Calendar of Events

Inspired by Solutionary Rail's vision and relevance to so many of the issues facing us?  Join our Organizing Meeting on Monday. 

RSVP: SolutionaryRail.org/040521

All who are enthusiastic about rail, climate solutions, clean energy transmission, or environmental justice are welcome!

Join us in a panel discussion moderated by Rev. Bianca Davis-Lovelace (WaPPC Chair & ED of REACH) around ending and preventing homelessness. Topics will include:

• Rent relief
• $15 minimum wage
• Governmental response to houselessness
• Housing insecurity during a pandemic
• and  more!

More

YOU MUST REGISTER HERE TO GET THE ZOOM LINK (limited to 500 registrants):

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkf-6srD8jHd3AlrpcA4UAPccnYHZC0ioF

Sponsored by: REACH (Renton Ecumenical Association of Churches), WA Poor People's Campaign, Local WFSE 843, Legacy of Equality & Leadership Organizing (LELO), Seattle Indivisible, and more.

Anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment are on the rise across the US -- and the world. In this virtual workshop hosted on zoom, and co-sponsored by Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC) and Hollaback!, we'll learn how you can intervene effectively as a bystander without ever compromising your safety.  More information and additional dates at https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/?link_id=2&can_id=95304b7eab06a08cbcaa7ac6e5471d37&source=email-we-stand-with-the-aapi-community&email_referrer=email_1118464&email_subject=over-30000-people-registered-for-this-training-last-week.

Join the Unitarian Universalist Association, UU Ministry For Earth, UU Service Committee and Love Resists for a letter writing campaign to show solidarity with Steve Martinez, a NoDAPL political prisoner who has been recently incarcerated after refusing to face a grand jury for a second time. Steve, an Indigenous water protector, was first subpoenaed to a federal grand jury in 2017 for his participation in the NoDAPL resistance movement and refused to comply then as now. This recent targeting came as a disconcerting surprise to many who have been supporting water protector political prisoners for the past four years. On the call, hear from Water Protectors and UU organizers about Steve’s current legal situation, and write your own letter to Steve and other NoDAPL political prisoners.

Register here

Another way to support is to DONATE to Steve Martinez’s GoFundMe.

Tuesday April 6, 7-8:30 pm, Olympia and Tacoma Fellowship of Reconciliation chapters present a meeting with Zoltan Grossman on Fascism and Right-wing Ideology. He's a geography professor at The Evergreen State College and well-known activist in Olympia.  
 
This joint meeting will offer some background information on the “Destructive Divisions” our Spring WWFOR Assembly will address. Olympia members who wish to attend via Zoom may contact Fred Silsby fsilsby970@gmail.com for the full link. All will be welcomed.
 
More info in future emails and to be posted at https://wwfor.org/calendar/

Put on by the Catholic Climate Covenant Listening to, learning from, and accompanying Native American peoples in the spirit of Laudato Si’ Pope Francis wrote in Laudato Si’, “[I]t is essential to show special care for indigenous communities and their cultural traditions. They are not merely one minority among others, but should be the principal dialogue partners, especially when large projects affecting their land are proposed. For them, land is not a commodity but rather a gift from God and from their ancestors who rest there, a sacred space with which they need to interact if they are to maintain their identity and values. When they remain on their land, they themselves care for it best.” [i]  He further stated in 2018, “How much we can learn from them! The lives of indigenous peoples “are a living memory of the mission that God has entrusted to us all: the protection of our common home.”[ii] In the spirit of encounter—a hallmark of this papacy—and as we seek to carry forth with indigenous peoples on this continent, expressed in the aspiration of the Synod on the Amazon:  “It is incumbent upon all of us to be custodians of God's work. The protagonists of the care, protection and defence of the rights of peoples and the rights of nature in this region are the Amazon communities themselves. They are the agents of their own destiny, of their own mission. In this scenario, the role of the Church is to be an ally.  The role of the Church is to strengthen this capacity of support and participation.” [iii] Register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bML1dJYgRqCt866UDkJHUg?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=34adcaf5-5c3e-40c9-b808-1bb6bb19afb0

Put on by the Catholic Climate Covenant Listening to, learning from, and accompanying Native American peoples in the spirit of Laudato Si’ Pope Francis wrote in Laudato Si’, “[I]t is essential to show special care for indigenous communities and their cultural traditions. They are not merely one minority among others, but should be the principal dialogue partners, especially when large projects affecting their land are proposed. For them, land is not a commodity but rather a gift from God and from their ancestors who rest there, a sacred space with which they need to interact if they are to maintain their identity and values. When they remain on their land, they themselves care for it best.” [i]  He further stated in 2018, “How much we can learn from them! The lives of indigenous peoples “are a living memory of the mission that God has entrusted to us all: the protection of our common home.”[ii] In the spirit of encounter—a hallmark of this papacy—and as we seek to carry forth with indigenous peoples on this continent, expressed in the aspiration of the Synod on the Amazon:  “It is incumbent upon all of us to be custodians of God's work. The protagonists of the care, protection and defence of the rights of peoples and the rights of nature in this region are the Amazon communities themselves. They are the agents of their own destiny, of their own mission. In this scenario, the role of the Church is to be an ally.  The role of the Church is to strengthen this capacity of support and participation.” [iii] Register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bML1dJYgRqCt866UDkJHUg?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=34adcaf5-5c3e-40c9-b808-1bb6bb19afb0

