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Globalization & the Economy (trade, debt, economic justice, Jubilee, living wage, labor/ unions, urbanization, poverty, consumption) Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras: a tri-national coalition of religious, labor, environmental, Latino, and womens organizations who support worker and community struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice in the maquiladora industry in Northern Mexico: www.coalitionforjustice.net Episcopal Urban Caucus: a network of mainly Episcopal clergy and lay people dedicated to urban ministry. EUC has been the primary advocacy group within the Episcopal Church, USA for anti-racism education and ministry, and holds an annual assembly that brings together urban activists from around the church for networking and strategizing: www.episcopalurbancaucus.org Jubilee USA Network: continuing the work of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, this network works to achieve definitive debt cancellation for impoverished nations around the world. Recognizing that many of these debts are unpayable and exact a great social and environmental toll, the campaign works for debt cancellation that is not conditioned on policy reforms that perpetuate or deepen poverty or environmental degradation: www.j2000usa.org Religious Working Group on the IMF and World Bank: people of faith argue that over the past 50 years the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have done too much damage to developing nations, and that these institutions must be changed or eliminated: www.religiouswg.org Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community: UUJEC aims to focus that denomination's attention and power toward effecting a sustainable network of local and regional initiatives for systemic economic change: www.pitt.edu/~hirtle/uujec.html United for a Fair Economy: a "movement support" organization that provides media capacity, face-to-face economic literacy education, and training resources to organizations and individuals who work to address the widening income and asset gap in the US. UFEs work is grounded in the belief that our country would be a far more democratic, prosperous, and caring community if we narrowed the vast gap between the very wealthy and everyone else: www.ufenet.org |