[SRCAction] Fwd: All In 4 Intersectional Justice: Elections Webinar 8-14, Climate Strike 9-20, Close Homestead Detention Camp & More Justice!

Sun Aug 11 14:02:24 CDT 2019

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Peace,

*Rev. Joan Javier-Duval* | *Minister*
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Unitarian Church of Montpelier
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*"We are each other's harvest; **we are each other's business; we are each
other's magnitude and bond." --Gwendolyn Brooks*

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From: Susan Leslie <sleslie at uua.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:37 PM
Subject: All In 4 Intersectional Justice: Elections Webinar 8-14, Climate
Strike 9-20, Close Homestead Detention Camp & More Justice!
To: Joan Javier-Duval <ucm.revjoan at gmail.com>

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*Just Acts: All In 4 Intersectional Justice: Elections Webinar 8-14,
Climate Strike 9-20, Close Homestead Detention Camp & More Justice!*
Dear Joan,

*The truth will set us free…. if we organize around it. Truth: Humanity
faces a climate emergency. Truth: People and most certainly children do not
belong in cages. Truth: We can build power through participating in
strategic campaigns for climate, migrant, racial, indigenous, and lgbtq
justice. Truth: We need a massive voter registration and Get Out the Vote
effort in 2020. Bold loving action, including direct action, prophetic
truth-telling, democracy and electoral justice are needed now. Take heart.
There are millions of people show share our values who are yearning and
acting to get free and create justice. We UUs can do our part and we can
rely on our faith to sustain us. So… pace yourselves and keep building the
movement because we are going to bring about change starting in this new
congregational year.*

We’ve got resources, actions, and campaigns for us all to take action
collectively this summer, this fall, and through November 2020 and beyond.
Please participate as you can, and where you are particularly called, and
share with others. We can’t individually all do everything but together we
can fight for the dignity of our people, the sustainability of our
environment, and the creation of democratic processes for living together
on this planet.

1) Democracy & Electoral Justice 2020
Join us for a Webinar on Democracy & Electoral Justice 2020 - Wednesday,
August 14th, 7 pm ET/4 pm PT. Register now!
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Speakers include:

   - Adam Eichen--Co-Author of Daring Democracy (Beacon Press, 2007)
   - Charlene Sinclair--Center for Race, Religion and Economic Democracy
   - Everette Thompson--Side with Love Campaign Manager
   - UU State Action Networks & UUSJ in DC representatives
   - Susan Leslie--Congregational Advocacy & Witness Director

We will explore strategies and share resources from now through Elections
2020 and beyond, focusing on three phases of engagement from massive voter
registration, ballot initiatives and advocacy, and all out Get Out the
Vote! Register now.
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2) Migrant, Refugee & Asylum-Seeker Justice

   - #CloseTheCamps. Through our coalition efforts we have shut down the
   detention camps in Tornillo and Carrizo Springs, TX, prevented Ft. Sill in
   Oklahoma from becoming a detention camp, and seen 1,500 youth released from
   the Homestead Florida camp.
   - The fact that the Department of Health and Human services is now
   saying it will eventually close these camps

proves that they never had to cage these kids but rather have chosen to
carry out the cruel policies of the administration. We need to keep the
pressure on Homestead and ensure that the 17 year olds there are released
before they turn 18 as they are being handed over to adult detention
centers on their birthdays! We will close Homestead and keep on fighting to
close all detention centers and get justice for migrants, asylum seekers,
and refugees. Here’s what we need you to do:

   1. Contact your Member of Congress and ask them to support the Child
         Prison Camps Act and Families Not Facilities Act. We are gaining
         new opponents as the Trump administration’s detention camps
become more
         exposed and there is ‘division in the ranks.’ Senator Inhofe
of Oklahoma is
         one of the most conservative senators in the country and he
rejected the
         use of Ft. Sill to cage migrant children. Our partners at the American
         Friends Service Committee have set up an action center here
         <http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61900>
         .
         2. Participate in an in-district visit to your representative to
         Defund Hate - no more money for ICE and Border Patrol.
Research shows that
         these visits are the most effective ways of changing votes.
The UUSC has
         put together resources to use
         <http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61897>
         to arrange visits from August 19-30.
         3. Volunteer for the vigils at Homestead - sign up here
         <http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61899>
         .

   - Expanded Community Sanctuary: In addition to closing the camps we are
   working to protect our community members who are subjected to raids and
   deportations. The joint UUA-UUSC Love Resists campaign
   <http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61906>
   is supporting congregations participating in community protection networks,
   rapid response, and expanded sanctuary. For congregations providing
   sanctuary, and whose guests are being threatened by ICE with fines in the
   hundreds of thousands of dollars, UURISE
   <http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61904>
   (UU Refugee & Immigrant Services & Education) can also support you.

