Chuck Rawlings
My blogs
| Introduction | I served as Coordinator for Urban Programs at the National Council of Churches in the 1990s and in the 80s as executive director of the New Jersey Council of Churches where I supported then Governor Jim Florio’s forlorn effort at tax reform. He learned and so did I. Three programs have been central to my work over many years: researching the impact of globalization on wages and benefits of workers in the U. S. and around the world. This connects to an earlier interest in creating community/worker ownership of manufacturing in cities like Youngstown and Pittsburgh where disinvestment substantially destroyed tens of thousands of people’s lives. In earlier years I’ve worked in the Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movement and the Central America human rights and sanctuary movement. In the last decade I’ve been involved in advocacy for Palestinian liberation from the Israeli Occupation, joining with my wife, Joan, to sponsor tours to both Israel and the West Bank to help Americans understand what that means. Until recently I served as executive director of the Santa Clara County Council of Churches. |
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