SOCIAL JUSTICE & ALLIES FOR RACIAL EQUITY TEAM MEETINGS
We meet on the first TUESDAY of the month ( Oct 4th) 12:00 to 1:30pm. via ZOOM
All are welcome to attend; these meetings are your chance to provide input and contribute to our UUFH justice efforts. Please e-mail Charlotte Corrigan for additional information – i.e., agenda, prior minutes, and Zoom link – if you would like to participate.
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HIGHLIGHTS in this issue include:
- ARE ACTION ITEMS
- UU JUSTICE NC – ACTION HOUR info, Sept16: Reproductive Justice
- :ACTION ALERTS: UU the Vote, YOU CAN VOTE, PHONEBANKS and POSTCARDS Mountain True-protect our forests, farmland, and rural communities from sprawl.
- And more… FTKC volunteers, “Hard to Recycle” event, Pisgah Legal Services JUSTICE FORUM
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION
from Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson, Executive Director UU Justice NC
FRIDAY ACTION HOUR
Every Friday at 11:00am UUs from across the state gather to recap the past week and take action on the issues impacting our state and country. In the coming month, we’ll be focusing on the
upcoming municipal elections and will also keep the pressure on our elected officials to better
promote the HOPE program. We always have good music to help us feel the justice movement in our bones! Join us via this Zoom link.
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UU Justice NC NEWS
UU THE VOTE NC RETURNS SOON!
Launch plans are underway for a Get Out The Vote POSTCARD CAMPAIGN in partnership with Reclaim Our Vote.
Kitten Bulen, our UUFH – UU Justice NC liaison, is consulted with Lisa to map out the UUFH commitment and logistics – procurement of all materials for kits, assembly of kits, distribution to volunteers, and tracking of completed kits. Now that UU Justice NC has been awarded a $10,000 UU the Vote Postcard Project Grant, our UUFH order is official. The grant will cover the labels, postcards, etc. and the Social Justice Team budget will pay for the postage stamps for the UUFH campaign. We are one of twenty congregations statewide participating.
Kitten and Charlotte will keep you posted re UUFH efforts.
A message from Kitten:
VOTER REGISTRATION SIGNS & POSTCARD WRITING – VOLUNTEER! Hey UU’s –NEW volunteers and repeat postcard writing volunteers are needed to join in these endeavors! We need 20 volunteers to take ONE KIT (25 postcards) to write to designated voters in NC PLUS We need 8 volunteers to place bilingual voter registration signs – from YOU CAN VOTE – at specific spots in Henderson County. Email Kitten Bulen at buckeyebobbulen@nullbellsouth.net to volunteer.
For more Justice opportunities , see the current UUFH jUUstice Workers News
| MOUNTAIN TRUE ACTION ALERT: Protect Our Forests and Farms from Sprawl We need you to email the Henderson County Board of Commissioners and ask them to take action to prevent sprawl and protect our forests, farmland, and rural communities. |
| Henderson County is drafting its new Comprehensive Plan — the blueprint that will guide growth and development here for the next twenty years. As part of that process they have surveyed members of our community, and that survey shows broad support for conservation. Henderson County residents identified protection of open spaces and forests (55.30%), farmland preservation (45.16%), and conservation (35.04%) of unique natural areas as their top 3 priorities for the 2045 Henderson County Comprehensive Plan. Unfortunately, MountainTrue has serious concerns that the comprehensive plan being created by the county’s consultants is out of step with the desires and needs of Henderson County residents. The County has circulated a draft Future Land Use Map that prioritizes sprawl — development that spreads too far into the countryside, unnecessarily destroying forests, farmland, and rural communities — at great expense to taxpayers and against the desires of county residents. We need you to act today.Email your Henderson County Commissioners, and ask that they adopt a smart, responsible and sustainable comprehensive plan. Public input meeting schedule: Tuesday, Sept. 20 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Fletcher Library Monday, Sept. 26 from 6 to 8 p.m., Edneyville Community Center Tuesday, Sept. 27 from 2 to 4 p.m., Blue Ridge Community College, Thomas Auditorium All meetings will contain the same information regarding the draft 2045 Comprehensive Plan. County staff will provide a presentation on the draft plan at the start of the first hour and second hour of the meeting. Attendees are welcome to stop by at any time throughout the meeting. A discussion and question-and-answer session will follow the presentations. Children are welcome to attend. |
HARD TO RECYCLE EVENT
Saturday, September 17, at BRCC
Henderson County Solid Waste is partnering with Asheville GreenWorks to bring a Hard-to-Recycle event to the Patton parking lot of Blue Ridge Community College 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17.
Residents may drop off the packaging and food-grade Styrofoam (no packing peanuts), books, shredded paper, electronics, batteries, laptops, writing instruments (pens/mechanical pencils, glue sticks, watercolors, paint sets), razors and packaging; empty toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes and packaging, empty squeezable food pouches, Brita filters, animal sanctuary items, fencing materials, and bikes. TVs and CRT monitors are $10 each. Wooden console televisions are not accepted. The full list of accepted items can be found at www.hcrecycles.org.
Items not accepted include packing peanuts, paint, stains, sealers, light bulbs of all kinds, cooking or motor oils, hard plastics, vinyl, PVC, VHS/cassette tapes, plate glass, foam, wooden items or cement.
Henderson County and GreenWorks are seeking volunteers to help with the event. Please sign up here! (https://hard2recycle.org/volunteer/)
Miss the event? Some of these items are accepted at the Transfer Station and Convenience Center. Please visit the website hcrecycles.org or contact Henderson County Environmental Programs at (828) 694-6524 for more information.
FEED THE KIDS – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Since 2009, FTK has prepared and served over 60,000 meals at the Boys & Girls Club
(approx. 250+ kids per week – every Friday). The dates are shared and rotated among the various teams including ours.
Please consider giving an hour or two to one of these activities
Team #3 is made up of volunteers from Trinity Presbyterian Church, Agudus Israel Synagogue and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville. Team co-leader, Charlotte
Corrigan, would like to add a few more UUFH volunteers to the servers pool.
Contact Charlotte to learn more or to join the volunteer pool.
Our only job is feeding kids – would you like to be part of that? The smiles are worth it!
Pisgah Legal Services 2022 Justice Forum
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The more that we work together, the greater impact we have.