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...
View ArticleWorkers 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...
View ArticleShopping 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...
View ArticleReform 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...
View ArticleSafety 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)...
View ArticlePayday 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...
View ArticleNorth 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...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleWise 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...
View ArticleImproving 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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