[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":173},["ShallowReactive",2],{"activist-section-sister-angelina-martz-scic-creating-change-lessons-skills-and-advice":3,"activist-sister-angelina-martz-scic":109},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":94,"extension":101,"meta":102,"navigation":103,"oldPath":104,"path":105,"seo":106,"stem":107,"__hash__":108},"activistSections\u002Factivists\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic\u002F03.creating-change-lessons-skills-and-advice.md","Creating Change: Lessons, Skills and Advice",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":93},"minimark",[9,14,24,31,35,52,56,61,65,70],[10,11,13],"h2",{"id":12},"lessons","Lessons",[15,16,17,21],"ul",{},[18,19,20],"li",{},"The media has great power, and it is very difficult to get media on your side. \"When we have an event, they just don't come.\"",[18,22,23],{},"People power as well as corporate power can be effective. It's important to have people who are affected by the issue to be part of action. Get them involved!",[25,26,27],"blockquote",{},[28,29,30],"p",{},"In terms of involving those who are most affected by an issue, the Urban Core Support Network (UCSN) does this very well by empowering persons living in poverty. I am a member of UCSN and many members live in poverty—they are the ones who know what is needed and are listened to. UCSN Coordinator Brenda Murphy is an expert in this regard, recognized for generously using her gifts for the good of those who are socially and economically disadvantaged.",[10,32,34],{"id":33},"skills","Skills",[15,36,37,40,43,46,49],{},[18,38,39],{},"You need to have skill in forging interpersonal relationships. You have to be able to be gentle and not express the anger that you feel—that's difficult, but important.",[18,41,42],{},"You must be able to analyze situations with an open mind. If you come in thinking you know what you're going to do and what the answer is, you're finished. You have to search for the truth, and sometimes it is hidden.",[18,44,45],{},"You need a terrific ability to stick to the issue, to be dedicated, to persevere in spite of everything.",[18,47,48],{},"You need to be able to work with others as a team with colleagues. It takes special skills to create a team.",[18,50,51],{},"You have to have enthusiasm for the issues, or you can't sustain yourself.",[10,53,55],{"id":54},"what-helps","What helps",[25,57,58],{},[28,59,60],{},"The scriptures, the life of Jesus, my congregation, and my focus on the issue have all sustained and motivated me. Broadening my horizons by attending conferences and protests, seeking information beyond the borders of the province and Canada, rubbing shoulders with dedicated activists—all have taught me a great deal.",[10,62,64],{"id":63},"advice","Advice",[25,66,67],{},[28,68,69],{},"I think it was Martin Luther King Jr., another of my heroes, who said, \"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.\"",[15,71,72,75,78,81,84,87,90],{},[18,73,74],{},"\"We must work in the Lord's vineyard or the work will not be done. Someone once said, 'He has no hands but yours'—this is true and the work is important, but if we think we are in charge and results depend on us, we become frustrated and give up.\"",[18,76,77],{},"Believe in the power of every person to do something. \"When I was at the UN in 1999, then Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that there were two superpowers, the United States and civil society. He was speaking to the NGOs who were gathered for the Department of Public Information\u002FNon-Governmental Organizations (DPI\u002FNGO) Conference.\"",[18,79,80],{},"Even though you may not get results, learn to rejoice in the small victories: just do some little thing, value that and realize its importance, just as each person is important.",[18,82,83],{},"Keep on speaking out and don't give up regardless of poor results and setbacks. Sometimes the government just goes ahead and does what you don't want them to do, and that's when you keep speaking out.",[18,85,86],{},"Keep your expectations low. \"I have been told this many times by different people, and then whatever happens will be better than what you expected.\"",[18,88,89],{},"Keep on doing something even if it's only you doing it, because others will be moved to follow. Do not be afraid to let yourself be seen as active—attending rallies, meetings of justice groups, educational conferences. Walk the walk, don't just talk the talk—and be a witness!",[18,91,92],{},"Encourage others to become knowledgeable about the issues. Read Janice Harvey's weekly column in the