Economic Justice
AFSC believes that economic justice is essential to cultivating peaceful communities. The Austin Area Program provides a number of interconnected ways for people to learn about economic justice issues and to take action on them.
Popular Education AFSC-Austin works to deepen public understanding of corporate-driven globalization, associated poverty, and growing inequality. In popular education workshops, participants learn to link these global trends with local issues, and to envision community-driven alternatives aimed at advancing economic justice. Read more…
Cross-Border Solidarity The AFSC Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera program (ATCF: ‘Austin So Close to the Border’) promotes solidarity between people in the United States and people working and organizing in the maquiladora industry in Mexico. Read more…
Border Delegations Austin Tan Cerca organizes quarterly delegations to meet with the Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s (CFO: Border Committee of Women Workers). Delegates speak with maquiladora workers in their homes and learn of their lives and struggles to secure their rights. Read more…
Community Action Networks AFSC-Austin promotes concerted community action on local economic justice initiatives. It participates actively in the Religion and Labor Network of Austin, and in the campaign for the City of Austin to use its purchasing leverage to end sweatshop practices. See "Austin: The Next Sweat Free Community?" in the March 2006 Newsletter (Volume 19 No. 2).
Trade Matters The Austin Area Program highlights the impact of trade systems on the lives of low-income workers, farmers and migrants on both sides of the border. From this perspective, the Austin office educates and organizes for change in international and national trade policy, together with the AFSC Trade Matters Program and the Texas Fair Trade Coalition. Read more…
Fair Trade AFSC-Austin’s annual fair trade sale features beautiful handcrafts from women’s cooperatives, as well as an educational forum and cultural events. The event provides a moving, experiential understanding of what is at stake in international trade policy debates for the lives of real people in real places. AFSC also provides year-round support to sewing cooperatives sponsored by Fuerza Unida and the Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s. See http://www.afsc.org/austin/women-trade.htm
AFSC-TAO organizes delegations to meet with the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras (CFO) or Border Committee of Women Workers.
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