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Convention for the Common Good Materials

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Order/Download Convention Documents

• Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns Voters Guide
• Sisters of Mercy Voters Guide
• Order bulk quantities online

• Download the Platform for the Common Good (pdf format)
• Download the 2008 Candidates' Positions Chart (pdf format)
• Platform Summary (pdf format)
• Platform en Espanol(pdf format)
• Platform Summary en Espanol (pdf format)
• Dr. Shawn Copeland's Address to the Convention: "Who Will Live the Common Human Good?" (pdf format)
• Breakout Session Statements
• Trade and the Global Common Good
  1. Trade Deficit Chart
  2. NAFTA Memo
  3. Mexico Trade
  4. H. R. 169, the “Balancing Trade Act of 2007”
  5. H. RES. 336
• Advancing the Moral Framing of Healthcare Reform (PowerPoint)

Ordering Tapes/Recordings of the Convention

To order tapes/recordings from the Convention, you can use this order form and contact:
Gem Tapes
1220 Broadway, Suite 1103
Lubbock, Texas 79401
www.gemtapes.com
gemtapes@yahoo.com
806-797-9608

Photo Gallery from the Convention

Click here to view a photo gallery from the Convention.

News Center

• Maryknoll's Voices of Our World program profiling Vote the Common Good (including an excerpt from the Convention of Rep. Marcy Kaptur's live remarks on Iraq
• "CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE GROUPS LAUNCH CAMPAIGN FOR THE COMMON GOOD": July 17, 2008, Post-Convention Press release
• Convention PowerPoint Slides
• Elected Officials Engagement PowerPoint Presentation
• Platform Affirmation PowerPoint Presentation
• Advancing the Moral Framing of Healthcare Reform PowerPoint Presentation
• "FAITH, POLITICS AND THE COMMON GOOD DRAW CATHOLICS TO NATIONAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA": Press release about the Convention
• "A NATION FOR ALL: How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America From the Politics of Division": Press release about book launch

Clips

• 8/4/08: "New groups add broader Catholic views to politics"~ National Catholic Reporter
• 7/29/08: "A Tale of Two Voting Guides"~ America Magazine
• 7/24/08: "New steps taken in Catholic social justice voting"~ The Monitor (Diocese of Trenton)
• 7/17/08: "Common good gets boost from Catholic gathering"~ National Catholic Reporter
• 7/17/08: "Convention for Common Good held in Philadelphia"~ Catholic Standard & Times
• 7/11/08: "Catholics to examine political, social issues"~ Cincinnati Enquirer