Put on by the Catholic Climate Covenant Listening to, learning from, and accompanying Native American peoples in the spirit of Laudato Si’ Pope Francis wrote in Laudato Si’, “[I]t is essential to show special care for indigenous communities and their cultural traditions. They are not merely one minority among others, but should be the principal dialogue partners, especially when large projects affecting their land are proposed. For them, land is not a commodity but rather a gift from God and from their ancestors who rest there, a sacred space with which they need to interact if they are to maintain their identity and values. When they remain on their land, they themselves care for it best.” [i]  He further stated in 2018, “How much we can learn from them! The lives of indigenous peoples “are a living memory of the mission that God has entrusted to us all: the protection of our common home.”[ii] In the spirit of encounter—a hallmark of this papacy—and as we seek to carry forth with indigenous peoples on this continent, expressed in the aspiration of the Synod on the Amazon:  “It is incumbent upon all of us to be custodians of God's work. The protagonists of the care, protection and defence of the rights of peoples and the rights of nature in this region are the Amazon communities themselves. They are the agents of their own destiny, of their own mission. In this scenario, the role of the Church is to be an ally.  The role of the Church is to strengthen this capacity of support and participation.” [iii] Register here:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bML1dJYgRqCt866UDkJHUg?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=34adcaf5-5c3e-40c9-b808-1bb6bb19afb0

The Earth is now experiencing human-caused climate disruption at an ever-accelerating pace. At present, even the best case mitigation strategies will not stave off catastrophic changes that are already heated into the biosphere. How, then, shall we Live? The talk will give a brief overview of how far along we are with climate disruption, then shift into spending the majority of time addressing how we find meaning, and purpose, during such a time.

Click here to join the webinar on Facebook or join us on Zoom 

Questions?  Email uujec@uujec.org

Recharge. Rebuild. Reconnect.

Now is the time for the climate movement to reconnect! The Global Just Recovery Gathering is a three-day online event featuring interactive workshops, cultural sessions, and hands-on trainings. Build your skills, strengthen relationships, and hear from a powerful line-up of climate leaders, artists, and musicians in every corner of the world. Join us in designing a new path towards a better future for all. Hosted by 350.org and a long list of partners. 

Registration is free, with donations requested. 

Spots are limited, so sign up today!

Recharge. Rebuild. Reconnect.

Now is the time for the climate movement to reconnect! The Global Just Recovery Gathering is a three-day online event featuring interactive workshops, cultural sessions, and hands-on trainings. Build your skills, strengthen relationships, and hear from a powerful line-up of climate leaders, artists, and musicians in every corner of the world. Join us in designing a new path towards a better future for all. Hosted by 350.org and a long list of partners. 

Registration is free, with donations requested. 

Spots are limited, so sign up today!

Come together as we stand with and for our AAPI community both far and wide. We will have a moment of silence to those who were victims and bring awareness to anti-Asian violence.

We will  meet at the old Roger's Market parking lot and then march around the block. Please bring signs with messages of love and support.

This event is sponsored by MLTARC, MLTDEIC, MLTCF, and many, many more of our residents and friends. 

Price: Free to the Public


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Event by MLT Anti-Racist Coalition

Recharge. Rebuild. Reconnect.

Now is the time for the climate movement to reconnect! The Global Just Recovery Gathering is a three-day online event featuring interactive workshops, cultural sessions, and hands-on trainings. Build your skills, strengthen relationships, and hear from a powerful line-up of climate leaders, artists, and musicians in every corner of the world. Join us in designing a new path towards a better future for all. Hosted by 350.org and a long list of partners. 

Registration is free, with donations requested. 

Spots are limited, so sign up today!

Join the call and learn about the Power Shift Network's actions around President Biden's Earth Day summit, and the planned actions from Earth Day to May Day, as well as the Power Shift Convergence April 16-25th.

The Power Shift Network mobilizes the collective power of young people to mitigate climate change and create a just, clean energy future and resilient, thriving communities for all.  We are honored to welcome Dany Sigwalt of PSN to tell us more about the actions they're planning.

Earth Day to May Day Mobilizations are coming up, and folks can use Backbone's creative tools to show up in solidarity with those on the labor and environmental frontlines. We'll also hear an update from the Line 3 Resistance.

Climate justice is economic justice, and Backbone is ready to deploy all we got to lock arms with those fighting for a thriving future!

RSVP HERE

Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light, JUUstice Washington, and Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) are excited to bring Native Daily Network's film Ancestral Waters to the wider community! The film documents the Puyallup Tribe's fight against Puget Sound Energy's Tacoma Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project in Tacoma, WA. 

More Info and to Register

Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light, JUUstice Washington, and Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) are excited to bring Native Daily Network's film Ancestral Waters to the wider community! The film documents the Puyallup Tribe's fight against Puget Sound Energy's Tacoma Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project in Tacoma, WA. 

More Info and to Register

Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light, JUUstice Washington, and Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) are excited to bring Native Daily Network's film Ancestral Waters to the wider community! The film documents the Puyallup Tribe's fight against Puget Sound Energy's Tacoma Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project in Tacoma, WA. 

More Info and to Register

UU Ministry for Earth (UUMFE), Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ) and UUs for Just Economic Community (UUJEC) are partnering for a Write Here! Write Now! (WHWN) letter-writing advocacy campaign that will culminate in virtual meetings with US Capitol Hill staffers the week of April 26. The campaign will focus on advocacy for the Justice for Black Farmer's Act and Climate Stewardship Act.

Learn everything you need to know on this call, featuring Adam Zipkin, Counsel to US Senator Cory Booker, and Ben Thomas, Senior Policy Director for Agriculture at the Environmental Defense Fund. Adam advises Senator Booker on issues related to the environment, energy, agriculture, and animal welfare; Ben works with key farm groups and state and federal policymakers for agricultural solutions. If you can’t make the call, you can still sign up for resources to organize letter-writing actions!

REGISTER NOW