From ucm.revjoan at gmail.com Thu Aug 17 11:54:05 2017 From: ucm.revjoan at gmail.com (Rev. Joan Javier-Duval) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:54:05 -0400 Subject: [SRCAction] Fwd: What We Can Do To Fight White Supremacy Message-ID: Hello, all, I know that after the events of the weekend many of you have showed up in public witness against hate and white supremacy - in person and on social media. I know that many of you are also engaged in deeper reflection and faith formation by reading books and talking with others. Thank you for all the ways you are engaged in this important work of transformation. You may have heard that hate groups had been planning a rally in Boston on the Commons for this Saturday. It is unclear whether those events will still go on, but the "Fight Supremacy Resistance Rally" and accompanying events are still happening. Below is an e-mail with some information on events taking place in Boston over the next few days to show up for love and against hate in case it is of interest to any of you. In faith and solidarity, Joan *Rev. Joan Javier-Duval* | *Minister* Unitarian Church of Montpelier ucm.revjoan at gmail.com | 802-223-7861 x1 | Facebook | Twitter *"We are each other's harvest; **we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond." --Gwendolyn Brooks* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: New England Region UUA Date: Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:11 PM Subject: What We Can Do To Fight White Supremacy To: ucm.revjoan at gmail.com A Message from Standing on the Side of Love Having trouble viewing this email? Click here *Please share with Unitarian Universalist members, colleagues and friends* * You May Be Asking, "What Can I Do?" * We are all horrified by recent events that evidence an emboldened white supremacist influence and aggression. The vandalism at Boston's Holocaust Memorial last night and the gathering of hate groups to Boston Common planned for this coming Saturday are wake up calls to anyone who might believe New England is immune from openly hostile and violent institutional expressions of hate. Standing on the Side of Love staff has been in conversation with Boston-based activists organizing a counter-rally and protest, with local clergy, and with Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism. They have compiled information that lets you know how you can be part of efforts to resist the hate. *Read below to learn how to support this effort financially, and where, when and how you can show up to embody love.* We encourage everyone to follow through on what you are called to do, to stay centered in love and prayer, and to stay awake to the realities of hate and fear that threaten marginalized communities around the country. *Meck Groot, Justice Ministries Lead, New England Region UUA* [image: Standing on the Side of Love] Beloveds, I am not sure of most things these days. But I do know that white supremacy lives everywhere - and so does love and resistance. Everywhere. Absolutely everywhere. You may have heard that there are white supremacists gathering on the Boston Common on Saturday August 19th. And in so many cities and college campuses. Maybe yours. There is no neutrality. Now is when we show up. To confront hate - in the form of white supremacists gatherings and the white supremacy that is in our laws, our school systems, our families, our congregations, our land. Find your frontlines. Below is a request from one our frontlines - *Boston,* where our UU congregations and clergy and UUA staff will be showing up as best we know how. *Show up:* - Join *Violence in Boston, Black Lives Matter Boston and Black Lives Matter Cambridge* to *Fight Supremacy! Boston Counter-Protest and Resistance Rally *. Gather at 10am at the Reggie Lewis Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. Be sure to check the event page for opportunities to make signs. - Use Sunday, August 20th to talk and pray about how white supremacy lives in your congregation, your community and institutions in your city/town/state. - Whether or not you can show up in body, showing up with resources is key. *Give over your collection, give personally.* Organizers have asked that you contribute to and ask others to donate directly to local Black and queer organizers and Black, Indigenous, People of Color victims of white supremacy in your area and in your congregations. *BLM Network/BLM Cambridge have also set up a Fund - support it and share it widely!* You can directly support the healing and medical care needed for folks attacked last weekend. Support Alexis and Nicole and Dre directly here . This is Black August so we have an opportunity to practice abolition by supporting bailing out Black families and community members today. Contribute to Southerners on New Grounds Black August Bail Out Actions . - *Fight Supremacy!* Organizing Committee, Karlene Griffiths Sekou, Black Lives Matter, Boston and Rev. Dr. Pamela R. Lightsey Clergy, United Methodist Church, are *calling all clergy* who are planning to attend the march and would like to stand in solidarity with this effort to attend a pre-gathering on *Friday, August 18th 6:00-8:00 at Union United Methodist Church at 485 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02118. *If you are a clergy person and attending, please email: m4blmboston at gmail.com. *Or don't show up.