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Why Remove The 4 Lower Snake River Dams?

July 4, 2022 by webmaster Leave a Comment

The Northwest would not be what it is today without hydroelectricity from the region’s dams. Yet one simple fact remains: not all dams are created equal. Below is a list of commonly asked questions about Columbia and Snake River salmon and the four lower Snake River dams with answers from regional … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, FAIN Salish Sea, Snake River Resources, Uncategorized

Washington Environmental Council Dinner Hour Videos on the Removal of the Snake River Dams

July 1, 2022 by webmaster Leave a Comment

The 6th episode in this series will be on July 27th. Check here for more info and updates on the dinner hour. https://youtu.be/ePS3G1Wr7G4 https://youtu.be/AA3GMX6rCB8 https://youtu.be/zVWXrxdNrJI https://youtu.be/6JyMBxrHfdo https://youtu.be/7l0zePzjMgg   … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Snake River, Snake River Resources, Uncategorized

June 3, 2022 by webmaster Leave a Comment

Watch this video of a recent massive mobilization call to alert allies and friends from coast to coast that Wet’suwet’en people need their help to Stop The Drilling under their sacred headwaters, Wedzin Kwa. Attendees will hear from Sleydo’, Chief Na’Moks, and Chief Woos about what’s happening right … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: News, Environmental Justice, News, FAIN, News, FAIN Salish Sea

Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline

March 2, 2022 by webmaster Leave a Comment

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has withdrawn as a cooperating agency from the U.S Federal government’s ongoing environmental assessment of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) operations. Standing Rock attributed their decision to the lack of transparency by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Dakota Access Pipeline, News, FAIN

Flood public comments to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline!

March 2, 2022 by webmaster Leave a Comment

The fight to stop the Dakota Access pipeline isn’t over, and you can help right now! This month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will take public comment on DAPL’s fatally flawed Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Sign up to be first in line to tell the Corps to conduct a proper environmental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Dakota Access Pipeline, News, FAIN

State Action is Crucial

December 19, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

On December 19, 2021, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia announced that he would not support the Build Back Better bill (BBBB), which contained a number of climate actions as well as social programs. The Biden Administration has worked with Senator Manchin and other legislators on compromises to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Carbon Accountability, News, Climate Justice, News, Legislative Advocacy

Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

November 22, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

For a full report of COP 26 (November 2021) see https://enb.iisd.org/Glasgow-Climate-Change-Conference-COP26 Washington State is not directly a party to the climate change agreement, but we are a member of America is All In, an organization that represents states, cities and private organizations … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Carbon Accountability, News, Climate Justice

Environmental Priorities for 2022 Legislative Session

November 21, 2021 by webmaster 1 Comment

The Environmental Priorities Coalition, which includes environmental groups such as the Washington Environmental Council and the Sierra Club, and faith groups such as Faith Action Network, met recently to set priorities. The following is a list of top priorities as described by the Sierra … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Climate Justice, News, Environmental Justice, News, Legislative Advocacy

Unitarian Indian Boarding School and WA Interfaith Response to the Burials

July 27, 2021 by webmaster 3 Comments

For those of you who are not aware, literally thousands of bodies of Indian children are being discovered and exhumed from boarding school sites all across the continent.  Yes, Unitarian Universalists also had missionaries running board schools.  Sec. Haaland has ordered review of all US Boarding … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, FAIN, News, Truth & Reconciliation news

The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe calls on Seattle to remove the Gorge Dam

July 26, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

This article is one of a pair of stories about the Skagit River and the federal process to relicense three major hydroelectric dams along its length. Read the companion story here. As he explored his ancestral homeland, Schuyler visited the upper Skagit River Valley, where he encountered the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, FAIN, News, FAIN Salish Sea

CHANGING THE NARRATIVE ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS A GUIDE FOR ALLIES

July 7, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

Being Native American may mean being deeply involved in protecting, teaching and advancing the knowledge and traditions of one’s tribe(s). Or it may mean being less connected to tribal communities while maintaining unique Native American identities in other ways within the larger society. There is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, FAIN, News, FAIN

If you don’t know treaties and sovereignty, you don’t know history

July 7, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

There’s a widespread notion that “tribal sovereignty” and “Indian treaties” are legal, historical, practical and correct terms. Actually, sovereignty is sovereignty, and treaties are treaties, nation to nation is between and among sovereigns; the use of “tribal” or “Indian” or any modifier is both … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, FAIN

Reclaiming Native Truth – Lessons Learned from Standing Rock

July 7, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

The movement at Standing Rock significantly undermined the systemic erasure of Native peoples from the dominant American narrative. At a time when most Americans continued to believe that Native Americans and Nations no longer exist in the United States, Americans were presented with a movement that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, FAIN, News, Dakota Access Pipeline, News, FAIN

CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS REACH PEAK IN 4 MILLION YEARS, WHAT THIS MEANS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

June 16, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May. These are the highest carbon dioxide levels in over four million years. The last time that the atmosphere held comparable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Climate Justice, News, Environmental Justice

In Tulsa, Faith Leaders Call for Massacre Reparations

June 8, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

UU World This year, on its centennial, the Tulsa Race Massacre is drawing enormous attention in national and international media. The eyes of the world are on Tulsa, and as the city questions how to atone for the horror—indeed, how to give it proper recognition—local churches, including All Souls … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Racial Justice

Diversity training on WA college campuses will soon be mandatory

June 8, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

Crosscut by Hannah Krieg / May 31, 2021 On May 12, the Gov. Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5227, which mandates that Washington’s 40 public colleges and universities conduct training sessions and assessments for both faculty and staff around diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism starting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Racial Justice

Governor Signs Climate Bills

May 15, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

Governor Inslee signed several of the big environmental bills of the 2021 session on Monday, May 18 in Seattle at various locations. Bills included SB 5126 (the Climate Commitment Act), HB 1091 (Clean Fuels); and SB 5141 (HEAL Act). He vetoed provisions in 5126 and 1091 that would have made … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Carbon Accountability, News, Climate Justice, News, Environmental Justice

Zero Emissions Vehicles HB 1287

May 9, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

The legislature passed HB 1287, the zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) bill, after it was amended to “establish a goal that all publicly and privately owned passenger and light duty vehicles of model year 2030 or later sold, purchased, or registered in Washington state be electric vehicles, contingent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Carbon Accountability, News, Climate Justice, News, Environmental Justice

2nd Call for Support:  Bring Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut Home!

May 1, 2021 by webmaster Leave a Comment

Netse Mot:  Support Lummi Nation and Xw’ullemy (the Salish Sea)  2nd Call for Support:  Bring Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut Home! JUUstice Washington has signed . . . Board of Trustees of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship has signed . . . Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship’s Social and Environmental … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Environmental Justice, News, FAIN, News, FAIN Salish Sea, News, Tokitae, Take Action

Red Road to DC Totem Pole Journey

April 22, 2021 by webmaster 1 Comment

Below is the the bare bones schedule of stops so far on the Red Road to DC Totem Pole Journey.  For details right now, you have to go the the “Our Shared Responsibility” Facebook page and look up events. The schedule is changing minute by minute so please follow on Facebook!  Please pass this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News, Climate Justice, News, Environmental Justice, News, FAIN, News, FAIN Salish Sea, News, FAIN TPJ

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Change the World . . .

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

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