Three Interviews on Religion, Labor, and Justice

In fall of 2020, the Wendland-Cook fellows engaged in a series of monthly conversations with Tennessee-based economic justice and worker justice organizations. We’re happy to make these interviews to a broader public now. Each interview addresses a range of issues: from addressing how the economy isn’t working, to exploring the dynamics of organizing in immigrant communities against wage theft.

The second interview in this series is with Benny Overton and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger, co-directors of the Southeast Center for Cooperative Development, who address the problems of our current economic system and how worker cooperatives can provide a solution.

The first interview is with Vonda McDaniel who talks with Rev. Francisco Garcia about the state of labor and the labor movement during the COVID-19 pandemic, the connection between faith and labor, how faith communities can promote economic justice, and more in this forum on religion, labor, and justice hosted by the Wendland-Cook Program.

Bringing this series to a close, Cecilia Prado and Ashley Bachelder, co-directors of Workers' Dignity, talk about community organizing, workers' rights in Tennessee, and more in this forum on religion, labor, and justice.