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Hotwire Blog Posts on Economic Justice
 

Workers' rights

October 16, 2006
Why Raise the Minimum Wage?

August 2, 2006
Laissez les Mauvais Temps Roulez -- Workers' Rights in New Orleans (by Cat Dodson, UUSC Economic Justice intern)

19 July 2006
Partnerships for Economic Justice (by Cat Dodson, UUSC Economic Justice intern)

April 26, 2006
Straw Huts and Worker Solidarity – Visiting the Bomas of Kenya

April 24, 2006
Kenya street vendors organize for economic justice

April 13, 2006
Treadmarks of the Oppression: Workers Rights Post-Katrina

February 6, 2006
Mississippi Poultry Workers Bridge Cross-Racial Solidarity

November 20, 2005
UUSC Hosts International Workers' Rights Delegation


Living wages

July 27, 2007

$2.65 is Peanuts ..."Raise the Wage" in Kansas! 

 

July 25, 2007

“Reality Check” on Minimum Wage

 

July 24, 2007

Expanding the Possible

 

January 30, 2007

Voters Do It. Business Leaders Do It. U.S. Senators . . .?

 

January 13, 2007 

Congress Should Tell Bush to Take a Hike

 

January 4, 2007

Day of Firsts

 

January 2, 2007

Do the Math

 

November 16, 2006

Let Justice Roll

 

November 9, 2006

From Moral Values to Moses

 

October 24, 2006

Wage Justice!

 

October 19, 2006

Why Raise the Minimum Wage?

August 3, 2006
America’s Workers Deserve a 'Clean' Minimum Wage Increase

August 7, 2006
A "Model Church" for Economic Justice

July 31 2006
Why is Wal-Mart Whining?

July 31, 2006
Living Wage Victory by Faith-Labor-Community Coalition in Chicago

June 24, 2006
Enterprising UUs: Public Witness on Living Wages in St. Louis (by Kevin Murray, UUSC director of advocacy and communications)

January 18, 2006
Honoring a Legacy, Fighting for a Living Wage (by Jeremy Nickel, UUSC events coordinator)

December 5, 2005
Victory in New Mexico for Living Wage Campaigns Everywhere (by Marty Scherstuhl, UUSC)

November 30, 2005
Faith-in-Action on Living Wages in the United States


Human rights and economic justice

October 17, 2006
Today is the United Nations' World Poverty Day

11 July 2006
The Economic Justice Program: UUSC from an Intern's Perspective

June 25, 2006
Economic Justice and Women's Rights at GA

March 6, 2006
My New Career: Social Activist, by Dan Moen (A UUSC volunteer leader on living wage activism in Colorado)

January 25, 2006
Radio: A Powerful Tool for Social Change

January 24, 2006
From Bean to Cup: Fair Trade and Human Rights

December 7, 2005
Economic Justice and Race: The South-North Connections

November 22, 2005
A Book You Probably Won't Find at Wal-Mart

July 30, 2005
Hope and Perseverance, Rabinal, Guatemala, July 27

July 26, 2005
Honoring Guatemalan History in Rabinal, July 26

July 24, 2005
Arrival in Guatemala