Today, the WA Immigrant Solidarity Network stands in complete solidarity with the Afghan people. We urge the Biden-Harris administration to live up to their promise of centering human rights in foreign policy and provide refuge to ALL refugees who seek safety. What you can do: Send … [Read more...]
Call to Action: Show up for our siblings in Haiti & Afghanistan
The Church Council of Greater Seattle asks you to show up for our siblings in Haiti & Afghanistan ***CALL TO ACTION: Sign onto this letter and demand the Biden administration lift the cap on Afghan refugees NOW**** Links to Donate and Volunteer Here From climate … [Read more...]
Tell US Senators to VOTE NO on HR 1374
The Lakota People’s Law Project has put out a call to action to advocate against HR1374, the “Enhancing State Energy Security Planning and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2021” – a bill that has already passed in the House and is heading to the Senate. This bill would worsen the already dangerous and … [Read more...]
Unitarian Indian Boarding School and WA Interfaith Response to the Burials
For those of you who are not aware, literally thousands of bodies of Indian children are being discovered and exhumed from boarding school sites all across the continent. Yes, Unitarian Universalists also had missionaries running board schools. Sec. Haaland has ordered review of all US Boarding … [Read more...]
Immigration Days of Action, July 17 to 31, 2021
The Interfaith Immigration Coalition and the Welcome With Dignity campaign are hosting Days of Action from July 17-31 to create awareness and end Title 42 and expand asylum protections. The Biden Administration is expected to make a series of announcements on a Trump-era anti-asylum policy known as … [Read more...]
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe calls on Seattle to remove the Gorge Dam
This article is one of a pair of stories about the Skagit River and the federal process to relicense three major hydroelectric dams along its length. Read the companion story here. As he explored his ancestral homeland, Schuyler visited the upper Skagit River Valley, where he encountered the … [Read more...]
Good Trouble: John Lewis Democracy Vigils, Saturday, July 17th, 2021 (Various Locations/Times)
Join us for The Good Trouble Vigils for Democracy on July 17 - the one year mark of the passing of Rep. John Lewis - as we carry on his legacy by hosting candlelight vigils nationwide to demand that Congress act to protect our freedom to vote and rebuild our democracy. Six months have … [Read more...]
CHANGING THE NARRATIVE ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS A GUIDE FOR ALLIES
Being Native American may mean being deeply involved in protecting, teaching and advancing the knowledge and traditions of one’s tribe(s). Or it may mean being less connected to tribal communities while maintaining unique Native American identities in other ways within the larger society. There is … [Read more...]
If you don’t know treaties and sovereignty, you don’t know history
There’s a widespread notion that “tribal sovereignty” and “Indian treaties” are legal, historical, practical and correct terms. Actually, sovereignty is sovereignty, and treaties are treaties, nation to nation is between and among sovereigns; the use of “tribal” or “Indian” or any modifier is both … [Read more...]
Reclaiming Native Truth – Lessons Learned from Standing Rock
The movement at Standing Rock significantly undermined the systemic erasure of Native peoples from the dominant American narrative. At a time when most Americans continued to believe that Native Americans and Nations no longer exist in the United States, Americans were presented with a movement that … [Read more...]
Deadline for Democracy: June 28 – July 10, Pressure Congress for Voting Equity
Yesterday, we launched our big plan for the upcoming congressional recess from June 28 - July 10: Deadline for Democracy. And now we’ve got just a few weeks to plan hundreds of events, drive thousands of signups, and get everything ready to put pressure on all 100 senators for real democracy … [Read more...]
CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS REACH PEAK IN 4 MILLION YEARS, WHAT THIS MEANS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May. These are the highest carbon dioxide levels in over four million years. The last time that the atmosphere held comparable … [Read more...]
In Tulsa, Faith Leaders Call for Massacre Reparations
UU World This year, on its centennial, the Tulsa Race Massacre is drawing enormous attention in national and international media. The eyes of the world are on Tulsa, and as the city questions how to atone for the horror—indeed, how to give it proper recognition—local churches, including All Souls … [Read more...]
Diversity training on WA college campuses will soon be mandatory
Crosscut by Hannah Krieg / May 31, 2021 On May 12, the Gov. Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5227, which mandates that Washington’s 40 public colleges and universities conduct training sessions and assessments for both faculty and staff around diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism starting … [Read more...]
Governor Signs Climate Bills
Governor Inslee signed several of the big environmental bills of the 2021 session on Monday, May 18 in Seattle at various locations. Bills included SB 5126 (the Climate Commitment Act), HB 1091 (Clean Fuels); and SB 5141 (HEAL Act). He vetoed provisions in 5126 and 1091 that would have made … [Read more...]
Zero Emissions Vehicles HB 1287
The legislature passed HB 1287, the zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) bill, after it was amended to “establish a goal that all publicly and privately owned passenger and light duty vehicles of model year 2030 or later sold, purchased, or registered in Washington state be electric vehicles, contingent … [Read more...]
2nd Call for Support: Bring Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut Home!
Netse Mot: Support Lummi Nation and Xw’ullemy (the Salish Sea) 2nd Call for Support: Bring Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut Home! JUUstice Washington has signed . . . Board of Trustees of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship has signed . . . Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship’s Social and Environmental … [Read more...]
Success for WA Immigrants in 2021 Session
Our platform for the 2021 legislative session has been a total success. The budget provisos that we worked on this year made it into the budget and the two priority bills passed and were already signed by the governor! This means the following: Workers There will be an income … [Read more...]
Red Road to DC Totem Pole Journey
Below is the the bare bones schedule of stops so far on the Red Road to DC Totem Pole Journey. For details right now, you have to go the the “Our Shared Responsibility” Facebook page and look up events. The schedule is changing minute by minute so please follow on Facebook! Please pass this … [Read more...]
Netse Mot: Bringing Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut Home!
Netse Mot 2021-Call to bring Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut Home 2021 will focus on the return of Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut (Tokitae/Lolita) to the Pacific Northwest from Miami Seaquarim in Florida. In the 1970s Southern Resident Orca youth were forcibly and violently taken from their pods and shipped out to … [Read more...]
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