• Workers’ Rights

    Posted on June 8, 2011 by pkc

    The term workers’ rights refers to the human rights relating to work and employment, as well as specific legal rights applying to workers. Labor relations, pay, benefits, safe working conditions, and the right to collective bargaining.

    ‘Progress’, a poem by Lisa J. Parker

    Posted on September 7, 2012 by pkc

    …on the human effects of coal mining and other resource extraction industries: Progress In a ton of black gold boring through the fatness of the Blue Ridge on the Clinchfield freight lines, three generations are trapped. The first generation talks … more →

    Posted in Air, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Resource Extraction, Shale gas, Workers' Rights |

    What Part Is Labor Playing in the Transition?

    Posted on May 7, 2012 by pkc

    Working class. Ahhh. To someone steeped in the leftist lingo freely expressed in the New York City of the 1960s, with its peace, civil rights, labor, and leftist activism, it’s refreshing to hear such culturally repressed language out in the … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Agriculture, Building Community, Cooperatives, Corporate Personhood, Economic Justice, Going Local, Local Businesses, Social Justice, Transitions, Workers' Rights, working class |

    MLK’s Final Speech

    Posted on January 20, 2012 by pkc

    I Have Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King, Jr. April 3, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee “Thank you very kindly, my friends. As I listened to Ralph Abernathy in his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Civil Liberties, Community – Empowerment, Democracy, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Human Rights, Minority Rights, Nonviolence, Workers' Rights | Tagged

    Fair Trade links & resources

    Posted on January 14, 2012 by pkc

    Reliable sources for information on authentic Fair Trade Reports & News Stories: Why Your Morning Coffee Could Be the Product of Child Labor (Faster Times, November 2011) Combating Slavery in Coffee and Chocolate Production, by Jeff Nall (Toward Freedom, January … more →

    Posted in Economic Justice, Fair Trade, Human Rights, Stewardship, Sustainable Growing, Workers' Rights |

    Chocolate: The Bitter Truth

    Posted on January 14, 2012 by pkc

    Fair Trade isn’t just about coffee. Many commodities are subject to abuse by large trading corporations and large growers. Coffee is perhaps the largest volume, but tea, chocolate, sugar, bananas, and many others are also important. Chocolate is subject not … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Civil Liberties, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Fair Trade, Human Rights, Industrial Food Production, Sustainable Growing, The World, Workers' Rights |

    Support Authentic Fair Trade

    Posted on January 8, 2012 by pkc

    Join with Us to Support Authentic Fair Trade by Phyllis Robinson – Small Farmers, Big Change, January 7, 2012 Deep controversies in the Fair Trade movement have been simmering over the past decade. Today, the situation has reached a boiling … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Cooperatives, Economic Justice, Economy, Business, & Money, Fair Trade, Sustainability & Business, Workers' Rights |

    Occupy Wall Street’s Moral Ground

    Posted on November 5, 2011 by pkc

    By Kathleen Moore in Yes! Magazine, November 1, 2011] Much of the Occupy movement’s power comes from a simple moral message: It’s wrong to wreck the world. It’s wrong to wreck the health and hopes of others. The Occupy Wall … more →

    Posted in Advocacy & Activism, Banking & Financial, Community – Government & Rights, Community Rights, Environmental Justice, Fair Trade, Minority Rights, Workers' Rights |

    Campus Food – Is it sustainable & Healthy?

    Posted on August 6, 2011 by Peter Crownfield

    Campus dining services, like other institutional food-service operations, prepare large volumes of food every day, most of it the product of the industrialized food system. It is not grown sustainably, it undermines your health, destroys the natural ecosystems, and is … more →

    Posted in Campus Sustainability, Environmental Health, Fair Trade, Food, Food for Health, Industrial Food Production, Sustainable Growing, Waste, Workers' Rights |

    Earth Charter

    Posted on June 11, 2011 by pkc

    The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for … more →

    Posted in Building Community, Community – Empowerment, Community – Government & Rights, Community Rights, Conservation, Demand Reduction, Discrimination, Environment & Ecosystems, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Fair Trade, Food, Human Rights, Justice System, Learning & Schools, Migration, Nonviolence, Precautionary Principle, Production For Need, Stewardship, Sustainability Education, Sustainabilty & Health, Systemic Approaches, Violence Against Women, Workers' Rights |