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David L. Ostendorf
David Ostendorf is a United Church of Christ minister serving as executive director of the Chicago-based Center for New Community, a national organization committed to building community, justice and equality.
Mission in Missouri: Churches and immigrants
In 1994, things began to look up for Milan, Missouri, a remote, rural community of 2,000 that had been struggling for years with a declining farm economy and weak job market....
‘Workers, go home!’ The anti-immigrant movement: The anti-immigrant movement
A Riverhead, New York, jury has sentenced 29-year-old Christopher Slavin to 25 years in prison for attempted murder and assault....
Countering hatred: Neglect is not benign
In a nine-state area of the Midwest, 272 far-right-wing organizations—including Christian Identity, Christian Patriot, neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan groups—ply their racist and anti-Semitic ideologies....
Exploiting immigrant workers: Packinghouse communities
The two men had come with other Latinos from Texas to work in a Missouri meat-packing plant. They had once worked the fields, and had experienced all kinds of employers and working conditions....
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