The following is the first in a series of Poverty Initiative Poverty Scholars profiles that will highlight some of the amazing leaders that are working to build a movement to end poverty. Colleen is asking what it means to be a person of faith in a world in economic crisis. She believes that Christians are [...]
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Poverty Scholars Document Smiley / West Poverty Tour
Poverty Scholar organization Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) recently helped to document The Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience with Tavis Smiley and Cornell West. The tour began in Minnesota made its way through Chicago, Detroit, West Virginia, and ended in Memphis, Tennessee on August 12. The tour made stops in urban and rural areas to [...]
Poverty Scholar Profiles: Jeff Mansfield – ROC-NY
Union alumnus and Poverty Initiative Poverty Scholar Jeff Mansfield gives an update on his work with Restaurant Opportunity Center of New York (ROC-NY) and their current campaign against the troubling labor practices of Mario Batalli and his Del Posto restaurant in Chelsea. Jeff also reflects on his faith and the ways it connects to his [...]
Poverty Scholar Christine Lewis on Colbert Report
Domestic Workers United, founded in 2000, is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all. They have a dream that one day, all work will be valued equally. [...]
About “A New & Unsettling Force”
Martin Luther King Jr. saw the reality of millions of poor and disposed living in this country and world as a contradiction of God’s will and Jesus’ ministry. For King it was also a fundamental corruption of US society’s founding principles. King believed that the poor, whether they are white, black, brown, young, old, urban, [...]