JUUstice Washington

A Unitarian Universalist State Action Network

UUs for a Just Economic Community Organizing UU Community to Join Poor People’s Campaign

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A wonderful opportunity!

The UUA/Poor People’s Campaign has reached out to UUJEC to join their effort for economic justice. We’ve always felt we were a good fit but somehow never connected.

We need volunteers
This great opportunity means we need to increase our capacity. Our volunteers will meet for an hour meeting monthly and a few more hours to do the actual work. We need leaders and workers. Please send an email to uujec@uujec.org and we’ll get you set up.

Looking for poor people to share their story
Can you help point the council towards any UUs that are low-income folks, perhaps willing to speak of that experience (to witness) as part of a Church of the Larger Fellowship service on June 14, 2020, centered on PPC? See PPC video.    More ways to help

Earth Law Center joins effort to free Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) Press Conference

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Earth Law Center joins effort to free Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) Press Conference

WHAT: A virtual press conference at which individual Lummi tribal members Tah-Mahs (Ellie Kinley) and Squil-le-he-le (Raynell Morris) will announce the next step of their work to bring Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) home from the Miami Seaquarium to the Salish Sea: partnership with Earth Law Center.

The event will include a ceremonial invocation, remarks from Tah-Mahs, Squil-le-he-le and their traditional witnesses, from the Earth Law Center, and questions from the press.

WHEN: 11:00 am-12:00pm. Wednesday, June 10, 2020

WHERE: The public is invited to watch the  livestream at the SacredSea.org Facebook page or on the home page of SacredSea.org.

WHY: Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) was stolen from her family in the Salish Sea in 1970 and has been held captive at Miami Seaquarium ever since.  As part of their Xa xalh Xechnging (sacred obligation) to Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, Tah-Mahs and Squil-le-he-le   announced last summer their intent to sue Miami Seaquarium for her release and return.

In Lummi language, the word for “orca” is qwe’lhol’mechen, which means “our relations under the water.”  Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut is kin not only to her immediate L-pod family, but also to Lummi people. Bringing her home will help heal her pod, her larger Lummi family, and the Salish Sea. Tah-Mahs and Squil-le-he-le will now be legally represented by Earth Law Center in this work.

SPEAKERS:

  • Opening and closing  prayer songs by Lawrence Solomon, Chairman of Lummi Nation
  • Squil-le-he-le (Raynell Morris) of Lummi Nation tribal member
  • Tah-Mahs (Ellie Kinley), Lummi Nation tribal member
  • Michelle Bender, Ocean Rights Manager, Earth Law Center
  • Witness Jay Julius, former Chairman of Lummi Nation
  • Witness Sit Ki Kadem, Lummi Nation
  • Witness Alan Salazar, Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

Earth Law Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental law organization working around the world to transform the law to recognize, honor and protect nature’s inherent rights to exist, thrive and evolve. They began a campaign in 2018 to recognize the inherent rights of the Southern Resident Orcas.

for more information on Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, go to www.sacredsea.org

Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery

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THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY

Unmasking the Domination Code

Sunday, May 3, 2020 / Time: 1:00 – 3+ pm Online Screening via Zoom

This hour-long film and production by First Nation Peoples examines the effects of an ancient doctrine traced to Vatican Papal Orders (Bulls) issued by Popes in the Fifteenth century which purported to grant rights to claim domination, in perpetuity, over non-Christian lands and their inhabitants.

Conversation with Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape) following the film, co-director and author of the book from which the movie was made: Pagans in the Promised Land.

Washington State leaders working on dismantling the Doctrine will join Steven: Jonathan Neufeld, and Deb Cruz.

Western WA Fellowship of Reconciliation Spring Assembly: Peace and Justice in a Time of Coronavirus, May 2, 2020, online

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MAY 2 SPRING ASSEMBLY.  We are excited to announce that the WWFOR Spring Assembly planners have come up with plans for a no-contact Spring Assembly on May 2.  Thank you, planners!

Mark Your Calendar!  Tell Your Friends!
Peace and Justice in a Time of Coronavirus
Saturday, May 2, 2020, 9 am – 12:30 pm
Zoom Videoconference (participate by internet or phone)

Please join us for the 22nd. Annual Western Washington FOR conference; this year by videoconferencing or phone.  Find out how several groups and organizations are compassionately and courageously continuing to provide services in this unusually trying time, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted them and the people they serve.

Everyone is welcome!  All are invited to this video-or-phone-conference and there is no fee involved.

After a welcome and introductions, we will have a series of workshops with Q&A included, and a closing session.

Workshop Presenters

  • 9:15 am       Workshop # 1, Paul Chiyoken Wagner. Climate Emergency and stand against LNG facility in Tacoma.
  • 9:50 am       Workshop # 2, Deborah Cruz and Betty Deveraux, Advocates for Immigrants in Detention Northwest.
  • 10:25 am     Workshop # 3, Maru Mora Villapando, La Resistencia against NWDC, Community Organizer and Immigrant Advocate.
  • 11:00 am     Workshop # 4, Kwabe Amoah-Forson-The Peace Bus. 
  • 11:35 am     Workshop # 5, Carly Brook, Kit Burns, Washington Against Nuclear Weapons.

Registration:  Those without computer/internet access can participate in this conference via phone.  Email wwfor@wwfor.org or leave voicemail phone (206)-789-5565, and leave your name, email address (if available), and phone number.  This will allow the Zoom Host to send you a link via email to join the conference, or give you a phone number and code to participate by phone.  Deadline for WWFOR office registration: Tuesday, April 28 at 5:00 PM.  After that deadline, register with David Lambert at: lambertdavid39@gmail.com or 253-209-3559 or 253-259-2280.

Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington Going Digital! June 20, 2020

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The Mass Poor People’s Assembly & Moral March on Washington on June 20, 2020 will not be postponed but will be transformed! We are going digital!

We will hold the largest digital and social media gathering of poor and low-wealth people and people of conscience in this nation’s history. The COVID-19 global pandemic is exposing the already existing crisis of poverty in America, and we are going to bombard every member of Congress and the White House so that we raise up the demands of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

We will not be able to gather physically in Washington DC, but it is paramount that we have a forum where poor and low-wealth people can share their truths with a nation that needs its heart broken.

If there was ever a time for a massive outcry, it’s right now. People are hungry for bold, visionary solutions, not just to this current crisis, but to systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. Poor and low-wealth people know the solutions we need.

Stay tuned for more about how we are transforming our vision to adapt to the digital space. We may be isolated, but we remain united!

Forward together,

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival