Please join your 36th District legislators at the Seattle Opera Center (363 Mercer St., Seattle, WA, 98109) on Saturday, January 5th from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Representative Noel Frame is hosting this town hall prior to the 2019 Legislative Session so that you can share your thoughts and ideas on the … [Read more...]
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance – Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day
When: Thursday, February 28, 2019 Where: United Churches of Olympia and Capitol Campus REGISTRATION WILL OPEN IN JANUARY 2019 At Housing and Homelessness Advocacy Day, your voice is heard on some of the most pressing issues of our time: housing affordability and an end to homelessness. Be a … [Read more...]
Poverty Action’s 14th Annual MLK Lobby Day
When: Monday, January 21, 2019 • 9 am - 3:30 pm Where: St John's Episcopal Church, 114 20th Ave SE, Olympia, WA 98501 This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, join Poverty Action members from across the state as we demand a more just Washington state. This MLK Day you will: Meet with your … [Read more...]
Lobby Day for a Free Flowing Snake River
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 9 AM – 3 PM Olympia State Capital Building 416 Sid Snyder Ave SW, Olympia, Washington 98501 Join us for the lobby day for a free-flowing Snake River in Olympia on Tuesday, February 5th. We will be meeting with Washington State Legislative representatives and … [Read more...]
Indigenous Action – San Juan Islands National Monument
WhiteSwan Environmental, a local Native group, is requesting our assistance in helping bring more recognition of indigenous perspectives to the care and management of the San Juan Islands Monument. A commenting period, which ends January 3, 2019 is open for public comment and we are being asked to … [Read more...]
Film: Traces of the Trade with Delbert Richardson
Director Katrina Browne, (a descendant of the DeWolfs, the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history) and her relatives set out to face the facts — and themselves — as they retrace the slave trade triangle from Rhode Island to Ghana, to Cuba and back. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep … [Read more...]
Unist’ot’en Camp in Need of Support Now!
On December 14th, the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled in favor of an injunction against the Unist’ot’en Camp. This injunction is requiring that the gate blocking the way into the pipeline construction area to be removed so Coastal GasLink (as subsidiary of TransCanada) can get there and begin … [Read more...]
Meaningful Movies: CHASING CORAL
6:30 PM, Saturday, January 12, 2019 • Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 8109 224 Street SW Edmonds,WA Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet with carbon emissions warming the seas, a phenomenon called “coral bleaching” – a … [Read more...]
Meaningful Movies: FOR AHKEEM
6:00 PM, Tuesday, January 8, 2019 • Vashon Theatre, 17723 Vashon Highway SW Vashon,WA Beginning one year before the fatal police shooting of a Black teenager in nearby Ferguson, Missouri, For Ahkeem is the coming-of-age story of Daje Shelton, a Black 17-year-old girl in North St. Louis. She fights … [Read more...]
Meaningful Movies: TRICKLE DOWN TOWN
7:00 PM, Friday, January 4, 2019 • Location : Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone Place N Seattle, This brand-new film takes an up-close look at homelessness in Seattle. There are in-depth interviews with homeless people and visits to local homeless camps, including Camp Second Chance in … [Read more...]
Meaningful Movies: Whose Streets
6:30 PM, Thursday, January 31, 2019 • Mt. Baker Community Club, 2811 Mount Rainier Drive South Seattle Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, “Whose Streets?” is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by … [Read more...]
Pacific Northwest tribe enlists unusual allies in fight to save the Salish Sea from fossil fuel threats: museums
https://lastrealindians.com/pacific-northwest-tribe-enlists-unusual-allies-in-fight-to-save-the-salish-sea-from-fossil-fuel-threats-museums/mattremle/ … [Read more...]
Pop-Up Museums as Political Organizing: Can Totem Poles Help Turn the Tide on Fossil Fuels?
For the last six years, the new totem poles have focused on issues relating to the fossil fuel industry. The newest carving emphasizes risks to the Salish Sea (off northwest Washington and southwest British Columbia) and its dwindling population of orcas, or killer whales, if proposed industry … [Read more...]
Colonization & Unitarian Universalism – a Conversation w/ Rev. Clyde Grubbs
November 29th, 4:30 PST / 7:30 EST. Join the next EJPN Webinar on November 29th for a discussion about Colonization and Unitarian Universalism with Rev. Clyde Grubbs. This is the first webinar in the "Decolonization Conversations: Solidarity with Indigenous Land & Water Protectors" program … [Read more...]
JUUstice WA Speaker Bio – Cynthia Good – 2018 Justice Summit
JUUstice Washington was honored to invite Cynthia Good to share her expertise and insights at our inaugural Justice Summit on October 20, 2018. Cynthia Good and her co-presenter Kyana Wheeler conducted a plenary session designed to help participants begin to identify and respond to systems of … [Read more...]
JUUstice WA Speaker Bio – Kyana Wheeler – 2018 Justice Summit
JUUstice Washington was honored to invite Kyana Wheeler to share her expertise and insights at our inaugural Justice Summit on October 20, 2018. Kyana Wheeler and her co-presenter Cynthia Good conducted a plenary session designed to help participants begin to identify and respond to systems of … [Read more...]
What are WE called to do next? Responses from the 2018 Justice Summit
At the close of the 2018 UU Justice Summit, we assessed our day -- what we had accomplished and what we were called to do next. Here are our answers to the question: What are WE called to do next? In random order: Speak out for our planet with concrete ideas. We are called to learn and … [Read more...]
What are YOU called to do next? Responses from the 2018 Justice Summit
At the close of the 2018 UU Justice Summit, we assessed our day -- what we had accomplished and what we were called to do next. Here are our answers to the question: What are YOU called to do next? In random order: Persevere. Resist. Encourage. Model JUUstice. GP I feel called to make … [Read more...]
What are YOU called to do next? Responses from the 2018 Justice Summit
At the close of the 2018 UU Justice Summit, we assessed our day -- what we had accomplished and what we were called to do next. Here are our answers to the question: What are YOU called to do next? In random order: I am called to do inner exploration, and to attempt to expand <our Flash> … [Read more...]
What did YOU accomplish, today? Responses from the 2018 Justice Summit
At the close of the 2018 UU Justice Summit, we assessed our day -- what we had accomplished and what we were called to do next. Here are our answers to the question: What did YOU accomplish today? In random order: Made good connections with other activists. Innovation. Remained open … [Read more...]