1959 Highlander Way · New Market, TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424
e-mail: hrec@highlandercenter.org

Agricultural Missions
c/o National Council of Churches
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 850
New York, NY 10115
(212) 870-2554
E-mail: sbartlett@ag-missions.org

Agricultural Missions works to “follow the Biblical mandate and example of the ministry of Jesus Christ and work towards the creation of a sustainable society which is based on social and racial justice, indigenous and rural people's participation, a sound environment, peace, economic viability, gender equity and spiritual values.” Its mission is “to work in partnership with people of faith and conscience around the world to end poverty and injustice that affect rural communities.”

Equal Exchange Interfaith Program
http://www.equalexchange.com/interfaith/ifmaterials.html
50 United Drive
West Bridgewater, MA 02379
Phone: (774) 776-7400
Fax: (508) 587-0088

Equal Exchange is a coffee importing company based in Massachusetts that is committed to principles of fair trade in choosing coffees, paying farmers, and all aspects of the coffee industry. Their Interfaith program reaches out to faith-based communities. The website above contains bulletin inserts, action ideas, resolutions, and graphics for church newsletters and bulletins. You may also buy Equal Exchange coffee at http://www.equalexchange.com.

First Unitarian Church of San Jose Global Justice Action Group
http://www.sanjoseuu.org/fallseries/
160 North Third St.
San Jose, CA 95122
(408) 292-3858

First Unitarian’s Global Justice Action Group is one of many programs set up by their Social Justice Counsel. The website above has an excellent list of resources about the Free Trade Area of the Americas; globalization and democracy; globalization, farming and food; sweatshops, labor and fair trade; debt; and resistance to corporate-controlled globalization.

Jubilee South
http://www.jubileesouth.org/

Jubilee South “is a network of jubilee and debt campaigns, social movements, people’s organizations, communities, NGOs and political formations” working for debt cancellation in the global South.

Jubilee USA Network
http://www.jubileeusa.org
222 East Capitol Street NE
Washington, DC 20003
Phone: (202) 783-3566
Fax: (202) 546-4468
E-mail: coord@j2000usa.org

Jubilee USA Network began as Jubilee 2000/USA in 1997 “when a diverse gathering of people and organizations came together in response to the international call for Jubilee debt cancellation. Now over 60 organizations including labor, churches, religious communities and institutions, AIDS activists, trade campaigners and over 9,000 individuals are active members of the Jubilee USA Network.” Jubilee is “a strong, diverse and growing network dedicated to working for a world free of debt for billions of people.” The network’s name was chosen in reference to “the Jubilee Year as quoted in Leviticus” where “those enslaved because of debts are freed, lands lost because of debt are returned, and community torn by inequality is restored.” Jubilee views international debt as “a new form of slavery” where poor people are “working harder and harder in a vain effort to keep up with the interest payments on debts owed to rich countries including the US and international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.” The Jubilee USA Network website links users to fact sheets on oil, human rights, debt, water, the environment and women. The website also contains links to education & activist packets, in addition to a Global Justice Film List on debt and other global justice issues. Resources for faith and worship services in Christian and Jewish congregations are available at http://www.jubileeusa.org/jubilee.cgi?path=/
resources/worship_resources. Links to congregations and organizations involved in the Jubilee USA Network are available at http://www.jubileeusa.org/jubilee.cgi?path=/resources/links.

National Council of Churches USA
http://www.ncccusa.org/
475 Riverside Drive, Suite 880
New York, NY 10115
Phone: (212) 870-2227
Fax: (212) 870-2030

The National Council of Churches, founded in 1950, is “the leading force for ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States.  The NCC's 36 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, historic African American and Living Peace member faith groups include 45 million persons in more than 100,000 local congregations in communities across the nation.” The NCC website contains resources for working on environmental justice, anti-racism, justice for women, and farm migrant labor conditions with churches.

Religious Working Group on the World Bank & the IMF
http://www.sndden.org/rwg/
P.O. Box 29132
Washington, DC 20017
E-mail: oqc@maryknoll.org or browne@maryknoll.org

Spurred by various projects to reform the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the Religious Working Group came together in the mid-1990s to “articulate this call for reform in the language of faith.” Their goal is “to build the human community, a community of solidarity, where everyone has what they need for a dignified life in sustainable relationships with the rest of creation.” The group’s website contains a list of congregations and faith-based organizations who share this goal. The list is accessible at http://www.sndden.org/rwg/who/htm. Their statement of faith, also available on their website, may also be a good tool for involving individuals and communities of faith in economic justice work.

The Simple Way
http://www,thesimpleway.org/
P.O. Box 14751
Philadelphia, PA 19134
Phone: (212) 427-2667

The Simple Way is “a community of faith” working to “create community.” They are a small group of committed Christian activists who’ve used street theatre, truth-telling, the transformation of abandoned housing, the passion of their faith and the spirit of their “intentional community” to raise awareness and sew seeds of change around the current economic and security issues of our times. The Simple Way is based in Philadelphia’s Kensington Community, working closely with groups such as the Kensington Welfare Rights Union to bring about justice on Philly’s Street with homeless and low-income youth, adults and families. The Simple Way hosts visitors and volunteers for short and sometimes extended stays. Members of the community have learned much about the state of the world from the Kensington community itself and from their national and international journeys, research, and soul-searching. Members of the community, all dynamic speakers, are often invited to share their experiences and their work in church gatherings and other circles of faith and spirit.

Sisters of the Holy Cross
http://www.cscsisters.org/justice/
justice_videos_economics.asp
Bertrand Hall – Saint Mary’s
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5000
Phone: (574) 284-5550
Fax: (574) 284-5779

Sisters of the Holy Cross is an organization of Roman Catholic women, part of the International Holy Cross family of faith. The Sisters work “to assist and empower people around the globe.” The Sisters’ live out their faith by working for global economic justice, ecological sustainability, human solidarity and women’s human rights. Their website provides resources for understanding issues around debt and other global justice concerns.

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