From ucm.revjoan at gmail.com Wed Nov 21 08:58:30 2018 From: ucm.revjoan at gmail.com (Rev. Joan Javier-Duval) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:58:30 -0500 Subject: [SRCAction] Volunteering to support migrants and refugees in El Paso, TX and Guadalajara, Mexico Message-ID: Hello, I am sharing an opportunity to support the migrants and refugees at the US-Mexico border. The need is more urgent than ever. If you'd like to talk more about what it would mean to volunteer through the UU College of Social Justice, or if this seems to be calling to you but you need help discerning whether to go, please let me know. I'd love to talk with you. In solidarity, Joan [image: UUCSJ.png] *URGENT Volunteer need! from the UU College of Social Justice * Support migrants and refugees in El Paso, TX and Guadalajara, Mexico. We cannot overemphasize the urgency of this moment... If you have ever felt called to this work and thought, *?When the moment comes that I?m really needed, I?ll go,*? *now* is that time. Volunteers are needed as soon as possible, and will continue to be needed in the coming months. Learn more at http://connect.uusc.org/e/103112/volunteer-us-asylum-/31nhny/167004236. *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* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: UUCSJ.png Type: image/png Size: 23829 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ansel.ploog at gmail.com Sat Nov 24 09:15:41 2018 From: ansel.ploog at gmail.com (Ansel Ploog) Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2018 10:15:41 -0500 Subject: [SRCAction] Decolonizing Thanksgiving and SRC news Message-ID: <3718829C-B737-4021-A1B9-C90B12E9EBD6@gmail.com> Hi Folks, I hope everyone is having a peaceful and joyous beginning of winter! Belatedly, I?m sending you all some information from SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) on Thanksgiving. My personal goal for this holiday is to celebrate the harvest, reaffirm the bonds between living creatures that made it possible and acknowledge the pain and injustice behind it. It seems like a good opportunity to look into the past and decide what we will bring forward into a more just, peaceful future. Here?s a link to the Thanksgiving toolkit from SURJ: https://boldconversations.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/thanksgiving-toolkit-2018-1.pdf (pdf is also enclosed in this email) Lastly, the Social Responsibility committee meeting for Nov is scheduled for tomorrow, though because of the holiday, I am hoping that all will join me at the Thanksgiving leftovers potluck in the vestry. We will not have a meeting in Dec but will be back in January on the fourth Sunday of the month. Thank you all, peace and solidarity, Ansel Ploog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: thanksgiving-toolkit-2018-1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 215996 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: