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Upcoming To help reactivate the organization, please call the statewide Labor-Religion Coalition at 518/ 213-6000 ext. 6294. Questions? Former co-chair, Marv Mich is available to answer questions about the work of the Coalition: 585/ 262-7021. The Coalition moved to inactive status in Feb. 2006. Contact Metro Justice in Rochester for updates about active campaigns for economic justice. News For news of events from the 2006 FAST in Brockport, click here. Archives Opening of the Fast. In 2005 a soup supper followed by a 6:30 Program and Prayer Service was held at Mercy Outreach Center, 142 Webster Avenue, Rochester. Breaking of the Fast was a light lunch followed at12:30 by a Legislative Action at St. Joseph Neighborhood Center, 417 South Avenue, Rochester. Call 585/ 262-7021 for more information. Harvesting Justice Conference, held at the First Unitarian Church on Nov. 8, 2004, drew over 170 participants. It was a conference for members of the faith community, lay and ordained, who seek a deeper understanding of the issues confronting low-income workers. Please visit the Rural and Migrant Ministry web site or click here to see the schedule, workshop topics and more. [http://www.ruralmigrantministry.org/event110804.asp] At the November 6, 2003 meeting the RLRC elected a Board of Directors in accordance with their new by-laws. The RLRC is an affiliate of Jobs with Justice. Working Faith, the Rochester Labor-Religion Coalition Newsletter is available via e-mail. Contact Mike Roberts at mroberts@uniterrjb.org to subscribe. Working Faith seeks to help people of all religious traditions live out their economic justice missions knowlegably, effectively and locally. Toward that end, the newsletteerwill deliver actionable information on current struggles in the Greater Rochester Region as well as thoughtful commentary by experts on the frontlines of those events. Late
September 2003 activities in connection with the Immigrant
Worker Freedom Ride and local immigrant farmworkers occurred at at Nativity
Church in Brockport, NY and at Colgate Rochestar Crozer Divinity School and Guardian
Angels Church in Rochester. Sponsors of the rally, reception and dinner included
the Rochester Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the Rochester Labor-Religion Coalition,
CITA (Centro Independiente Trabajadores Agricolas), also known as the Independent
Farmworkers Center, Rural and Migrant Ministry and United Food and Commercial
Workers Union (UFCW) District 1. At the opening meal and ceremony for the Annual 40-hour Fast on March 12, 2003, Maria Tellez, the Coordinator of Farmworker Women's Institute spoke. The event was held at Lake Avenue Baptist Church in Rochester. A closing meal and ceremony was held at SEIU 200United on March 14. Thanks to all who made donations in support of those fasting. Their contributions will be used to work for economic justice for workers in Monroe County and for the Coalition's anti-sweatshop educational campaign. Kim Bobo of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice met with Coalition leaders in March 2002. Her presentation included information about joint campaign planning (unions polling members to identify their congregations and religious involvement early during union organizing efforts) as well as workers rights centers and involvement of students and teachers at seminaries. Lunch & Community Forum on Farmworker Justice was held on Dec. 10, 2002 at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. The Forum included direct testimony by Aspacio Alcantara to his experience as a migrant farmworker, information on the current conditions facing farmworkers in the Rochester region, and information about Biblical teachings that offer guidance on the subject. For an update on farmworker advocacy and other issues of interest to Rochester religious, labor and community leaders, see the May 2002 newsletter, available by clicking here. To join the Coalition, see the form included with the newsletter. The Coalition published its first e-mail newsletter in April 2002. It includes a calendar of social justice events and an article about an early morning action at the A& E bus company. Future editions will include labor and religion news that relate to social and economic justice, commentary by local labor and religious leaders and the calendar. The text of the newsletter is available by clicking here (without the photograph or the A & E letter). On the three-month anniversary of September 11, over 50 religious and lay leaders from Rochester's Labor-Religion Coalition participated in a moving pilgrimage to ground zero in the company of Rabbi Feinberg. Sweatfree Schools: Colleen Buckley, MSW intern coordinated the Rochester Labor-Religion Coalition's anti-sweatshop activities for the 2001-2002 school year. Living Wage: Three more Democrats were elected in Monroe Co. in November 2001, a boost for the county-level living wage campaign. Democratic candidates didn't make the living wage part of their campaigns, however.
Last Updated: 12/12/2006
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