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Good Trouble: John Lewis Democracy Vigils, Saturday, July 17th, 2021 (Various Locations/Times)

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Join us for The Good Trouble Vigils for Democracy on July 17 - the one year mark of the passing of Rep. John Lewis - as we carry on his legacy by hosting candlelight vigils nationwide to demand that Congress act to protect our freedom to vote and rebuild our democracy. Six months have … [Read more...]

Deadline for Democracy: June 28 – July 10, Pressure Congress for Voting Equity

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Yesterday, we launched our big plan for the upcoming congressional recess from June 28 - July 10: Deadline for Democracy. And now we’ve got just a few weeks to plan hundreds of events, drive thousands of signups, and get everything ready to put pressure on all 100 senators for real democracy … [Read more...]

JUUstice Washington’s Commitment to Racial Justice

In the long and continuous struggle to bend the arc of history toward justice and compassion and turn away from white supremacy, and racism more generally, JUUstice Washington  reaffirms our commitment to work to: 

  1. Dismantle systemic racism against people of color in education, employment, housing, voting rights, access to health care, safety and other areas of inequity; 
  2. Prevent and overturn the disproportionate effects of environmental degradation on communities of color; and 
  3. Implement equitable and ethical treatment in the criminal justice and judicial systems that disproportionately render inequitable treatment of people of color.

 

We are called to this work by Unitarian Universalist Principles and the Unitarian Universalist living tradition of supporting and leading social and environmental justice movements locally and in broader communities.

We are committed to engage in faithful discernment that we may know when to speak and when to listen, when to lead and when to follow, when to be an active presence and when to bear witness.  We are committed to the short- and long-term natures of achieving the goals of equity, justice and compassion.

We encourage all JUUstice Washington members and Unitarian Universalist congregations to move boldly forward to make this time in history a tipping point toward racial justice.

 

2022 Legislative Summit

Flyer announcing the 2022 Legislative Summit

JUUstice Washington Joins the Take Action Network (TAN)

Take Action Network: An Alternative way to engage with the LegislatureWe are working to focus our legislative advocacy positions and actions on the Take Action Network (TAN), a web platform designed by Indivisible Olympia and supported by Washington Indivisible Network, for those who want to be more civically engaged in Washington State legislative actions.

Please click on https://www.takeaction.network/users/new?invitation_token=heauycUyneq62Eu28HmFHg to join the Take Action Network.  You’ll be provided with an initial profile that will allow you to follow JUUstice Washington’s legislative advocacy work and actions and those of other advocacy organizations that most relate to your primary issues and the types of events and civil actions of most interest to you.  Some of the organizations using TAN include the Faith Action Network (FAN), Environmental Priorities Coalition, RE Sources, Fair Vote Washington, 350.WA, and many more.

TAN also allows you to customize the information you receive.  We hope that you will include actions and events from JUUstice Washington in your TAN list of sources.

See you there!

And, of course, we will continue to provide more information and additional events through our direct communications with you.  To learn more, you can also join the 3rd Tuesday Emergent Conversations each month organized by our JUUstice Washington Revitalization Project interns Sahar and Elle on our Facebook events page and through our e-blasts.

We will be making available TAN training information in the coming weeks to help you get the most out of this new resource.

We also encourage Washington UU congregations to facilitate their members joining TAN.  Feel free to use this text to do that. You can find more information on TAN here.

Things are happening fast in the State legislature, so jump onboard as soon as you can!

Travis MacPhee and John Hilke
JUUstice Washington Legislative Conveners