Podcasts about interfaith worker justice

Erik J. Olson talks to Robert E. DeRose, II, the Managing Partner at Barkan Meizlish DeRose Cox, LLP in Ohio. Bob has dedicated his time and practice to pursuing the rights of workers, as displayed by serving on the executive committee of the Columbus Jobs with Justice and was formerly the President of the Greater Columbus Workers Rights Board. He has also served on the National Board of Directors for Interfaith Worker Justice, based in Chicago. He is also the former president of the Workers Injury Law and Advocacy Group (WILG), which is a national organization of lawyers based in Washington, D.C. committed to representing workers and their families. Further, he was formerly the president of the Ohio Association for Justice and a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and participates in the AAJ Leaders Forum. He is a co-author of 2005-2006 Ohio Workers Compensation Law, a Practice Guide, which is used by many of his colleagues in their Ohio Workers Compensation practices. Learn from his expertise and what trends are helping grow his firm on this episode of The Managing Partners Podcast! —- Array Digital provides bold marketing that helps managing partners grow their law firms. arraylaw.com Follow us on Instagram: @array.digital Follow us on Twitter: @thisisarray Call us for a FREE digital marketing review: 757-333-3021 SUBSCRIBE to The Managing Partners Podcast for conversations with the nation's top attorneys.

Michael Livingston, interim senior minister at Riverside Church in New York City, talks with Word&Way President Brian Kaylor about the history of Riverside and what it has been like to lead that congregation. He also discusses his time with Interfaith Worker Justice and the National Council of Churches.  Note: Don't forget to check out our subscriber e-newsletter A Public Witness that helps you make sense of faith, culture, and politics.

Support the show: Patreon l Glow l Episode Transcript  l Survey What is it for the church to speak something that is prophetic to the plights of social justice and immigration? How do we migrate this tense topic full of politics? Guest Bio: Rev. Alexia Salvatierra is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the coauthor of Faith-Rooted Organizing. She also serves as a consultant for a variety of organizations, including World Vision USA/World Vision International/Women of Vision, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, the Christian Community Development Association the Womens’ Donor Network, Auburn Theological Seminary, Interfaith Worker Justice, PICO, and Sojourners. Alexia is adjunct faculty at the New York Theological Seminary and Biola University, and she was the executive director of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) for over eleven years. Guest Music by Christa Wells Tracks include: Hold This House Up, Holy Ground, Velveteen You can also find all the musical selections from all our episodes on our Spotify Playlist.  Check out all the things over at the store...it's a great way to support the show www.canisaythisatchurch.com/store What are you waiting for; consider becoming a Patreon supporter of the show. You'll have access to many perks as well as guaranteeing the future of these conversations; even $1/Month goes so far as this show is 100% listener supported.  Follow the show: https://www.facebook.com/CanISayThisAtChurch/ https://twitter.com/cistacpodcast https://www.canisaythisatchurch.com/

A Conversation With Laura Barrett of Interfaith Worker Justice

This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer returns from the Slow Meat Conference with a new friend and guest, Joe Oliva, who has plenty of insight to share on the show! Jose Oliva is Co-Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance after starting as the Associate Director from August 2013 to December 2014. He is from Xelaju, Guatemala. Jose founded the Chicago Interfaith Workers’ Center in 2001 and then became the Coordinator of Interfaith Worker Justice’s National Workers’ Centers Network. In 2008 he went on to run the Center for Community Change’s worker justice program. From 2009-2014, Jose held a number of leadership roles at Alliance member Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, the national organization of restaurant workers. He also served as Board Chair of the FCWA Board of Directors from 2010-2012. He is a member of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “We see food as the central component of society – it’s what makes us as individuals go and what makes the world go round.” [04:00] “Good food is good food everywhere – it’s not going to change.” [17:00] “25% of all the groceries sold in the United States are sold at Wall-Mart.” [20:00] “As long as there is a draw in this country for work – people will come here. That’s the reality.” [30:00] –Jose Oliva on What Doesn’t Kill You

This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer returns from the Slow Meat Conference with a new friend and guest, Joe Oliva, who has plenty of insight to share on the show! Jose Oliva is Co-Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance after starting as the Associate Director from August 2013 to December 2014. He is from Xelaju, Guatemala. Jose founded the Chicago Interfaith Workers’ Center in 2001 and then became the Coordinator of Interfaith Worker Justice’s National Workers’ Centers Network. In 2008 he went on to run the Center for Community Change’s worker justice program. From 2009-2014, Jose held a number of leadership roles at Alliance member Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, the national organization of restaurant workers. He also served as Board Chair of the FCWA Board of Directors from 2010-2012. He is a member of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council. This program was brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery. “We see food as the central component of society – it’s what makes us as individuals go and what makes the world go round.” [04:00] “Good food is good food everywhere – it’s not going to change.” [17:00] “25% of all the groceries sold in the United States are sold at Wall-Mart.” [20:00] “As long as there is a draw in this country for work – people will come here. That’s the reality.” [30:00] –Jose Oliva on What Doesn’t Kill You

