Walking the picket line in my clerical collar, along with security officers and other labor and religious leaders in the one day strike for healthcare for local security officers, was inspiring. By participating I exercised a public leadership role we as clergy have to represent a Church concerned about justice.

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Workers Interfaith Network and Centro De Derechos Laborales are proud to announce that our two organizations are joining together to build a more powerful movement for worker justice! CDL has worked closely with WIN since 2003. Late this summer, we nearly lost CDL when the Resource Center of the Americas closed. Now we have a chance to make sure that CDL’s work survives and thrives! We look forward to building something together that neither WIN nor CDL could build on its own.

We cannot make this new partnership succeed without you! [Read more →]

In October, I had the chance to speak at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in South Minneapolis. I started with an exercise to demonstrate how unequally income is distributed in the economy. I asked members of the congregation, “what’s wrong with this?” They had great answers.

Then I shared my problem: To me, the unequal distribution of income and power among workers in our economy violates the second commandment: You must love your neighbor as yourself. I then elaborated, borrowing from a religious leader who’s spent his whole life fighting poverty, who thinks of the second commandment this way: you should want for your neighbor what you want for yourself. [Read more →]