From melinda_moz at yahoo.com Tue Jun 4 18:33:57 2019 From: melinda_moz at yahoo.com (melinda_moz at yahoo.com) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 23:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [SRCAction] Community Pouch contributions and fall meeting Message-ID: <599395299.24389.1559691237056@mail.yahoo.com> Hello all- I am attaching the spreadsheet that Sam Rossier put together to show church contributions for September through April of 2017/18 and 2018/19. Thank you for all of your help and feedback through the process. Next year's meeting will be after church on October 6th. My goal is to have more of the church community come even if they aren't representing an organization. In this way we get feedback from a more diverse group of people and the entire church community feels heard. My plan is to put more announcements in the church newsletter leading up to the meeting, but if anyone has other ideas please let me know. You can contact me at melinda_moz at yahoo.com or 223-3157. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Pouch 2018-19 compared to 2017-18.xlsx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet Size: 13752 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ucm.revjoan at gmail.com Fri Jun 7 14:20:06 2019 From: ucm.revjoan at gmail.com (Rev. Joan Javier-Duval) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 15:20:06 -0400 Subject: [SRCAction] Mon, June 10: Learn about Migrant Justice's "No Polimigra" Organizing Message-ID: Hi, all, This Monday, June 10, 6-8PM, Migrant Justice will hold a training (in person and video conference) to teach allies how to stop the collaboration between police and federal immigration authorities. I will be on the call and I hope you will join me! (Use links below to register.) *Join us on June 10th and get involved in organizing your community to say ?No Polimigra!?* On Thursday, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed H.518 -- the ?No Polimigra? bill -- into law. Migrant Justice drafted and fought for this legislation. Its passage gives local communities more power to strengthen policies that stop the collaboration between police and federal immigration authorities (known in Spanish as ?polimigra?). For years, immigrants and communities of color have led the fight to address police profiling in Vermont through the creation of ?Fair and Impartial Policing policies? (FIPPs). Thanks to Migrant Justice, these FIPPs contain robust protections for immigrant rights, preventing police from asking about or investigating immigration status and making clear that local cops should not be in the business of immigration enforcement. Unfortunately, following Trump?s election -- and his threats against ?Sanctuary Cities? -- Vermont law enforcement chose to water down the state?s model FIPP, creating dangerous loopholes that allow for ongoing collaboration between local police and Trump?s deportation agents. The results have been disastrous: Vermont police continue to turn immigrants over to ICE, ending in their deportation and the separation of families. The passage of the No Polimigra bill gives law enforcement agencies discretion to strengthen their policies, putting a firewall between themselves and the feds. Crucially, H.518 makes clear that these policies will meet state requirements -- even if they draw the ire of Trump?s Department of Justice. But we know from experience that police and sheriff?s departments aren?t going to make these changes on their own. It will take local communities organizing to demand change. And that?s where you come in. *With this new law in place, it?s time to organize! Join Migrant Justice on Monday June 10th, 6-8pm to learn about how to organize to stop the Polimigra in your community. RSVP to participate by videoconference or in person at our Burlington office. * *Rev. Joan Javier-Duval* | *Minister* Pronouns: she/her/hers 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: