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Standing Rock withdraws from ongoing environmental assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline

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The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has withdrawn as a cooperating agency from the U.S Federal government’s ongoing environmental assessment of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) operations.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...]

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

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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...]

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

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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...]

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

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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...]

Red Road to DC Totem Pole Journey

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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...]

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