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DEBT RELIEF:
Jubilee 2000 USA
202-783-3566
www.jubileeusa.org
Jubilee USA Network is a national network of over 60 organizations including labor, churches, religious communities and institutions, AIDS activists, trade campaigners and over 9,000 individuals dedicated to working for a world free of debt for billions of people. Excellent educational resources are available. See also www.jubileesouth.org for the perspective of countries in the south, usually those suffering debt burdens.
FAIR TRADE:
Equal Exchange
www.equalexchange.com
EE is an organization of worker-owners promoting a food system based on honest partnerships between farmers and consumers, as well as fair trade standards, efficient business practices and cooperative principles. Consider purchasing Equal Exchange coffee for your church.
HOMELESSNESS:
National Coalition for the Homeless
202-737-6444
www.nationalhomeless.org
NCH is a national network of persons who are or have been homeless, advocates, service providers and others committed to ending homelessness in the United States through policy analysis and advocacy, public education, grassroots organizing and technical assistance.
LABOR/WORKERS' RIGHTS:
National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
773-728-8400
www.capwiz.com/nicwj
The National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice calls upon our religious values in order to educate, organize and mobilize the religious community in the U.S. on issues and campaigns that will improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for workers, especially low-wage workers.
SWEAT SHOPS:
National Mobilization Against Sweat Shops
www.nmass.org
The National Mobilization Against Sweat Shops is a membership association of working people fighting for their rights as workers. See their website for information on sweatshops, as well as current campaigns aimed at confronting exploitation of workers.
SEE ALSO: NONVIOLENCE/PEACE (Fellowship of Reconciliation, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom); HUNGER (Food First)
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