Telegraph-Journal.",{"title":94,"searchDepth":95,"depth":95,"links":96},"",2,[97,98,99,100],{"id":12,"depth":95,"text":13},{"id":33,"depth":95,"text":34},{"id":54,"depth":95,"text":55},{"id":63,"depth":95,"text":64},"md",{},true,"\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic\u002Fcreating-change-lessons-skills-and-advice","\u002Factivists\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic\u002Fcreating-change-lessons-skills-and-advice",{"title":5,"description":94},"activists\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic\u002F03.creating-change-lessons-skills-and-advice","fCJuEsfPRBLofUX3LfBLGBpQZjMc_cok6PPnQgBFOH0",{"id":110,"title":111,"body":112,"description":116,"extension":101,"links":139,"meta":146,"navigation":103,"oldPath":147,"path":148,"pictures":149,"portrait":150,"portraitAlt":151,"province":152,"quote":153,"sections":154,"seo":169,"stem":170,"summary":171,"__hash__":172},"activists\u002Factivists\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic\u002Findex.md","Sister Angelina Martz, SCIC",{"type":7,"value":113,"toc":137},[114,117,120,123,126],[28,115,116],{},"The calm and beauty of the convent chapel contrasted sharply with Sr. Angie Martz's activism world outside that space. During a wide-ranging interview before the chapel visit, Liz Burge, as interviewer, followed many examples of Angie's thinking to better grasp the complex analytical threads that bind together her social justice work. What personal conviction; what sustained capacity for action!",[28,118,119],{},"Born in 1924, Angie began her life on a farm in Duhamel, Alberta, a hamlet 20 kilometres southwest of Camrose. Her early years included two older sisters and their parents, and then in 1933 their brother Ronald was adopted as an infant, bringing new life into their home. One of Angie's early memories is of the out-of-work men during the Depression who came to their farm looking for food and shelter. \"They were always treated with the greatest respect and given more than many would give,\" she recalled. One incident was formative for her: a man who had spent the night in their hayloft was leaving the barn the next morning when Angie's mother called out to ask him if he would like breakfast: \"The man cried,\" said Angie. The incident has stayed with her, recalling her parents' compassionate response to need that has informed Angie's lifelong regard for vulnerable people as \"very special.\"",[28,121,122],{},"Living in the country, Angie had occasion to meet the Sisters who taught catechism only in the summer, or from time to time at the Camrose Hospital. Yet at the early age of seven or eight, she knew that she would become \"one of them.\"",[28,124,125],{},"The family moved to Edmonton in 1940, where she met the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception (SCIC) who served in their parish. Angie says simply, \"I liked what I saw\"—and in January 1942, she and both of her sisters travelled to Saint John, New Brunswick, to enter the Novitiate. Nearly seven decades later, Angie says without hesitation, \"I have never looked back!\"",[28,127,128,129,136],{},"The religious congregation of the ",[130,131,135],"a",{"href":132,"rel":133},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.sistersofcharityic.com\u002F",[134],"nofollow","Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception"," was founded in 1854 in Saint John to care for the orphans left after the cholera epidemic. The Saint John congregation originated with the Sisters of Charity founded by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in 1809, the first new community of women religious in America, inspired in turn by the work of St. Vincent de Paul among the impoverished people of Paris in the seventeenth century. As the need arose, the Sisters expanded their ministry with the orphans in Saint John to include teaching, social work, and health care.",{"title":94,"searchDepth":95,"depth":95,"links":138},[],[140,143],{"url":141,"title":142},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.canadians.org\u002Fcampaignblog\u002F?p=2136","Sister Angie Martz receives Maude Barlow Award",{"url":144,"title":145},"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.canadaeast.com\u002Ffront\u002Farticle\u002F1410856","Example of Sr Angie speaking out: See \"No cheer in Osama's death\" letter",{},"\u002Fcontent\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic","\u002Factivists\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic",[],"\u002Fimages\u002Factivists\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic\u002Fportrait.jpg","Portrait of Angelina Martz.","New Brunswick","It's in my bones that you do what you can for someone who is worse off than you are.",[155,158,161,163,166],{"slug":156,"label":157},"forming-her-activism","Forming Her Activism",{"slug":159,"label":160},"practising-social-activism","Practising Social Activism",{"slug":162,"label":5},"creating-change-lessons-skills-and-advice",{"slug":164,"label":165},"highlights","Highlights",{"slug":167,"label":168},"last-words","Last Words",{"title":111,"description":116},"activists\u002Fsister-angelina-martz-scic\u002Findex","Sr. Angelina (Angie) Martz is known for her incisive public comments, especially in print media, on various matters of social justice near and far. Community development and social peace are inextricably linked, as Angie argues when she explains how societal dynamics work against better living conditions for those in need or act to waste or neglect precious natural resources.","SzLCLt8xlDBEkiBex8QfVTCvgtvXvLYqWVBQyC4TOVU",1789062652166]