Presbyterians Transforming the World!
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Campaigns
Working in an organized, active way toward a specific goal
- The Campaign for Fair Food consumers and farmworkers to urge food corporations to end conditions of poverty and exploitation in the Florida tomato fields by joining the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ Fair Food Program. For more details
Contact: Andrew.KangBartlett@pcusa.org, 800-728-7228 ext. 5388
- The Fair Development Campaign connects Presbyterians with the United Workers Association of Baltimore in holding developers that have benefited from public funds, subsidies, and tax incentives accountable to the community for providing jobs at living wages and other human rights in communities and workplaces. For more details
Contact:Andrew.KangBartlett@pcusa.org, 800-728-7228 ext. 5388 and JHerbert.Nelson@pcusa.org, 202-543-1126
- Food with Dignity is an emerging campaign that works especially with local and state governments to procure food produced by workers in the food supply chain whose rights are respected, paid a living wage, and provided safe working conditions, while prioritizing sustainably-produced food from local farms and food businesses. For more details
Contact: Andrew.KangBartlett@pcusa.org, 800-728-7228 ext. 5388
- Israeli Settlement Products Boycott is an effort called for by the 2012 General Assembly. These products help to sustain the ever-expanding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which have dispossessed Palestinians of their homes, agricultural lands and water resources, and have disrupted the ability of Palestinians to move freely and develop a viable economy. The settlements are identified as a major roadblock to a just and lasting peace for Israelis and Palestinians based on the two-state solution.
Contact: Bill.Somplatsky-Jarman@pcusa.org, 800-728-7228 ext. 5809
- Publish What You Pay is a global transparency movement that is establishing new norms for financial reporting in the oil, gas and mining sectors in order to curb corruption and to give investors more accurate project-level information so they can make good choices about the use of their dollars. For more details
Contact: eileen.schuhmann@pcusa.org, 800-728-7228 ext. 5027
- Raise Hope for Congo — Conflict Free Minerals Movement seeks to promote transparency in extractive industries to enable consumers to avoid products that use materials that fuel conflict and gender based violence. The Conflict Free Minerals Movement demands that companies identify the sources of the materials they use in items such as cell phones, portable music players, and computers, allowing consumers to refuse to buy products that perpetuate violence in the Congo. For more details
Contact: Catherine.Gordon@pcusa.org, 202-543-1126
- The Red Hand Campaign seeks to end the use of children as soldiers. This international campaign asks United Nations member states to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Presbyterians have participated in the Red Hand Campaign since 2009, sending over 9,000 red hands to Permanent Missions of United Nations member states that have not ratified the protocol. In that time, 27 member states have ratified. The campaign continues as 40 member states have yet to ratify the protocol. For more details
Contact: Mark.Koenig@pcusa.org, 212-697-4568
- The Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct Campaign promoted by our partner ECPAT —USA (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking — USA). It calls companies in the tourism industry to adopt a standard of responsible business practices to effectively crack down on the sexual exploitation of children. For more details
Contact: Ryan.Smith@pcusa.org, 212-697-4568
- The Trade Reform Campaign is a wide-ranging effort by Presbyterians to open up the now closed trade negotiation process so that citizen input overrides that of corporations, which now have access to negotiators in ways that ordinary voters do not. The campaign’s focus is to institute transparency as a norm in agreements, among them the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the largest free trade agreement negotiated by the United States to date. Negotiations around the Trans-Pacific Partnership are scheduled to conclude this fall. For more details
Contact: Eileen.Schuhmann@pcusa.org, 800-728-7228 ext. 5027