It took 40 years to build ACORN, the national community organization which at its peak had more than half a million members.  But it took just a few months to bring it down.  Now, local organizers are trying to rebuild from the ground up, while not forgetting the lessons they learned.*  *On this edition, the assassination of ACORN.  And a look at how the groups' absence is affecting elections, poverty, and the continuing housing crisis? Special thanks to Demos, and to Race, Poverty & the Environment. Featuring: *Steve Kest, *former ACORN executive director*; John Atlas, *author of *‘Seeds of Change', *the *Story of ACORN*, *America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Organizing Group;** **Annie McKinzie & Bill Chorneau*, former ACORN Oakland members; *Bertha Lewis*, former ACORN CEO and chief organizer; *Morris Hilter,* *Denise Hilton, Travis*, ACORN Tampa members; *John McCain*, US Senator; *Ina Gutierrez*, Interfaith Worker Justice deputy director of operations; *Tasha Alberty, *Oakland homeowner facing foreclosure*; Martha Daniels, *Oakland ACORN organizer;* Vivian Richardson, *San Francisco homeowner facing foreclosure*; Grace Martinez, *San Francisco ACCE community organizer;* Nealie Yarbrough, Ian Haddow*, San Francisco ACCE members. For More Information: Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) www.calorganize.org Texas Organizing Project www.organizetexas.org/ Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment www.organizemo.org/ New England United for Justice www.neunited4justice.org/ John Atlas http://open.salon.com/blog/john_atlas Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group by John Atlas http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/387/seeds-of-change The People Shall Rule: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/354/the-people-shall-rule Demos http://www.demos.org/ Race, Poverty and the Environment http://urbanhabitat.org/rpe Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog http://chieforganizer.org/ Interfaith Worker Justice www.iwj.org/ Articles/Blogs/Videos/Audio:  The fall of ACORN: A timeline – The Week http://theweek.com/article/index/200161/the-fall-of-acorn-a-timeline Can Obama Win Without ACORN? – Molly Ball – The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/can-obama-win-without-acorn/262761/ Who Needs ACORN? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/2012/08/obama_get_out_the_vote_efforts_how_the_voter_participation_center_is_picking_up_where_acorn_left_off_.single.html Anti-ACORN Messages Threaten Staff and Obama (AUDIO) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/anti-acorn-messages-threa_b_136222.html Transcript of Interview with Bertha Lewis http://urbanhabitat.org/node/6926 The post Making Contact – COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1) ENCORE EDITION appeared first on KPFA.

