Calendar of Events

This is a free virtual summit for anyone interested in advancing their organizing and fueling progressive wins across the country! Join us on Oct 1-3, 2021 starting at noon ET on Friday.

The Progressive Power Summit is an opportunity to join progressives and level up your organizing skills to help create a better future. Here are just a few of the movement leaders we will learn from at this week’s summit: 

• Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the president and senior lecturer at Repairers of the Breach, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and architect of the Moral Mondays movement. We will hear from Rev. Dr. Barber about the fight to protect democracy, the historic context of voting rights and disenfranchisement in America, and how modern disenfranchisement impacts the makeup of individual state legislatures and Congress. 
• Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival with the Rev. Dr. Barber, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st-century America and has since emerged as one of the nation’s leading social movement forces.
• Maurice Mitchell is the national director of the Working Families Party. Maurice is a nationally recognized social movement strategist, a visionary leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a community organizer for racial, social, and economic justice. We will learn from Maurice about his reflections on our major wins in 2020 and how MoveOn members can tip the balance for progressive wins in battleground states in 2022. 
• The Honorable Tiffany D. Thomas is a member of the Houston City Council in Texas. She is the first Black woman and person under 40 to serve in this role, and she will speak with us about the importance of running for local office and how she won her city council race while working full-time.
• Morris Pearl and Erica Payne respectively serve as the chair and president of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans who are committed to making all Americans better off by building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation. We will talk with Morris and Erica about how the rich—and the politicians they try to control—manipulate the U.S tax code to ensure the rich get richer, and everyone else is left holding the bag.
• Texas State Representative Jasmine Crockett played an integral role in the push for federal voting rights legislation when she left the state for Washington, D.C., to block the passage of a GOP-backed voter suppression bill.

This is a free virtual summit for anyone interested in advancing their organizing and fueling progressive wins across the country! Join us on Oct 1-3, 2021 starting at noon ET on Friday.

The Progressive Power Summit is an opportunity to join progressives and level up your organizing skills to help create a better future. Here are just a few of the movement leaders we will learn from at this week’s summit: 

• Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the president and senior lecturer at Repairers of the Breach, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and architect of the Moral Mondays movement. We will hear from Rev. Dr. Barber about the fight to protect democracy, the historic context of voting rights and disenfranchisement in America, and how modern disenfranchisement impacts the makeup of individual state legislatures and Congress. 
• Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival with the Rev. Dr. Barber, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st-century America and has since emerged as one of the nation’s leading social movement forces.
• Maurice Mitchell is the national director of the Working Families Party. Maurice is a nationally recognized social movement strategist, a visionary leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a community organizer for racial, social, and economic justice. We will learn from Maurice about his reflections on our major wins in 2020 and how MoveOn members can tip the balance for progressive wins in battleground states in 2022. 
• The Honorable Tiffany D. Thomas is a member of the Houston City Council in Texas. She is the first Black woman and person under 40 to serve in this role, and she will speak with us about the importance of running for local office and how she won her city council race while working full-time.
• Morris Pearl and Erica Payne respectively serve as the chair and president of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans who are committed to making all Americans better off by building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation. We will talk with Morris and Erica about how the rich—and the politicians they try to control—manipulate the U.S tax code to ensure the rich get richer, and everyone else is left holding the bag.
• Texas State Representative Jasmine Crockett played an integral role in the push for federal voting rights legislation when she left the state for Washington, D.C., to block the passage of a GOP-backed voter suppression bill.

This is a free virtual summit for anyone interested in advancing their organizing and fueling progressive wins across the country! Join us on Oct 1-3, 2021 starting at noon ET on Friday.

The Progressive Power Summit is an opportunity to join progressives and level up your organizing skills to help create a better future. Here are just a few of the movement leaders we will learn from at this week’s summit: 

• Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the president and senior lecturer at Repairers of the Breach, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and architect of the Moral Mondays movement. We will hear from Rev. Dr. Barber about the fight to protect democracy, the historic context of voting rights and disenfranchisement in America, and how modern disenfranchisement impacts the makeup of individual state legislatures and Congress. 
• Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis is co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival with the Rev. Dr. Barber, which organized the largest coordinated wave of nonviolent civil disobedience in 21st-century America and has since emerged as one of the nation’s leading social movement forces.
• Maurice Mitchell is the national director of the Working Families Party. Maurice is a nationally recognized social movement strategist, a visionary leader in the Movement for Black Lives, and a community organizer for racial, social, and economic justice. We will learn from Maurice about his reflections on our major wins in 2020 and how MoveOn members can tip the balance for progressive wins in battleground states in 2022. 
• The Honorable Tiffany D. Thomas is a member of the Houston City Council in Texas. She is the first Black woman and person under 40 to serve in this role, and she will speak with us about the importance of running for local office and how she won her city council race while working full-time.
• Morris Pearl and Erica Payne respectively serve as the chair and president of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of hundreds of high-net-worth Americans who are committed to making all Americans better off by building a more prosperous, stable, and inclusive nation. We will talk with Morris and Erica about how the rich—and the politicians they try to control—manipulate the U.S tax code to ensure the rich get richer, and everyone else is left holding the bag.
• Texas State Representative Jasmine Crockett played an integral role in the push for federal voting rights legislation when she left the state for Washington, D.C., to block the passage of a GOP-backed voter suppression bill.

Everett/South Snohomish County – Tuesday, October 5, 7-9 PM Online via Zoom. Register here

Cluster Meetings are organized by FAN and the faith communities in our Network of Advocating Faith Communities (NAFC) in August, September, and October. Small, geographically grouped Cluster Meetings allow for greater opportunity for advocates and communities to interact. These meetings also allow for closer networking with FAN given the diversity of our state’s geographic areas.

