NEWS & UPDATES

It's officially summer, and we hope you are staying safe and cool wherever you find yourself during this heat wave! LRC began this month...

It’s May and that means the 2024 Moral Fusion Leadership Awards are just around the corner! If you haven’t yet, purchase tickets here for...

This week holds particular significance for followers of the Abrahamic religions. Jews began their celebration of Passover earlier this...

March is here, and that means the final weeks of negotiations over the New York State Budget, which is due April 1. At stake is whether...

On Wednesday, just a few weeks after her State of the State Address, Governor Kathy Hochul released a $227 billion budget proposal, which...

Happy New Year from your friends at the Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State! We hope you and your loved ones were able to find...

On Sunday June 12th, 2022, Rev. E. West McNeil, co-chair of the New York State Poor People's Campaign and Executive Director of the...

The well being of the poor and dispossessed determines the well being of all of us." - Rev E. West McNeill

"We need and deserve the transformation of so much of our society.” Becca Forsyth , NYS Poor People's Campaign. Launch of a Multimedia...

In This Issue: Reflections from Labor Power and the 3rd Reconstruction Caught Up, a statement by our Digital Organizer The continued...

We had an incredible virtual truth commission this past weekend, Labor Power and the 3rd Reconstruction! Thank you to all of the event's...

We are excited to announce one of our speakers will be, Terry L. Melvin, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)!...

“Poor and working people know what we need.” Rev. Joe Paparone, Lead Organizer of Labor Religion Coalition This month's happenings at...

"New York State's budget will be finalized in just a few weeks, and funding for our public higher education system is one of the critical...

“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh This has been a very...

"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Continuing The...

“There yet remains an energy, when supported with the will, that can roll back the combined and encroaching powers of tyranny and...

"What my family needs more than charity is a society where housing and food are guaranteed human rights." - Rev. Molly Dowell Baum from...

MORAL FUSION LEADERSHIP AWARDS RECAP Opening remarks by our Executive Director, Rev. E. West McNeill: It’s a cliche at this point to say...

Rev. E. West McNeill Video is of a sermon given at Kairos Center For Social Justice's Freedom Church of the Poor for Labor Day Weekend....