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Priorities and the Jet that Ate the Budget

By Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate A recent article in Raleigh’s News and Observer focused on the F-35 jet. The American Friends Service Committee calls this weapon system the “plane that ate...

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Workers Deserve Dignity and Respect

By Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate Monday, September 7 is Labor Day when we should honor the workers in our community with dignity and respect. The Social Creed for the 21st century, a...

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Shopping with Meaning

By Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate Pope Francis has offered us a message encouraging us to actions that reflects a commitment to dignity and respect for all workers. As the Advent season...

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Reform Medicaid by Expanding It

Article by: Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate Remarks delivered on March 30 by Volunteer Program Associate Sandy Irving at the Raleigh public hearing on Medicaid reform. As Medicaid reform is...

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Safety is Imperative to Worker Justice

Article by: Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate Worker Memorial Day is April 28, a day when we remember workers who have lost their lives providing goods (buildings, roads, food, clothing, etc)...

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Payday Lending is Opposite Biblical Teaching

Article by: Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate “Don’t charge interest when you lend money to any of my people who are in need.” –Exodus 22:25 – Contemporary English Version Payday lending is a...

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North Carolina Passes a Decade with No Executions

Article by: Sandy Irving, Volunteer Program Associate Many in our state are celebrating 10 years of no executions and putting out a call for no more killings in our name.  Patrick O’Neil a leading...

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Do We Treat Workers as We Would Treat Jesus?

In this Easter season of the Christian church, we have just celebrated Resurrection Sunday and the joy we feel that Jesus overcame death.  However, my preacher, the Rev. Betty Connette of West...

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Wise Folks Build Their House on the Rock

Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice; who makes his neighbors work for nothing and does not give them their wages. Jeremiah 22:13 Everytime you shop it...

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Improving the State of North Carolina

“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees”~Isaiah 10:1 The North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) just finished its 2018 short session without passing legislation that...

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