* As Black Lives of UU says "To Black UUs, organizers of any faith or no faith, and our UU of color siblings, we struggle with you....To you, we say be where you need to be. Feel what you need to feel, and do what you need to do. Text a friend and meet up. Message someone you met at GA on Facebook. Go to a solidarity vigil, or avoid one-but find community, somehow." *If you are called to show up - here's how:* - *Let us know you're coming by filling out this form * *. * - *Ground in our faith.* In our seventh principle of interdependence and deep connection means that none of us are safe and beloved until we are all safe and beloved. In our fourth principle of a free and *responsible *for truth meaning means that when someone's search means that our friends, family, siblings of color are not safe and beloved, it is no longer responsible. And our responsibility is to confront and dismantle white supremacy with reparations and repair. - *White folks* are being asked to show up to: - Provide resources to the most marginalized - Serve as a buffer between white nationalists/police and people of color - Take up as little physical and rhetorical space as possible (Don't speak over Black, Indigenous, People of Color or clamor to get to microphone or bullhorn, etc) - Speak up and uplift the voices of the most marginalized - Realize that whatever they're doing, some will interpret it as "wrong" or insincere and they have to accept that and continue to work or move aside - Examine what to do AFTER these rallies and how to capitalize on the momentum and dismantle white supremacy that's less "obvious." *Non-violent Direct Action Training (NVDA)* which includes a "Know Your Rights" legal component, or a comprehensive training that includes NVDA, "Know Your Rights, and MEDIC components trainings are strongly encouraged. Schedule below: - *Thursday, August 17th, 5-10pm, Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116 * - *Friday, August 18th, 10am - 8pm, Union United Methodist Church, 485 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02118 * - Schedule: 10:00-1:00 NVDA ? 2:00-4:00 MEDIC ? 5:00-7:00 Legal Advisory: Know Your Rights - *Friday, August 18th, 5-10pm Hope Central Church, 85 Seaverns Avenue, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 * Again, *NVDA Trainings are strongly encouraged**.* Questions? Check out the FAQ . We all get to practice humility, flexibility, trust, not needing to know everything as the situations are dynamic. Things will change. We will adapt and learn and be stronger for whatever needs our love next. [image: Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen] With all love, Rev. 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The women's Alliance and my daughter Janet Ballantyne will be hosting the party, so I hope you will be there: Sunday, Sept. 3rd between 2:00 and 4:00. Because my passion is to support the work of Heifer International, which helps farmers in many countries to become self sufficient, I am asking the guests to the party to write a small check (perhaps $10) made out to: Heifer International. I will then send the donated checks all together to my friends at the Heifer Farm, where my husband and I were the host couple for 2 months for each of thirteen years. The contributions will be credited to our church. Usually Harris Webster and I make a big effort between Thanksgiving and Christmas to have all in our congregation come to our Heifer Int. table and make out checks in honor of a member of their family or a friend. We usually raise a lot of money with that effort (more than $3,300 last year). But this year Harris will be in Cambodia doing volunteer teaching for four months there, and I will also be away between Thanksgiving and Christmas. My father was a Jewish composer and teacher who lost his position when Hitler took over Austria in1938. He left for the US in 1939. My father's music, now revived and his life are being celebrated in Vienna in December, so I will be travelling there right after Thanksgiving to attend the concert and exhibition. I am requesting Mark to ask you each to support this event with a vote, which will reduce the fee I already paid for the rental of the vestry and let me send more from us all to Heifer International. I hope you will be able to attend the party. If you are unable to make it, and wish to support the effort for Heifer International, perhaps you would like to send a check ( made out to Heifer International) for me to include with the others to: Hedi Ballantyne 20 Kent St. Montpelier, VT 05602 Thank you, Hedi -- Please follow us: f: https://www.facebook.com/justiceforallvt/ t: @Justice4AllVT w: justiceforallvt.org Mark A. Hughes Justice For All m: 401.480.8222 t: @Pwnalias "It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it." Maya Angelou -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From margaretmooreblanchard at gmail.com Mon Aug 21 15:16:08 2017 From: margaretmooreblanchard at gmail.com (Margaret Blanchard) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:16:08 -0400 Subject: [SRCAction] Hedi Is Turning 90 and YOU Need to Be There! