This post is a continuation of Advocacy as Discipleship Pre-GA Issue. This edition of this publication seeks to provide an preview of the social justice business before the 221st General Assembly (2014) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Mission Coordination – Committee 8
Divestment
from For-Profit Prisons
Sponsored by the
Presbyterian Mission Agency, item 08-09 recommends that the category of
publicly traded corporations that directly manage or operate for-profit
prisons, jails, and/or detention centers be added to the list of companies from
which the GA urges divestment and/or proscription of investment ownership. This
is to say the recommendation, in response to a direction from the 220th GA (2012), is asking that any for-profit prisons, jails,
and/or detention centers be added to the list of companies in which the church
will no longer invest.
To
read the complete items of business before the Mission Coordination Committee, visit the General Assembly's business website at http://www.pc-biz.org.
