Labor Rights

ATCF Encuentro Feb 2010

Delegates on an Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera delegation celebrate 10 years of solidarity with workers on the U.S./Mexican border.

By Judith Rosenberg

In February 2010, 11 of us trooped down to Piedras Negras Mexico to celebrate our 10-year anniversary with our Mexican partners, the CFO (Comité Fronterizo de Obreras/os). We looked back; we looked forward.  We evaluated, sang praises, and ate barbeque chicken.  They gave us plaques of recognition and gifts.  Some of us, Mexican and US, were awed.  Some of us were new to the idea of our solidarity and were thrilled--or confused.

An Executive Summary

Global economic justice is the bedrock of a peaceful world. As an organization long committed to achieving peace and justice, the American Friends Service Committee commissioned this report to stimulate reflection and discussion among the Service Committee, the Religious Society of Friends, and the wider community in order to advance the structural changes needed to build a just global economy - an economy founded on respect for inherent dignity and equal rights.