interfaith worker justice

Politics/LawSeptember 7, 2009

Want to Love Your Neighbor? Pay Fair Wages

By Kim Bobo

On this Labor Day, consider the results of a new report that reveals the pervasiveness of wage theft in the United States: from less-than-minimum wage pay to unpaid overtime to the refusal of meal breaks, many workers are being matter-of-factly robbed.

Politics/LawJune 12, 2009

Dispatches from the Workplace: Bishops Lead the Cry to Stop Workplace Raids

By Kim Bobo

Religious leaders have joined the protest against workplace raids, urging the government to implement a rational and humane approach to immigration reform.

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.@WillieFrancois3: "The future of our communities, democracy, & humanness can no longer sustain the death-making institutionalism so intimately associated with the American vocation of policing, profoundly soaked in racism, classism, & abuse of power." https://t.co/Zb65crkec2

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"CPAC is now the venue where calls for violence are made, either alongside or else by, the power brokers of the Republican Party; where far-right ideas are laundered into the mainstream," writes @tlecaque: https://t.co/MBljsa2Vqj

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- 2 days ago

"If Republicans who supposedly support LGBTQ nondiscrimination really cared about protecting the rights, liberties, & equalities of queer Americans, they would work to rein in & reform their own party—or, failing to do so, abandon it," writes @C_Stroop: https://t.co/K4r8rmQ7ja

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