“Historic vote” by Presbyterian Mission Agency Board is the latest chapter in long history of PC(USA) support for CIW, Fair Food Movement…
Huge news from the faith-based organizing front of the movement for Fair Food: The 1.4 million-member Presbyterian Church (USA) became the first mainline denomination to endorse the principles of Worker-driven Social Responsibility at its Mission Agency board meeting on Saturday, September 29th!
Shannan Vance-Ocampo, who serves on the Mission Agency board, spoke with the Presbyterian journal, The Presbyterian Outlook, on the significance of the vote. Here below is a short excerpt from that article, titled “From social responsibility principles to church policy: Presbyterian Mission Agency Board considers issues great and small”:
… Vance-Ocampo described it as a “historic vote” for the board.
The decision to support the WSR principles (G.102 Endorsement of Worker-driven Social Responsibility Principles) is “a big deal for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),” she said, “but most importantly, this vote is extremely important for our partners … who depend on our advocacy and our appropriate use of our power and privilege as a denomination.”
This is not the first “first” for the PC(USA) in its long partnership with the CIW. As men and women from Haiti, Guatemala and Mexico began gathering in a borrowed church room in Immokalee way back in 1993, the PC(USA) awarded CIW a Self-Development of People grant, recognizing that workers themselves were the ones best positioned to analyze and plan how to address violence and poverty wages in the fields...
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