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I vote yes, of course! And thanks for the invitation; I plan to be there. On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Mark Hughes via SRCAction < srcaction at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote: > I am excited to pass along this invitation to Hedi's 90th Birthday party. > Let's all make this a very special time for her. > > See you there! > > Mark > > > All, > > My 90th birthday is coming up and I have reserved and paid to rent the > vestry for the party. The women's Alliance and my daughter Janet Ballantyne > will be hosting the party, so I hope you will be there: > > Sunday, Sept. 3rd between 2:00 and 4:00. > > Because my passion is to support the work of Heifer International, which > helps farmers in many countries to become self sufficient, I am asking the > guests to the party to write a small check (perhaps $10) made out to: > Heifer International. I will then send the donated checks all together to > my friends at the Heifer Farm, where my husband and I were the host couple > for 2 months for each of thirteen years. The contributions will be > credited to our church. > > Usually Harris Webster and I make a big effort between Thanksgiving and > Christmas to have all in our congregation come to our Heifer Int. table and > make out checks in honor of a member of their family or a friend. We > usually raise a lot of money with that effort (more than $3,300 last year). > > But this year Harris will be in Cambodia doing volunteer teaching for four > months there, and I will also be away between Thanksgiving and Christmas. > My father was a Jewish composer and teacher who lost his position when > Hitler took over Austria in1938. He left for the US in 1939. My father's > music, now revived and his life are being celebrated in Vienna in > December, so I will be travelling there right after Thanksgiving to attend > the concert and exhibition. > > I am requesting Mark to ask you each to support this event with a vote, > which will reduce the fee I already paid for the rental of the vestry and > let me send more from us all to Heifer International. > > I hope you will be able to attend the party. > > If you are unable to make it, and wish to support the effort for Heifer > International, perhaps you would like to send a check ( made out to Heifer > International) for me to include with the others to: > > Hedi Ballantyne > 20 Kent St. > Montpelier, VT 05602 > > Thank you, > Hedi > -- > Please follow us: > > f: https://www.facebook.com/justiceforallvt/ > t: @Justice4AllVT > w: justiceforallvt.org > > Mark A. Hughes > Justice For All > m: 401.480.8222 <(401)%20480-8222> > t: @Pwnalias > > > > "It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, > without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all > like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of > it." Maya Angelou > > > Unitarian Church of Montpelier > SRC Action email list > unsubscribe at www.unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jrhinds1185 at yahoo.com Mon Aug 21 15:23:52 2017 From: jrhinds1185 at yahoo.com (Judith Hinds) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 20:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [SRCAction] Hedi Is Turning 90 and YOU Need to Be There! In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: <366080171.2235328.1503347032168@mail.yahoo.com> Please do not reply to the "srcaction" listserv address unless you REALLY want 40 other people to see your message. Thanks,? Judith From: Margaret Blanchard via SRCAction To: Mark Hughes Cc: "srcaction at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org" Sent: Monday, August 21, 2017 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [SRCAction] Hedi Is Turning 90 and YOU Need to Be There! I vote yes, of course!? And thanks for the invitation; I plan to be there. On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Mark Hughes via SRCAction wrote: I am excited to pass along this invitation to Hedi's 90th Birthday party.? Let's all make this a very special time for her. See you there! Mark All, My ?90th birthday is coming up and I have reserved and paid to rent the vestry for the party. The women's Alliance and my daughter Janet Ballantyne will be hosting the party, so I hope you will be there: Sunday, Sept. 3rd?between?2:00 and 4:00. Because my passion is to support the work of Heifer International, which helps farmers in many countries to become self sufficient, I am asking the guests to the party to write a small check (perhaps $10) made out to: Heifer International. I will then send the donated checks all together to my friends at the Heifer Farm, where my husband and I were the host couple for 2 months for each of thirteen years. The contributions ?will be credited to our church. Usually Harris Webster and I make a big effort between Thanksgiving and Christmas to have all in our congregation come to our Heifer Int. table and make out checks in honor of a member of their family or a friend. We usually raise a lot of money with that effort (more than $3,300 last year). But this year Harris will be in Cambodia doing volunteer teaching for four months there, and I will also be away between Thanksgiving and Christmas. My father was a Jewish composer and teacher who lost his position when Hitler took over Austria in1938. He left for the US in 1939. My father's music, now revived and his ?life are being celebrated in Vienna in December, so I will be travelling there right after Thanksgiving to attend the concert and exhibition. I am requesting Mark to ask you each to support this event with a vote, which will reduce the fee I already paid for the rental of the vestry and let me send more from us all to Heifer International. I hope you will be able to attend the party. If you are unable to make it, and wish to support the effort for Heifer International, perhaps you would like to send a check ( made out to Heifer International) ?for me to include with the others to: Hedi Ballantyne20 Kent St.Montpelier, VT 05602 Thank you,Hedi-- Please follow us: f: https://www.facebook.com/ justiceforallvt/ t: @Justice4AllVT w: justiceforallvt.org Mark A. HughesJustice For Allm: 401.480.8222t: ? @Pwnalias "It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."