This book review was shared by Jan Resseger, Minister for Public Education of the United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries and chair of the National Council of Churches Public Education and Literacy committee. I was up late last night reading Berkeley professor, David Kirp’s new book about school reform in Union City, New […]
Building Opportunity Through Affordable Housing for All: Fighting Poverty with Faith National Event 2012
Every year, the National Council of Churches joins with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Catholic Charities, the Islamic Society of North America, and dozens of other faith-based organizations to sponsor the Fighting Poverty with Faith mobilization. For 2012, the mobilization theme was “Building Opportunity through Affordable Housing for All.” Leaders from national faith-based organizations […]
Join us for a Food Justice Webinar Thursday March 15 at 1:00pm ET
Last week, I was fortunate to have been invited to fast for six days with farmworkers seeking a decent wage and livable working conditions. It is a scandal that the very workers who pick 80 percent of the tomatoes consumed in the United States often have difficulty feeding their own families. Please join World Council […]
Fast for Fair Food Lenten Reflection by Bernice Powell Jackson of the World Council of Churches
“As we begin the season of Lent… …it’s easy in our increasingly secular world to ignore it or in the world of superficial piety to privatize it. But the word from God spoken by the prophet Isaiah brings a different message. Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, […]
Princess and the Pea, Publix and the Penny
Media covering the Fair Food Fast ask us, “How do you respond to Publix’s offer to “Put the penny in the cost and we’ll gladly pay it”? Publix’s statement is that they respond to market forces, and: “our policy is not to get involved in labor disputes.” The extraordinary change in the relationship between growers […]
Ed Crenshaw, it’s time.
Ed Crenshaw won’t talk to farmworkers. He’s the CEO of Publix, the largest grocery store chain in the Southeast. The Coalition of Immokolee Workers has had remarkable success in a long struggle for justice for farmworkers. Yum Brands (2005), McDonalds (2007), Burger King (2008), Subway (2008), Whole Foods (2008), Aramark (2010), and most recently Trader […]
Work and Pray for a Faithful Budget
An interfaith coalition has been holding daily prayer vigils since July 11th to protect federal programs that serve people living in poverty. This coalition has formed the “Faithful Budget” campaign. Click here for worship, action, and news clip resources from the campaign. Faith leaders met with President Obama to ask him to protect “the least […]