"What's New?!"Happy New Year! This is the beginning of the church year -which begins with the season of Advent - filled with the anticipation of thearrival of Christ into the world. He came and He comes again - wheneverwe invite Him. Even the saints like to have an invitation - a welcome.But Jesus was rejected while still in the womb - the Inn was fullyou remember - and his mother delivered him in the stable - among thefriendly animals. Animals know so much more than we give them creditfor - witness the animals who went to higher ground before the gigantictsunami. How does my god know to go which day to go the door to waitfor the maid to come - whom she loves dearly because Elsa stays homeand keeps her company all day, whereas I run off to church. How do theswallows find Capistrano? How do pengins know where to march to?In this world of ours, there's a miracle around every corner -something new to be discovered - something different to understand.Jesus was something new - something different - we've neverquite gotten used to him. That's because He was none other than Godwalking among us - God with us - Emanuel! - which is what Emanualmeans - God with us! Because we as mankind never got ourselves toGod, there was only one solution - God had to come to us.We tried to be faithful. We tried our best to follow God's laws aswe understood them, but we failed.We poured over the sacred books seeking a better understandingof God, but things there seemed so strange and incomprehensible.We built a grand temple in the hope of containing God, a housegrand enough for God to reside in, but following the rituals of the templewas a pale substitute for the living God.We listened to the prophets and nodded in assent to their demands.But agreeing with them was one thing: obeying them was another.So many of our attempts to get close to God, to walk with God,to obey God only seemed to drive us further from God. What could wedo?The answer is that we could do nothing. Something had to bedone for us. We could not come to God, so God came to us.Advent means, that caught in our old ways, following ouraccustomed scripts, going through the motions, God came to us. Godreached out to us, despite the futility of our groping toward him, Godembraced us, stood beside us, and became one with us.It's that closeness that Communion accomplishes for us if we havethe eye to see the miracle in the common place.Before His physical departure from the Earth, Jesus chose elementsby which we could remember him - two things that were at every meal -bread and wine. He gave symbolic meaning to each - a symbol of hisPresence.Shortly after my father died, I found my mother sitting sadly in achair, holding my father's shoes. They weren't his dress shoes - but hiswork shoes which didn't smell all that great from years of sweaty use - butstill they were the perfect symbol of the dedicated, hardworking husbandand father he was - who was up before light and finishing after dark tosupport a family of nine children.What would symbolize you? What is the essence of who you arethat could be capsulized into a symbol?And how does that essence relate to the fierce directions given usin the Scripture today "We should prepare ourselves to fight evil withthe weapons that belong to the light."The weapons that belong to the light are the principles of Jesusthat are the only things powerful enough make it possible for our world tosurvive - for the earth to be preserved and for wars to cease that couldcause the end of civilization. God doesn't have to bring the end of time,we're doing a very good job of heading for it entirely on our own.When I was a kid, we were always crying wolf - saying there wasa crisis when there was none. Once such day, my next older brothershouted out from the old swimmin' hole that he was drowning. His criesof "Help - Help, I'm drowning" didn't fool any of us. He went under. Wewaited eagerly for him to come back up. The only problem - He didn't!He WAS drowning - whereupon a family member dived in, found himbelow the surface, and dragged him to shore - where he coughed up a lotof water, came to and continued on in the land of the living.But he had been through quite an experience. Thinking he wasgoing to meet his Maker, he said that every mean and terrible thing thathe had ever done passed through his mind in an instant. God didn't haveto judge him, he had already judged himself.God doesn't have to bring an end to things...we're doing a fine jobof that ourselves....thinking we can war our way to piece - totally oppositeto what Jesus said - totally foreign to the way He was in the world.As we come to the communion table today, our task is simple, toexamine ourselves to see how like the Christ we have become or need tobecome - to ask how concerned we are about His Church, His Kingdom,His reign as King of Kings - how involved are we in the things of theSpirit.It is likely that instead, we have fallen prey to what our culturecalls us to become. A recent church of England report puts it this way:"Where previous generations found their identity in what theyproduced, we now find our identity in what we consume. "Never at any funeral have I said, He consumed four luxury cars,to luxury homes and half of the Forge's wine list. Spiritually, those thingswon't get us anywhere - they certainly don't stop wars or produce peace.Jesus gives us the bread and wine to remember him by, but for thepurpose of remembering that we are his hands and feet in the world toaccomplish His tasks. He walks beside us hoping to see us doing thingsthat will make a difference.The Church just sent a thousand dollars from our BenevolenceBudget to help keep the Interfaith Worker Justice organization going -giving them money to help others who earn very little to get a living wage- pressuring Burger King, Taco Bell and others on behalf of the tomatopickers who earn very little - or pressuring universities and housingcommunities to pay their groundskeepers a living wage. They know intheir hearts to help these people is to make a difference where it countsmost - with whom it counts most.So what is the symbol by which you will be remembered ? -perhaps a sweaty shirt from the latest march for worker's wages: or fromserving on the food line at the church's luncheon for the homeless, or aparking stub from one of the many committee meetings you have attendedto further the work of your church, your service club or arts organization."I say this because you know that we live in an important time,Yes, it is now time for you to wake up from your sleep. Our salvationis nearer now than when we first believed. The night is almostfinished." (Romans 13:11.)Into the darkness, the Christ of Light appears - again this advent.Showing us how Life is to be done and won. - to give us anothr chance.He came not to consume but to give - to love - to share. That's why we'rehere - to learn to walk in that light, to live in that light.The animals in the stable intuitively understood that. So must we.In closing, I'd like to share A Dog's Purpose, from a 4 year old.Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten year-oldIrish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog's owners, Ron, his wife, Lisa,and their little boy, Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they werehoping for a miracle.I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told thefamily we couldn't do anything for Belker, and offered to perform theeuthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home.As we made the arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thoughtit would be goof for four-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. Theyfelt as though Shane might learn something from the experience.The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker'sfamily surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for thelast time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on.Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away. The littleboy seemed to accept Belker's transition without any difficulty or confusion.We sat together for a while after Belker's death, wondering aloudabout the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives.Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, "I know why."Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next stunnedme. I'd never heard a more comforting explanation.He said, "People are born so that they can learn how to livea good life - like loving everybody all the time and being nice right?"The four year old continued, "Well, dogs already know how to dothat, so they don't have to stay as long."LIVE SIMPLY. LOVE GENEROUSLY. CARE DEEPLY.SPEAK KINDLY. LEAVE THE REST TO GOD. MAKE YOUR LIFEA SYMBOL OF THE LIFE OF CHRIST. Now.....Come, dance in delight because love has comeand the wine of celebration is being pouredCome, lift up your heartsto receive the abundance that waits for usfor the Christ is present.and we touch the life of God.Come to this sacred table, not because you must, but becauseyou may..... .Communion Meditation Notes(Not edited nor proofed)The Rev. Dr. Garth R. Thompson Pastor, M.B. Community ChurchA sermon (or meditation) is a simple truth told by someone whobelieves it to people he knows and loves (Phillips Brooks)December 2, 2007 10:30 a, m.May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our heartsbe acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, our strength and our redeemer.http://feeds.feedburner.com/MiamiBeachCommunityChurch