Currently there are two bills before our federal legislators. Take action and contact the folks below. S. 3622 – Indian Tribal Government Coronavirus Disaster Assistance Cost Share Relief Act, which would waive the 25 percent non-federal cost share that tribes must currently provide to receive … [Read more...]
ACTION ALERT! Show your Solidarity Today with WA’s Farmworkers: Covid-19 Protections Now!
Familias Unidas por la Justicia and Community to Community Development are currently supporting six farmworker strikes in Yakima County in solidarity with workers who have walked off the job due to health and safety concerns around Covid-19. Workers at Allan Brothers Fruit walked out on May 7 after … [Read more...]
Haaland Files Bicameral, Bipartisan Legal Brief to Protect Tribe’s Land From Executive Infringement
Today, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (NM-01) filed a bicameral, bipartisan amicus brief against unprecedented action to remove Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s land from tribal trust status. The brief, signed by 25members of Congress, was filed in Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe v. United States Department of the … [Read more...]
How White Backlash Controls American Progress
The backlashers have been out in force at recent anti-social-distancing protests, which have been dominated by white people proclaiming that public-health measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are robbing them of their birthright of liberty. Making the connection to prior backlashes explicit, … [Read more...]
General Assembly 2020 is Online!
This year, the UUA General Assembly will be online, June 24 - 28. You can register at https://uua.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/PublicSignIn.aspx?&SessionID=fg4fa3fh0fg6ff3&Lang=* The online registration fee is much less than the normal fee, and there will be no travel costs. There will be … [Read more...]
Pacific Northwest Land & Water Protectors Webinar, May 28, 2020, online
Across the Pacific Northwest, Indigenous land and water protectors are continuing to fight back against the threat of oil and gas exports through their traditional lands. From Wet’suwet’en territory to the Klamath River and beyond, these battles to stop fossil fuels are connected. Please join a … [Read more...]
Phone Action in Solidarity with Washington COVID-19 Farmworker Strike
Sunrise Seattle is organizing a remote phone action every day during the week of May 18 in solidarity with the Washington state farmworkers currently striking for COVID-19 protections and hazard pay. Click here to sign up for a shift to take action at the same time as others, or use the following … [Read more...]
Online Seminar – Dying of Whiteness: The politics of racial resentment with Dr. Jonathan Metzl, May 26, 2020
Dying of Whiteness: The politics of racial resentment with Dr. Jonathan Metzl. Join Dr. Jonathan Metzl (physician,psychiatrist, sociologist, and author) and look at what it will take to overcome the politics of white resentment and steer the nation toward cooperation, compassion, and unity. In … [Read more...]
More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy
Historically, young migrants who showed up at the border without adult guardians were provided with shelter, education, medical care and a lengthy administrative process that allowed them to make a case for staying in the United States. Those who were eventually deported were sent home only after … [Read more...]
Protect Farm Workers’ Rights to Demand COVID-Safe Work Environment, May 18, 2020
We are currently in the midst of an unprecedented strike wave in the fruit processing plants of the Yakima valley. Strikes like these have not been seen in WA State since the 1980s. Packing shed workers and their families are organizing in solidarity across six picket lines to stop retaliation for … [Read more...]
‘Virtual’ Hearings Are Silencing Indigenous Voices in Alaska
Throughout April, in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, BLM held “virtual” public hearings to gather input on ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project, a massive oil-and-gas drilling plan that will transform a vast expanse of Arctic tundra into a sacrifice zone for industry. Earthjustice is representing … [Read more...]
Seattle artist fights anti-Asian racism in the Chinatown-International District
In mid-April, a Chinatown-International District restaurant owner witnessed a group of men with dark sunglasses and face coverings plastering stickers with slogans like “America First” and “Better dead than red” in the neighborhood. The Seattle Police Department’s Bias Crimes Unit is … [Read more...]
When the Chehalis floods again, who pays the price?
Over the past few weeks, as the potential impacts of a dam have become clear, lines have been drawn between members of a group bound by state law to work together. The Chehalis Tribe has opposed construction of a dam on the river for years, and the Quinault Indian Nation declared its opposition to … [Read more...]
A timeline from birth to death of Taseko’s embattled New Prosperity mine in B.C.
The Supreme Court of Canada rejected an appeal by a mining company that has, for decades, been fighting to construct a gold and copper mine in an area considered sacred to the Tsilhqot'in First Nation The Taseko Mines saga to construct the New Prosperity gold and copper mine has likely, … [Read more...]
Differing viewpoints on COVID-19 Reservation Road Blocks
Here are a few articles addressing the issue of Cheyenne and Sioux Nations' reservation road blocks during the pandemic: South Dakota tribe: Sovereignty allows checkpoints Update: Tribes respond to Noem's demands to remove highway checkpoints. This one is particularly important as it includes … [Read more...]
Movement to End Deportations and Detention
It's Time Our Elected Officials #ActOnIt and Move Their Talk into Action to #FreeThemAll Go to https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2632349890425924 to watch and share La Resistencia’s latest video, featuring testimonies from family members with detained loved ones, Senator Rebecca Saldaña, essential … [Read more...]
Race and the Quarantined City
Lately, the coronavirus has got me thinking a lot about the racial dynamics of containment. Under the quarantine, much has been made of Americans’ regulated lack of mobility. But our cities have long kept their black residents contained and at the margins. Populations trapped in place are easier to … [Read more...]
MASS INCARCERATION POSES A UNIQUELY AMERICAN RISK IN THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
There are currently 2.3 million people incarcerated in U.S. jails and prisons. The U.S. accounts for 4 percent of the world’s population and 21 percent of its prisoners. While incarcerated people have been released in trickles across the country as the U.S. has become the global epicenter of the … [Read more...]
Sign Petition in Support of the Natural Disaster and Emergency Ballot Act of 2020
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson need your help to make sure all our voices are heard in November. They, along with their friend, Michelle Obama, co-chair When We All Vote, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the race and age voting gap. "Yes, we had COVID-19. Yes, we made the … [Read more...]
UUs for a Just Economic Community Webinar: $ The Green New Deal $ Yes We Can! May 14, 2020
Too often the argument “How can we possible pay for it?” stops any further discussion of implementing the Green New Deal. Join UUJEC for a webinar on how to change conventional thinking. A “can do” attitude can make impressive headway, both against global warming and the social, economic, political … [Read more...]
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