Globalization for the Common Good: An Interfaith Perspective
Eighth Annual Conference
“Globalization: The Challenge to America"
May 31 – June 4, 2009 • Loyola University, Chicago
The Chicago Declaration (2009)
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We honor the spirit of the native peoples, the Pottawattamie, who dwelled here long ago on wetlands that stretched between a generative river and a great lake, calling it Chikagu, or ‘Land of the Wild Onion’. We come together in the city of Chicago, an economic and cultural crossroads, which has been a center of US and international affairs from its inception in 1833. Our conference, meeting in the Land of Abraham Lincoln, has been inspired by the vision of a new President from Chicago, Barack Obama, and the real hope for a new alignment of the common good of the United States with that of the world. Since our last gathering in 2008, the world has changed significantly. We have entered into the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression.