The United Workers Labor Day Prayer Breakfast Living Wages Hunger Strikers and allies stand for opening prayer delivered by Rev. Roger Powers of Light Street Presbyterian Church Photo: The United Workers Provided by The Poverty Initiative More photos like this one can be found in the book, A New and
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Taxi Workers’ Alliance Group Portrait Patrick Grugan Provided by The Poverty Initiative stained glass, oil paint, block print, 2008 More art like this one can be found in the book, A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s Poor People’s Campaign
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Winter, West Virginia Patrick Grugan Provided by The Poverty Initiative stained glass, oil paint, block and photo prints, 2008-09 More art like this one can be found in the book, A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign
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A Prayer for People 2008 by Francisca Cortes This prayer comes from the book edited by Chris Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, Prayers for the New Social Awakening: Inspired by the New Social Creed [Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008], 38–40, available from www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com. It is republished here with permission
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A Poem September 13, 2011 by Ariana Salazar-Newton The truth is it’s all about US— Our country and the white men on the American bucks. To them it is unintelligible that the borders crossed us; Still we’re the unwelcome guests, stray mutts. I think they can’t stand to look
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Practical Ideas for Taking Action [wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””]Economic injustice and the economic crisis can seem so expansive and complex that it is often hard to imagine any kind of action on our part that can make a difference. So let us take a step back and reflect strategically. What
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May 5, 2011 by Rev. Elisa Owen View article in PDF (optimal for printing) [wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””] “As for those who in the present age are rich … They are to do good, to be rich in good works, generous, and ready to share, thus storing up
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“Raising up generations of religious and community leaders committed to building a social movement to end poverty led by the poor.” HISTORY Founded in May 2004 by Union students in collaboration with seminary faculty, staff and community leaders, the Poverty Initiative was charged with the mission of raising up generations
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August 2011 (original 2009) by The Poverty Initiative and its Poverty Scholars Program, led by Willie Baptist, and including Charlene Sinclair (The following article is a compilation of excerpted texts taken from the book by The Poverty Initiative, A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
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September 1, 2011 by Dawan O. Buie Princeton Theological Seminary M.Div. Class of 2013 [wpcol_1half id=”” class=”” style=””] Summer is usually a time of relaxation from the cares of the world. The summer of 2011, however, was of an entirely different kind: it was no vacation from the
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