The three main foci for meetings are:

1. To build closer relationships between all the faith communities of the specific Cluster group
2. To provide a space to hear advocacy updates from Advocating Faith Communities and FAN
3. To strategize together on advocacy plans/events for the coming year

How do we build hope? When we share our stories, move together for justice, and side with love we build hope! We know this and yet as co-chairs of the Commission on Social Witness, Alison and I have learned that hope is in short supply.

 Folx are overwhelmed, and it’s no wonder! The sheer scale of challenges we face in our personal lives coping with the pandemic, and in our hurting world, is unprecedented. Attacks on the transgender and gender nonconforming community, erosion of our basic right to vote, environmental crises leveling poor and POCI communities, and a global pandemic devastating folx who are already laboring in harsh conditions and lacking basic healthcare. We are all in need of some potent hope!

That is why Alison and I have created two hope-filled evenings

Register

“Defend and Advocate with Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Communities” with guest speakers:

“Stop Voter Suppression and Partner for Voting Rights and a Multiracial Democracy” with guest speakers 

 UU Social Witness Convenings on Oct. 6 & 13 - to gather together and side with love. 

South King County – Sunday, October 10, 2-4 PM Online via Zoom. Register here

Cluster Meetings are organized by FAN and the faith communities in our Network of Advocating Faith Communities (NAFC) in August, September, and October. Small, geographically grouped Cluster Meetings allow for greater opportunity for advocates and communities to interact. These meetings also allow for closer networking with FAN given the diversity of our state’s geographic areas.

The three main foci for meetings are:

1. To build closer relationships between all the faith communities of the specific Cluster group
2. To provide a space to hear advocacy updates from Advocating Faith Communities and FAN
3. To strategize together on advocacy plans/events for the coming year

End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock is the incredible story of a group of indigenous women who risk their lives to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that desecrated their ancient burial and prayer sites and threatens their land, water, and very existence. In the process, they must face the personal costs of leadership, even as their own lives and identities are left transformed by one of the great political and cultural events of the early 21st century.

Placing the courage of the women of Standing Rock in its true historic perspective, End of the Line cuts to the essence of this astonishing event — “the hearts of the women.”

Join our online screening via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96698666643

Trailer and more info: https://meaningfulmovies.org/events/end-of-the-line-the-women-of-standing-rock/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/861974397653551

End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock is the incredible story of a group of indigenous women who risk their lives to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that desecrated their ancient burial and prayer sites and threatens their land, water, and very existence. In the process, they must face the personal costs of leadership, even as their own lives and identities are left transformed by one of the great political and cultural events of the early 21st century.

Placing the courage of the women of Standing Rock in its true historic perspective, End of the Line cuts to the essence of this astonishing event — “the hearts of the women.”

Join our online screening via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96698666643

Trailer and more info: https://meaningfulmovies.org/events/end-of-the-line-the-women-of-standing-rock/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/861974397653551

End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock is the incredible story of a group of indigenous women who risk their lives to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that desecrated their ancient burial and prayer sites and threatens their land, water, and very existence. In the process, they must face the personal costs of leadership, even as their own lives and identities are left transformed by one of the great political and cultural events of the early 21st century.

Placing the courage of the women of Standing Rock in its true historic perspective, End of the Line cuts to the essence of this astonishing event — “the hearts of the women.”

Join our online screening via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96698666643

Trailer and more info: https://meaningfulmovies.org/events/end-of-the-line-the-women-of-standing-rock/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/861974397653551

East King County – Tuesday, October 12, 7-9 PM Online via Zoom. Register here

Cluster Meetings are organized by FAN and the faith communities in our Network of Advocating Faith Communities (NAFC) in August, September, and October. Small, geographically grouped Cluster Meetings allow for greater opportunity for advocates and communities to interact. These meetings also allow for closer networking with FAN given the diversity of our state’s geographic areas.

The three main foci for meetings are:

1. To build closer relationships between all the faith communities of the specific Cluster group
2. To provide a space to hear advocacy updates from Advocating Faith Communities and FAN
3. To strategize together on advocacy plans/events for the coming year

How do we build hope? When we share our stories, move together for justice, and side with love we build hope! We know this and yet as co-chairs of the Commission on Social Witness, Alison and I have learned that hope is in short supply.

 Folx are overwhelmed, and it’s no wonder! The sheer scale of challenges we face in our personal lives coping with the pandemic, and in our hurting world, is unprecedented. Attacks on the transgender and gender nonconforming community, erosion of our basic right to vote, environmental crises leveling poor and POCI communities, and a global pandemic devastating folx who are already laboring in harsh conditions and lacking basic healthcare. We are all in need of some potent hope!

That is why Alison and I have created two hope-filled evenings

Register

“The COVID-19 Pandemic: Justice. Healing. Courage.” with guest speakers

“Undoing Systemic White Supremacy: A Call to Prophetic Action" with guest speakers 

UU Social Witness Convenings on Oct. 6 & 13 - to gather together and side with love. 

Join us for a training series on listening, curiosity, conversation, and practical skills. This will help you have successful deep canvassing conversations to move folks toward progressive values and action in your community. The training is a four-part series of sessions that build on each other -- please join us for all four if you can, but drop-ins are also welcome. Please note that you must register for each individual session.

Part 1: Wednesday, September 1 at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT

Part 2: Tuesday, September 14 at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT

Part 3: Wednesday, September 29 at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT

Part 4: Wednesday, October 13 at 7:30pm ET / 4:30pm PT