All members & friends are welcome to join the efforts of the Social Justice Outreach Team
Social Justice and ARE Teams are now meeting in joint session.at 1 pm on the first Wednesday of each month, via ZOOM
All are welcome to attend; these meetings are your chance to provide input and contribute to our UUFH justice efforts. Contact Charlotte Corrigan for more information – i.e., agenda, prior minutes, Zoom link – if you would like to participate.
ARE updates and news can be sent to Charlotte Corrigan for inclusion in emails, eBlasts and Justice Worker News.
JUSTICE SUNDAY – Youth Hunger
Our November 7 UU service will launch our first OUTREACH COLLECTION of the year and features two speakers – Kay Thomas of FEED the KIDS Coalition and Debby Staton of BackPack. Each will address problems and solutions for food insecurity experienced by one in five children in our county.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION
from Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson, Executive Director UU Justice NC
FRIDAY ACTION HOUR
Every Friday at 11:00 UUs from across the state gather to recap the past week and take action on the issues impacting our state and country. We always have good music to help us feel the justice movement in our bones! Join us via this Zoom link. If you can’t make it on Fridays, you can still take action at any time – just check our Weekly action list.
UU Justice NC ANNUAL GATHERING
A big thank you to everyone who attended our UU Justice NC Annual Gathering. What an amazing celebration of all that we have done together this year! If you missed it, here is our brand new 2021 Year in Review Video.
NOVEMBER 7:
UUSJ Social Justice Awards
This Sunday, November 7 at 4:00pm on Zoom. The event will include a keynote address from Rev. Mary Katherine Morn, President and CEO of the UU Service Committee, and a celebration this year’s nominees, including UU Church of Greensboro’s Donna Scheidt and UU Justice NC’s Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson. Click here to Buy Tickets.
NOVEMBER 9:
A Conversation on Policing and Racial Equity in our Criminal Justice System
November 9 from 7:00-8:30pm on Zoom. Hosted by the Unitarian Coastal Fellowship in Morehead City. The event will include a viewing of the short documentary, Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem (click on link for the film trailer), followed by a Q&A with Lisa A. “L.A.” Jones, a retired Warden of the Federal Prison System
The documentary covers the racial inequality inherent in our criminal justice system, stretching back to post-reconstruction, which charges 13 million Americans a year, mostly poor, Black and Brown people with misdemeanors.
REDISTRICTING MAPS UPDATE
NC Legislative and US Congressional district maps are being approved this week by the legislature, over the protests of minority Democrats and under the shadow of guaranteed legal challenges. The nonpartisan Princeton Gerrymandering Project has rated all three maps with an “F” grade.
CLIMATE JUSTICE CONGREGATIONAL PROJECT
Having received UUFH approval to continue with this vital project, we can now move forward with some on-hold activities and seek new opportunities for congregational education and action, including use of UUA/& UU Justice NC resources, and continuing UUtheVote advocacy, with a focus on fair redistricting and voter rights.
We’ll add a new emphasis on the 8th principle per a separate congregational vote held at our Annual Meeting.
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.”
For more information about the 8th Principle, see 8thprincipleuu.org/background. This UUA site is organized by responses to these key questions:
what is the origin?
why now?
why single out racism?
what is beloved community”
what does it mean to be accountable?
Henderson County COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING – SURVEY
Henderson County is starting comprehensive planning. This is an important opportunity for you to have a voice in how our county grows and develops to meet the challenges of climate change, a growing population, and increased pressures on our built and natural environments.
This link is MountainTrue’s guide, information about the survey:
At a MountainTrue program on November 3, “Sustainable, Responsible Growth”,
Chris Joyell, Director, Healthy Communities, and Gray Jernigan, Southern Regional Director & Green Riverkeeper, shared guidance to assist public participation in the Henderson County 2045 Comprehensive Plan.
The Comprehensive Plan will serve as the vision and guide for development for the next 25 years, and Henderson County is currently soliciting public input via a series of public meetings and a community survey available on the Henderson County Planning Department website. Complete County Survey HERE.
The more that we work together, the greater impact we have.