Wage Theft in America: Why Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid
A leading worker justice organizer writes a book on how and why employers are stealing from the workforce, to the tune of billions every year.
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Creating Together: The Power of Social Capital
We complain about something like the health care debacle, but look at how much sheer force has to be arrayed against progressive causes. Maybe we’ve been looking at things all wrong…
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King Dares Us To Imagine a Better World
For King, the challenges of a dawning age required a recognition that globalization had produced what he called a geographical togetherness and that this togetherness very much needed a spiritual grounding.
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Indians v. The US Department of the Interior, Or, The Horse Who Couldn’t Read
This week brought a proposed $3.4 billion settlement to a little known class action suit against the US Department of the Interior on behalf of over 300,000 Indians. Our writer tells how his family history dovetails with the tragic story behind this lawsuit.
Read MoreDefending the Helpless: New Bible Highlights Poverty and Justice
In the Bible, God has a preference for the poor and outcast, but this message is lost on many contemporary readers. A new edition seeks to remedy this ignorance, even as it turns a tidy profit for the publisher.
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Resisting the “New Normal” of Parasitic Capitalism in the Two Americas: The Religious Imperative
In a time when “food insecurity” is used as a euphemism for hunger, religious leaders cannot be silent—or turn a deaf ear.
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The Unbelieving Future of Christian Faith
Adherence to doctrine has long been a marker of faith among Christians. But what do the creeds and fine distinctions of theological argument have to do with commitment to justice?
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Why David Sometimes Wins: What We Must Learn From Cesar Chavez
A new book by veteran organizer Marshall Ganz tells the sometimes triumphant, sometimes cautionary tale of the rise and fall of Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement. While the story of the movement’s successes is well known, the reasons for its decline are more mysterious—until now.
Read MoreScrew Pragmatism!
When compromise at all costs is the rule, and anyone who wants to help the poor is labeled a radical, it’s time to quit looking for middle ground.
Read MoreBearing Witness: From Tiananmen to Tehran
On the twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen square protests, we are watching another struggle for justice on the streets of Tehran. And we remember the words of Dr. King: “No lie can live forever.”
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