Highlights of Social Justice Actions
2000-Present
Economic Justice Project – Cooperatives Team for job creation, Justice & Equality in Dayton Workshop: Launching a Movement to Challenge Economic Injustice - Saturday, April 12, 2014, 9:30 to Noon, Memorial Hall, Downtown Dayton. Local Move Your Money Campaign – Disinvest from big banks to local banks and credit unions, The CfR votes to begin the Economic Justice covenant process with the national United Church of Christ.
LEAD – Leaders for Equality and Action in Dayton – Faith-based community organization, 25th year,
Economic Development, Education, Let the People Ride, 2013 Victory: Title VI ruling in favor of RTA bus service to Beavercreek, Council votes to allow bus stops in this issue that lasted two years, Re-entry for Ex- Offenders, Housing, Crime and Safety, Environmental Racism
Good Friday Walk for Justice and Peace – Stations of the Cross around downtown Dayton linked to diverse justice issues, 30th year, with Dayton justice and peace organizations
Good Friday Walk for Justice and Peace, April 18, 2014, Noon, Courthouse Square, Downtown Dayton
Economic Justice Project – Cooperatives Team for job creation, Justice & Equality in Dayton Workshop: Launching a Movement to Challenge Economic Injustice - Saturday, April 12, 2014, 9:30 to Noon, Memorial Hall, Downtown Dayton. Local Move Your Money Campaign – Disinvest from big banks to local banks and credit unions, The CfR votes to begin the Economic Justice covenant process with the national United Church of Christ.
LEAD – Leaders for Equality and Action in Dayton – Faith-based community organization, 25th year,
Economic Development, Education, Let the People Ride, 2013 Victory: Title VI ruling in favor of RTA bus service to Beavercreek, Council votes to allow bus stops in this issue that lasted two years, Re-entry for Ex- Offenders, Housing, Crime and Safety, Environmental Racism
Good Friday Walk for Justice and Peace – Stations of the Cross around downtown Dayton linked to diverse justice issues, 30th year, with Dayton justice and peace organizations
Good Friday Walk for Justice and Peace, April 18, 2014, Noon, Courthouse Square, Downtown Dayton
Channel 7 News Coverage Unfair on City of Dayton Crime - Link to the 2008 report by CfR committee
SOA - Close the School of the Americas, Fort Benning, GA, Training facility for Central and South American military crimes perpetrators. Members and friends have demonstrated and/or committed civil disobedience at Annual demonstration.
POR – Pledge of Resistance – A mission of the CfR - Anti-Intervention of United States in Latin America, 30th year, with Dayton activists, Past CfR Delegation of Civil Disobedience against U.S. support for Contra war in Nicaragua at the Federal Building in Dayton
Iraq War – Active with local peace demonstrations. Demonstrations to send humanitarian aid packages to Iraq during period of U.S. sanctions before the Iraq war.
World Trade Organization/International Monetary Fund – Jubilee 2000 Study on international debt, leafleting, legislative interviews, presentation to Miami Presbytery
1980 – 2000
500th Anniversary of Columbus “Discovery” of the Americas – Public education campaign on Native American Justice Issues with POR, Street theatre, workshop for social studies teachers
Humanitarian Aid to Postwar Iraq – with Dayton Peace Action, billboards, demonstrations
Buy Ohio Food – Public Service Announcements – TV and radio spots for buying locally grown foods and produce with State Buy Ohio Food Campaign and First Lady Dagmar Celeste – Promote Farmers Markets, Small Farms, Organic Foods, with Ohio Council of Churches
Montgomery County Food Sustainability Study – Documented and published % of food imported despite local farms and growers in our county, workshop for hunger advocates in Montgomery County
Delegations to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, Civil Disobedience at Federal Building in Dayton
1968 – 1980
Gulf Oil Boycott – International boycott based in the Congregation to end Portuguese colonial control of Angola, from a United Church of Christ resolution
Citizens against Interstate 675 beltway causing disinvestment in Dayton’s urban center.
ITT Corporation Boycott – corporate boycott against apartheid in South Africa
People’s Bicentennial – Alternative celebration of 1776 with Dayton committee
NCR Exorcism of greed and corporate profit during labor strike
Gulf Oil Boycott – International boycott based in the Congregation to end Portuguese colonial control of Angola, from a United Church of Christ resolution
Citizens against Interstate 675 beltway causing disinvestment in Dayton’s urban center.
ITT Corporation Boycott – corporate boycott against apartheid in South Africa
People’s Bicentennial – Alternative celebration of 1776 with Dayton committee
NCR Exorcism of greed and corporate profit during labor strike
Housing Committee – slum landlords, fair housing and housing policy in Dayton
United People Campaign – to reform the United Fund’s financing of non-profits to serve people in poverty
United People Campaign – to reform the United Fund’s financing of non-profits to serve people in poverty
© 2013 Congregation for Reconciliation of Dayton
A Just Peace and Open and Affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ (UCC)
A Just Peace and Open and Affirming congregation of the United Church of Christ (UCC)