Let Justice Roll in the News

Jun 29 2009 Arkansas Peace, Justice and Environment Project
6th Annual Arkansas Peace & Justice Heroes Banquet
Sponsored by: Omni Center for Peace, Justice and Ecology, July 11, 5:30 pm, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 224 North East Street,...
May 1 2009
"Let Justice Roll's state-level successes in 2006 convinced us that we could succeed in Kansas, too. And we hope that others, elsewhere, will draw similar conclusions from our success. It might seem, at first glance,...
Talking Points edited by Carolyn M. Brown
Apr 1 2009 Black Enterprise
Raising the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour in 2010 is the latest campaign by Let Justice Roll, a national coalition of religious leaders, community activists, and business organizations. The federal minimum wage--enacted in 1938--increased...
Holly Sklar
Feb 13 2009 Distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service

In today's mad world, underpaid workers are bailing out banks and corporations run by overpaid, undertaxed bosses who milked their companies and our country like cash cows.

While workers across America were losing jobs, homes and health...

Jan 29 2009 Sun Reporter
 

Washington, DC - The leaders of 11 denominations and national faith organizations are among the inaugural...

Jan 25 2009 UUA.org
The sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Nashua, NH, was packed and you could feel the excitement in the air. Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA...
Linda Green
Jan 16 2009 United Methodist News Service
Faith leaders across the United States have joined a national effort to increase the federal minimum wage to $10 by 2010.

The United Methodist Board of Church and Society is among a group representing 11 denominations and national faith...

Joe Bjordal
Jan 15 2009 Episcopal News Service
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has joined with leaders of 15 denominations and national faith organizations as an inaugural signer of a...
Rev. William G. Sinkford
Jan 14 2009 CommonDreams.org
On March 18, 1968, two weeks before his murder, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. told striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., "It is criminal to have people working on a full-time basis getting part-time income." He said, "A living wage should...