All members & friends are welcome to join the efforts of the Social Justice Outreach Team
The next Social Justice Outreach Team meeting is Wednesday, July 7th at 112:30 pm. This meeting will be the annual planning session for both SJOT AND ARE team memberships. All are welcome to attend; the meeting will be your chance to provide input and contribute to UUFH justice efforts.
Contact Charlotte Corrigan for more information if you would like to participate. The session will be held in person and offsite.
UU Forward Together — The UU Justice Ministry of North Carolina
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UUJMNC: OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION
from Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson, Executive Director Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of NC
FRIDAY ACTION HOUR
Join UU Forward Together every Friday at 11:00am for Friday Action Hour. Gather in community to recap the week and take action on issues impacting our state and country. Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/91029655107
Does the Friday session not work for you? You can still act; the link below will give you the talking points, addressee contacts and actions for this week’s Action Hour session.
Action(s) of the Week –
We Need a Budget that is For The People!
In partnership with the state-wide People’s Budget Coalition, we are calling on our State Representatives to make sure that housing, healthcare and workers’ rights are prioritized in the state budget. Take Action Here
People’s Budget Action Hour – Tuesday, July 6th at 7:00pm The UU Justice Ministry of NC and Carolina Jews for Justice are partnering to host a special Action Hour event. Currently, the NC General Assembly is creating the state’s budget, but the Senate’s proposed budget falls woefully short of addressing dire needs in our state, despite having 7.3 billion dollars in unallocated state funds available. At this event, we’ll receive a briefing on the NC People’s Budget demands and then take action – calling and writing our elected officials. Register Here!
CLIMATE JUSTICE CONGREGATIONAL PROJECT RENEWAL
At our meeting in May, SJOT formally approved renewing the Climate Justice Congregational Project for another year. Covid restrictions and vaccines likely will permit gatherings and activities on site in the coming months such as our long-postponed CJCP activities and events. The UUFH Board approved the proposed renewal at their May 11 meeting. The project was originally approved in February 2020 for 18 months ending on June 30.
At the June 13 Annual Meeting, a Fellowship vote okayed another year for this vital project.
We’ll move forward with some of the on-hold activities and seek new opportunities for congregational education and action including use of UUA/ & UUJMNC resources and continue UUtheVote advocacy with a focus on fair redistricting and voter rights. We’ll add a new emphasis on the 8th principle:
The 8th Principle states: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”
CLIMATE justice and RACIAL justice are inseparable. There is no climate justice without racial justice and the dismantling of white supremacy.
In our 2021-2022 budget submission, we allocated funds for the project to conduct educational workshops, film showings, book studies and onsite action.
OUTREACH COLLECTIONS:
SJOT conducted our final Outreach Collection for the year May 16 through June 11 to support safe and affordable housing needs. Your donations totaled $1725.
Collection recipients are Habitat for Humanity (habitat-hvl.org) and Housing Assistance Corporation (housing-assistance.com). who will each receive $776.25 while $172.50 (10%) will go into the SJOT Fund.
A formal report summarizing all 4 collections made this year will be issued in July.
From the Henderson County League of Women Voters:
Seeking Wisdom & Social Healing in a Time of Division
An invitation (more information at the link) on July 7th at 7:00 PM (EDT) to join an online conversation with Krista Tippett and Lucas Johnson.
In their work with the “On Being” show and the Civil Conversations & Social Healing Project, Krista and Lucas have engaged spiritual leaders, philosophers, teachers, neuroscientists and other thought leaders in explorations of wisdom that help us understand and engage each other as human beings across our differences. Explore how this wisdom can be put into action and why it is so important to the different types of healing that we need in our country at this time.
Please register here.
A zoom link to join the conversation will be sent a day before to all those that register.
JUSTICE WORKERS EMAIL LIST
We’ve created a new merged list “Justice Workers” as recommended by the leaders of the various groups (SJOT, ARE, Voter & Climate Justice) and approved by our UUFH Social Justice Team; our debut message “JUSTICE WORKER NEWS” was issued on Monday, April 12. The list is comprehensive and contains actions, events, and links that will inform and enable your justice efforts.
The more that we work together, the greater impact we have.
To join the Justice Workers list, contact Charlotte Corrigan with your request to OPT IN.
For information on upcoming training sessions with UUJMNC partners such as You Can Vote and Democracy NC, contact Charlotte Corrigan and/or sign up for weekly Justice Worker News emails.