JUUstice Washington

A Unitarian Universalist State Action Network

Black Collective Voice Page Engage Series, Part 2 “From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation,” July 3, 2020, Seattle

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Friday, July 3rd, 6:30 pm, Jimi Hendrix Park, 2400 S Massachusetts St, Seattle

This week highlights Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s “From #BLACKLIVESMATTER to Black Liberation”. This text will help us understand our current moment within the larger context of the historic movement for Black liberation. Black Collective Voice is dedicated to community education, mutual-aid, and taking action alongside our partners from the Seattle protest community.

The Page Engage series will highlight the work of different revolutionary Black authors, activists, and voices. Our series aims to foster discussions between diverse communities in order to mobilize behind intentional direct action.

Page:

We will provide excerpts from each text we read and we encourage you to buy your own copies of these powerful works. Please visit local BIPOC owned bookstores such as Estelita’s Library for your own copy.

Engage:

At each of our events, we will ask you to engage in direct action, as our aim is use education to mobilize our communities.

Be Like Water:

Our goal is to cultivate a sustainable abolitionist movement through liberatory education, community building, and informed action. Black Collective Voice will continue to grow and respond to the needs of our community. Come prepared to listen, discuss, and discover how your gifts can contribute to this movement.

WA Low Income Housing Alliance Weekly Webinars, 10:00 am Wednesdays

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The WA Low Income Housing Alliance works toward the opportunity for all Washington residents to live in safe, healthy, affordable homes in thriving communities. They sponsor a weekly webinar to highlight work and provide action points on these issues.

Examples of recent/coming meetings: Marc Dones  joined us July 1st to share about the newly formed Center on Housing Justice, an arm of the National Innovation Service that will focus on dismantling structural racism inside our nation’s housing and homeless service systems, and redesigning toward an equitable future! On July 8th, we’ll be joined by Lowel Krueger from the Yakima Housing Authority and Amber Johnson from SNAP to discuss how COVID-19 is impacting their tenants.

If you would like to submit a question ahead of the call, please use this form to do so! We will do our very best to answer your questions during the call or in follow-up correspondence.

You can register for the call at this link, or by clicking the button above. After registering, you should receive a confirmation email with the call-in information and a password. If for some reason you do not, please email John at johns@wliha.org to make sure you get it.

Backbone Campaign Fundamental Right to Food Events, June 26, July 1, online

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Illuminated by the promise of sunshine in the corner of the picture, a young seedling reeives drips of water pouring from the fingertips of an upturned hand.Food is a basic need, and healthy local food should be a fundamental right. At the heart of the food system is the seed.  Our current food system is so broken – in most all ways.

Join Backbone for two events, this Friday and next Wednesday. We will talk about the effects of racism and colonization on our food system and how those oppressive systems relate to growing a garden and saving your seeds.

 

Scroll down for detailed info on each virtual event and to register.

1. Backbone is honored and grateful to host a conversation with Farmers Lawrence Jenkins and Aleta Haskins, of The Circle of Life Gardens: Friday, June 26th, 11:30am (Pacific).

2. Following on our Conversation is a Virtual Workshop on Seed Saving: Wednesday, July 1st, 4pm (Pacific).

BLACK LIVES MATTER CALLS FOR STATEWIDE SILENT MARCH AND GENERAL STRIKE ON FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2020

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Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County is calling for a statewide day of action in support of all Black lives in Washington State on Friday, June 12th. The day of action will include a general strike and a silent march to mourn the lives lost to police brutality and institutional racism. For those who can’t march in Seattle, we encourage local groups to organize a march in their communities.

We know that not everyone can attend a march for various reasons. Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County has made it very clear they don’t want to put people at risk in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. So for those who can’t participate in a physical gathering, they urge you to participate in the general strike and in actions they post online throughout the day.

Standing on the Side of Love Black Lives Matter logo

 

Silent March:

1:00 PM – Meet at Judkins Park, 2150 S. Norman St. Seattle

2:00 PM- Silently March to Jefferson Park via 23rd Ave S.

3:30 PM – Closing Remarks at Jefferson Park

 

BLM Rules for the March:

1.   Please be respectfully silent during the march.

  •   This is a time to join community in grief and mourning. Please don’t disrespect that by initiating chanting or booing.
  • We encourage you to bring signs and other visual ways of making your voices heard during the protest.

2.   Please take the pandemic seriously.

  • Maintain 6 feet distance from everyone who’s not in your household. There will be plenty of room, so be willing to spread out and expand the footprint of the march!
  • Bring appropriate facial coverings (mask, cloth, scarf, bandana, etc)
  • Bring gloves.
  • Bring hand sanitizer.
  • Do NOT attend if you are sick, exhibiting symptoms, or if you believe you have come into contact with someone who had COVID-19.

3.   After closing remarks, please disperse and return home immediately.

  • Do this in the interest of mitigating your risk of coming into contact with the virus.
  • Plan your visit to the area in advance so that you know how you will be getting home before you arrive at the protest.

BLM Facebook Event HERE

More Details From BLM HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

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