Justice Links
Call To Action/USA: Catholics working for Justice, Inclusion and Accountability
A national Catholic organization involving 25,000 members, CTA presents the largest progressive Catholic conference annually and encourages 52 local chapters. Call To Action works for Church justice, Anti-Racism, Women’s equality in the Church, Politics & Communion, Accountability of Church Leadership for protection of children from clerical sexual abuse, supporting the full inclusion of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transgendered in the Church & society, Peace in Iraq, Lay Synods, Social Justice Advocacy, and fostering a new generation of progressive leadership in the Church.
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good
Works to promote an understanding of and an emphasis on the common good in public life. With an innovative national field program and comprehensive communications shop, Catholics in Alliance has become a go-to source for the media and social justice leaders. Catholics in Alliance advocates the fullness of Catholic Social Teaching on issues ranging from health care and poverty to labor and immigration.
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Catholic Relief Services Action Center
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community. We serve the poor in over 100 countries overseas through programs in emergency relief, HIV and AIDS, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peace building. CRS complements its humanitarian and development activities with policy analysis and advocacy that seek to address root causes of poverty, conflict, and marginalization.
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For more than 35 years, CDF has partnered with people and communities of faith to provide the prophetic voice of justice for all the children in America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. Join us in establishing the Blessed Community for generations to come by joining CDF in the Healthy Child Campaign and the Cradle to Prison® Pipeline Campaign. Engage your congregation in child advocacy ministry through education, worship and action by hosting a National Observance of Children’s Sabbaths® Celebration. Renew your spirit and sharpen your skills at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry, held annually in Clinton, Tennessee. Learn more about how we can work together in living out Jesus’ call to “let the children come,” by visiting CDF’s Religious Action Division website.
The Churches’ Center for Theology and Public Policy
The Churches’ Center for Theology and Public Policy aims to discern and study the relationship between Christian faith and critical issues of public policy, and to enable the churches to contribute more fruitfully to public dialogue and action. Includes resources for your congregation on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, global warming, and supporting peacemaking.
Disciples Justice Action Network
Disciples Justice Action Network is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-issue grassroots network of individuals, congregations, and organizations within the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who work together to live out, proclaim, and promote greater justice, peace, diversity, and inclusion in our churches, our nations (United States and Canada), and our world.
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Find out more information on the ’Measure Up Campaign!’ and Jubilee Sunday 2008.
Latin America Working Group (LAWG)
Help promote peace and justice in Latin America! The LAWG maintains three low-volume e-mail networks responding to the most pressing human rights issues in Latin America. Sign up today to receive updates, suggested actions, and tools for activism on promoting human rights in Colombia, ending the embargo and travel ban on Cuba, and encouraging just policies in the U.S.-Mexico border region.
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Lutheran World Relief envisions a world in which each person and every generation lives in justice, dignity and peace. LWR's main advocacy focus areas are peace and conflict resolution in Sudan, Uganda and Colombia. We also make our voices heard on issues from debt relief to global health. LWRworks with poor and powerless communities to challenge not only the consequences, but also the causes, of poverty and oppression.
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Our office provides analysis and advocacy on issues related to justice, peace and the integrity of creation on behalf of the Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers, Maryknoll Sisters and Maryknoll Lay Missioners. Some topics that we address include (but are not limited to) economic justice, torture, peace and nonviolence, climate change, HIV/AIDS, and women. Our 2008 election project, “Loving our neighbor in a shrinking world,” focuses on foreign policy decisions that are made by the U.S. which reverberate around the world, in positive and negative ways.
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The National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund
Works to liberate citizens of conscience from coerced financial participation in war. We advocate for the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund (H.R. 1921) as a fair way to protect rights of conscience and contribute fully to the common good. Why punish citizens when, compelled by conscience, they act with moral integrity?
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National Council of Churches USA, Justice and Advocacy Commission
The ecumenical channel through which the NCC’s member communions, their boards and agencies, and participating non-member communions and related organizations, cooperate in efforts to pursue justice in church and society, including racial justice, justice for women, environmental justice, the elimination of poverty, religious liberty, health care, justice in the Katrina aftermath, and the pursuit of peace. Basing its advocacy initiatives on policy statements adopted by the Council’s General Assembly over the years, the Commission works in collaboration with public policy offices of the 35 member communions to integrate, focus, deepen and extend their justice ministries and public witness.
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
NETWORK educates, organizes and lobbies on behalf of those who have little economic power. We work for greater economic equity in our society, and base our work in Catholic Social Teaching and Tradition. NETWORK’s issue agenda includes: domestic human needs (in part through work on the federal budget and appropriations), International Trade and Investment, immigration and Iraq. Resources available at http://www.networklobby.org/resources/index.htm provide assistance in advocacy, education programs, prayer reflections, background information and more.
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Creating the publicand political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. For additional resources to engage your community in lobbying elected officials on a host of issues visit http://capwiz.com/results/home/?linkid=1171&navitemid=94
Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
An international community of women religious vowed to serve people who suffer from poverty, sickness and lack of education, with a special concern for women and children. Sisters of Mercy address human needs through collaborative efforts in education, health care, housing, and pastoral and social services. Among Sisters of Mercy one can find doctors, lawyers and paralegals, theologians, immigrant advocates, missionaries, justice advocates, prisoners of conscience, and foster mothers. The Institute includes 4,515 sisters who serve in North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Guam and the Philippines. More than 2,800 associates, several Companions in Mercy, over 600 Mercy Volunteer Corps alumni, and hundreds of co-workers in Mercy-sponsored programs and institutions also share in our mission, following the example of Mercy foundress, Catherine McAuley.
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Founded in 1971, Sojourners’ mission is to articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. In response to this call, we offer a vision for faith in public life by: publishing Sojourners magazine, SojoMail and other resources that address issues of faith, politics, and culture from a biblical perspective; preaching, teaching, organizing, and public witness; nurturing community by bringing together people from the various traditions and streams of the church; hosting an annual program of voluntary service for education, ministry, and discipleship.
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United Church of Christ, Justice and Peace Action Network
The Justice and Peace Action Network responds to the call of Christ through public witness, policy advocacy, issue education, and grassroots empowerment to build a more just, compassionate and inclusive world. Includes resources for faith congregations to get involved on a wide range of issues, including anti-racism, children and families, economic justice, federal budget, Gulf Coast Justice, Health Care, Human Sexuality, Jubilee, Peace with Justice, Public Education, and much more.