Faith, Labor and Community Alliances – Word & World

Featuring a conversation between Baldemar Velazques, director of FLOC, Nelson Johnson of the Beloved Community Center (Greensboro), Bob King of the UAW, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Woker Justice, and Rev. Charles Wiliams II AFSME local, this worshop addresses a series of questions: What role can faith & the faith community play in forming a vision for social transformation? What is meant by “the Beloved Community” and how might it be a vision for communities of faith and labor? How can the relgious presence not merely support economic struggle, but reframe it morally and socially? What would it mean for labor be a force not just for worker justice, but for the wholeness of the entire community? What is community unionism? Word and World is an ecumenical and inclusive project of socially-conscious Christians and other people of faith which seeks to reunite “the seminary, the sanctuary and the streets,” for the sake of social transformation.