Contact Faith Action Network 
Co-Director Paul at benz@fanwa.org if you want to try to meet with your member of Congress during August recess or your state legislators. Since these are all by phone or Zoom, see our Advocacy Toolkit for tips for online meetings.
Side With Love 5-Session Series, “Taking A Collective Breath: Deepening our alignment with the Movement for Black Lives” Begins August 11, 2020
We invite you to participate in Taking A Collective Breath: Deepening our alignment with the Movement for Black Lives, a five-session series built around the elements of the BREATHE Act. The webinars will explore the components of the BREATHE Act and utilize its structure as a way to focus our energies to effectively support ongoing racial justice work. Come learn and build with local and national partners who are shaping conditions to make liberation possible. This is an invitation to locate yourself in this moment as well, we each have a role to play.
The BREATHE Act seeks to reform federal laws and eliminate funding for federal programs that criminalize Black, Muslim, and immigrant communities, reinvesting our resources in community solutions for education, health, and the environment.
Register any time, for one session or the entire series. Sessions will be available online for later viewing, with registration.
Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites Asks for Your Voice at City Council Defund-the-Police Budget Hearing, June 8, 2020
The Coalition of Anti-Racist Whites is MOBILIZING to DEFUND the SPD by 50% and REINVEST IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES. We have until July 17th to influence the city budget. As a people who have historically benefited from the institution of police, we have a responsibility to advocate for its abolition.
We are MOBILIZING TOGETHER to DEFUND the SPD by 50% and REINVEST IN BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITIES
This work is not done! If you have been following the news lately, you likely know that Mayor Durkan is on the offensive. She has proposed a 20% budget cut, even though if we can maintain a veto-proof majority in city council, she has very little power to implement that proposal.
SO, it is imperative that we keep pressure on our Council Members to hold to their commitment. The pro-police folks are organizing as well. They’re planning on using our tactics to try to flip Council Members votes.
Our action is to keep up the calls and emails! They matter- don’t let up and give the pro-police folks the phone lines! Only a quarter of our Phone Zap spots are filled for today – so sign up. And make the calls even if you don’t sign up! Below you will find all of the city council members contact information!
Breaking News: Supreme Court Upholds DACA, for now
From Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
We are thrilled to share that this morning, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump Administration’s attempt to end the DACA program, finding that the Administration did not follow proper legal procedures in ending the program. This decision means that the DACA program can continue for now and that hundreds of thousands of immigrant youth will remain protected from deportation.
While we are very happy with this decision, the Court’s decision indicated that the Administration still has the authority to end DACA.
As such, we urge the Administration to put politics aside and choose to continue the DACA program. The lives of DACA recipients, their livelihoods, and their contributions to our communities are at stake. We urge the Administration to make clear that it will abandon its attempts to terminate the program. At the same time, we know that DACA does not provide a pathway to citizenship and so we urge Congress to do what it should have done long ago and pass a clean version of the Dream Act.
We are still processing the impact of the decision and will continue to provide information on its impact to community members over the coming days.
In Solidarity
Jorge L. Barón
UUA Presents: Reset UU the Vote, May 12, 2020, online
Music is powerful. It is there for us when we need strength and inspiration to keep going and when we need rest and discernment to determine our next move. Join the “How We Thrive” virtual choir, by adding your voice, today!
Many of us know and love the song “We Shall be Known” by MaMuse. Its simple lyrics call on us to center the deep spiritual work of community healing, action, and collaboration. We need 50 folks to record videos singing this song, to include in the May 12 event.
Join me in adding your voice! Instructions are simple. Please take five minutes to add your voice. If you’re nervous or unsure, join our virtual choir “rehearsal” this Sunday, April 26th, at 1pm ET, and get one-on-one tech help so you can sing with us!