   - Defend No More Deaths, a ministry of the UU Church of Tucson: Dr.
   Scott Warren will face trial for a second time this November on two counts
   of felony harboring for offering food, water, clean clothes and beds to two
   men from Central America. This re-trial is a blatant attempt to intimidate
   people everywhere who believe care and compassion should not be
   criminalized.

No More Deaths is hosting a short-term volunteer program in support of
Scott’s legal defense campaign. From September to November 2019, they are
welcoming volunteers from around the world for two weeks or longer to come
support their community outreach efforts in southern Arizona. You can find more
information here
<http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61907>
.

Stay tuned for upcoming actions. Our coalition is developing a strategy to
take us through Nov. 2020 and beyond. Love Knows No Borders!
3) Create Climate Justice

   - Save the Date: Global Climate Strike Sept. 20-27
   <http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61902>.
   It’s not climate change, it’s a climate emergency. The UUA is partnering
   with 350.org, Extinction Rebellion (XR), Sunrise Movement and others who
   have answered Greta Thuberg’s call with youth from around the planet to
   join the Global Climate Strike with a huge kick off on Sept. 20th and
   various actions throughout the week. Only our governments have the power to
   stop the fossil-fuel economy. Leaders of this movement, who have studied
   social movements that have led to real change, estimate that when 3.5% of
   the population is willing to strike or risk arrest or participate in
   ongoing protest that governments will respond. Our UUA Organizing Strategy
   Team will be sending out a Create Climate Justice alert next week with a
   sign up for UUs and listings of events. If you are not already
subscribed, sign
   up here
   <http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61898>
   and check Create Climate Justice.

   - Register for the UU Create Climate Justice Conference on the Green New
   Deal
   <http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61903>
   - Sept. 15-17 in Washington, DC.

4) Disrupt Mass Incarceration and End Cash Money Bail

Join Black Lives UU & Love Resists to disrupt mass incarceration and end
cash money bail!

Download their End Money Bail Community Workbook and sign up to facilitate
a group. See Love Resists resources
<http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61901>
on how mass incarceration starts with money bail, our freedom starts with
ending it!
5) Support the Equality Act
The Equality Act would amend existing civil rights law — including the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit
Opportunity Act, the Jury Selection and Services Act, and several laws
regarding employment with the federal government — to explicitly include
sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics.
The UUA is a member of the Equality Act Faith Coalition. Our goal is to
organize in all 50 states on behalf of the rights of LGBTQ people. Later
this year, the LGBTQ office will be offering an Equality Act webinar for
the Five Practices of Welcome Renewal to prepare that Unitarian
Universalist for the battle ahead.

For more information on the Equality Act visit: Center For American Program
- Infographic: The Equality Act Explained
<http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61908>
or contact Rev. Michael J. Crumpler, UUA LGBTQ & Multicultural Programs
Director in Ministries and Faith Development; (617) 948-6417 or
mcrumpler at uua.org.
6) Post GA 2019 News
Three Actions of Immediate Witness
<http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61910>
on the Green New Deal, Palestinian rights, and the rights of immigrants
were affirmed by the delegates and a Statement of Conscience on the
Corruption of Our Democracy was adopted.
7) 2019 Recipient of the Bennett Award for Congregational Action on Human
Justice and Social Action
The 2019 Recipient of the Bennett Award for Congregational Action on Human
Justice and Social Action is The Unitarian Society, A UU Congregation in
East Brunswick, NJ for their Lost Souls Public Memorial Project commemorating
over 177 Black people who were enslaved by a county judge who had a street
named in his honor in their community.
The project exposes this shameful history, educates the community, and
builds community partnerships. Read more
<http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61909>
here.  Nominations
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for the 2020 Bennett Award
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will be due March 16th, 2020.
We at the UUA Organizing Strategy Team are looking forward to continuing to
work with you in this coming year! Later this month we will be welcoming in
our new Director, the Rev. Ashley Horan. Read the UUA Announcement here
<http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61912>.
To learn more about our Team’s priorities and work and how we can support
you see www.uua.org/TakeItHome2019
<http://uua874.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=c2a3d74f17fba5eddb4600c0bac45ab0&i=1616A3466A28A61913>.

In love & solidarity,
Susan
Susan Leslie
Congregational Advocacy & Witness Director
UUA Organizing Strategy Team
sleslie at uua.org, 617-948-4607, www.uua.org/justice
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