Activism

Hot Tea and Union Organizing

Helene Slessarev 3-01-2000

Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), a faith-based organizing network in Baltimore, won the first municipal living wage ordinance in the country in 1994.

A Real House Party

Helene Slessarev 3-01-2000

The East Brooklyn Congregations (EBC) literally have rebuilt an entire community by securing the funding to erect 2,300 single family homes in a devastated section of Oceanhill-Brownsville...

Natural Born Allies

Pat McDonnell Twair 1-01-2000

Labor activists and people of faith rally around 'core values.'

Separate and Equal?

Chris Rice 1-01-2000

Are we only liberated from something or are we also liberated into something?

A Resurrection of Campus Activism

Holly Lebowitz Rossi 9-01-1999

From sit-ins against sweatshops to lobbying against religious persecution, many students today are proving themselves to be anything but apathetic.

A Youthful Voice for Justice

Celeste Kennel-Shank 5-01-1999

A 15-year-old activist fights against child abuse.

More Than Pickets and Prayer

Kim Bobo 5-01-1999

Fifteen ways to strengthen your congregation's justice ministry with workers.

Betcha Wonderin' How I Knew…

Jim Rice 11-01-1998

What if they gave a protest and nobody came? The organizer of a new Web site wants to make sure that doesn’t happen, and so has launched Protest.Net (www.