? Maya Angelou Unitarian Church of Montpelier SRC Action email list unsubscribe at www. unitarianchurchofmontpelier. org Unitarian Church of Montpelier SRC Action email list unsubscribe at www.unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mark at justiceforallvt.org Mon Aug 21 15:48:48 2017 From: mark at justiceforallvt.org (Mark Hughes) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 16:48:48 -0400 Subject: [SRCAction] Vestry Reservation for Sunday September 3rd from 5:30 till 8:0 PM Message-ID: Please announce to UCM as well. Justice For All presents: The Gathering: A Time for Reflection, Revival, & Resistance September 3rd This is the fourth installment of ?The Gathering? series, by Repairers of The Breach. The Poor People's Campaign tour is underway and we are growing a movement. Come and prepare for action with us! Live from Raleigh, North Carolina, the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove co-host this monthly program to equip communities with resources for faithful reflection and public action on moral issues. The Gathering includes an introduction to a moral issue, immersion in freedom songs that inform how we engage the issue, an interview with folks directly impacted by the issue, and a theological engagement with the issue that names a specific call to moral action. September's issue is LIVING WAGE in partnership with Fight For $15 on Sunday, Sept. 3. Bring the kids and the snacks and beverages you like. For more information contact National Social Justice Organizer Rev. Erica Williams at ewilliams at breachrepairers.org -- Please follow us: f: https://www.facebook.com/justiceforallvt/ t: @Justice4AllVT w: justiceforallvt.org Mark A. Hughes Justice For All m: 401.480.8222 t: @Pwnalias "It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it." Maya Angelou -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hughesmanthony at gmail.com Wed Aug 23 22:54:36 2017 From: hughesmanthony at gmail.com (Mark Hughes) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 23:54:36 -0400 Subject: [SRCAction] Justice For All and Racial Justice Reform Coalition Updates Message-ID: Folks, We hope that you are having an amazing summer. Here are some updates on some events that will be happening in the very near future. *H.308 (Act 54, 2017) Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel Discussion* *Monday, August 28th at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier* https://www.facebook.com/events/1711606875815140/ *Wednesday, August 30th the Unitarian Church in Burlington * https://www.facebook.com/events/354885951608461 H.308 (Act 54, 2017) created the Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel. This legislation was put forward and strongly supported by Justice For All, the Racial Justice Reform Coalition (30 Vermont organizations) and the entire community. Come out and learn more about the law and provide input and recommendations on implementation and next steps. Because of you, the law exists. It will take your continued involvement to ensure that it is implemented effectively. We will announce other dates as they are finalized. * Note: Don?t miss the first Racial Disparities Advisory Panel meeting on the 29th of August at 2:00 PM. The meeting will be in room 10 at the State House. https://www.facebook.com/events/212749125792827/ *Kickoff Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel Meeting* *When: Tuesday, 29 August at 2:00 PM* *Where: Statehouse, Room 10 * H.308 (Act 54, 2017) created the Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Justice System Advisory Panel. This legislation was put forward and strongly supported by Justice For All, the Racial Justice Reform Coalition (30 Vermont organizations) and the entire community. Come out and show your support. The power of the people is derived from the transparency and accountability of our government. Your involvement is needed more than ever. https://www.facebook.com/events/212749125792827/ *The New Poor People?s Campaign: A National Moral Revival ? The Gathering: A Time for Reflection, Revival and Resistance* *When: Sunday September 3rd From 5:30 till 8:00 PM* *Where: Unitarian Church in Montpelier* This is the fourth installment of ?The Gathering? series, by Repairers of The Breach. The Poor People's Campaign tour is underway and we are growing a movement. Come and prepare for action with us! Live from Raleigh, North Carolina, the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove co-host this monthly program to equip communities with resources for faithful reflection and public action on moral issues. The Gathering includes an introduction to a moral issue, immersion in freedom songs that inform how we engage the issue, an interview with folks directly impacted by the issue, and a theological engagement with the issue that names a specific call to moral action. September's issue is LIVING WAGE in partnership with Fight For $15 on Sunday, Sept. 3. You can learn more about the New Poor People's Campaign and this nation al call for a moral revival here: https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/ http://www.breachrepairers.org/ Bring the kids and the snacks and beverages you like. https://www.facebook.com/events/113713119284805/ Don?t forget our monthly general meeting (every third Thursday) at the Unitarian Church, in Montpelier. Thank you for your support! Mark Hughes, ED, JFA #racialjusticereformvt -- Mark A. Hughes 401.480.8222 @pwnalias "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? " Saint Augustine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: