Below is a letter that is being circulated for sending to our Congressional representatives requesting that no addition funds be appropriated for ICE, CBP or the border wall. Please consider either sending this same letter, or better yet, personalize it and send it onto Senators Murray and … [Read more...]
Your Gift Empowers Us All
Reach beyond the mundane Contribute, today Now is the time to help us reach beyond the mundane. Our vision to empower people, with a new and more powerful thrust, to build a just world in which all people thrive. By supporting JUUstice Washington right now, you will be helping us to achieve … [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...]
Canadian Court gives Coastal Gasoline permission to violate Indigenous rights
The Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship and other UU congregations have supported the Unist'ot'en Camp in the past and the Camp will be needing more help as the BC Supreme Court moves against them. Watch for more … [Read more...]
A Native American tribe demands the return of its spiritual relative
https://religionnews.com/2018/12/10/a-native-american-tribe-demands-the-return-of-its-spiritual-relative-an-orca/?fbclid=IwAR0BzybJcOfK9KzhiczEbvLIvVMPKfi-Ami7uILMPsOM_0Oo96p6e_gsdNQ … [Read more...]
Windstorm Outtage Kills Millions of Young Salmon At WDFW Hatchery
http://nwsportsmanmag.com/windstorm-outtage-kills-millions-of-young-salmon-at-wdfw-hatchery-devastating-loss/?fbclid=IwAR2dvyQ9icIzZRgqDZME0BuANyJ8cRc3uuPj_RwztQB0_kLkVs_Knjz2HH0 … [Read more...]
COP24 of the Climate Convention Sets Emissions Rules
The 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded its work in Katowice, Poland on December 15, 2018. COP24 debated the rules concerning measurement and reporting of emissions under the Paris Agreement (2015), discussed financing of emissions … [Read more...]
Honoring Native Land in Your Congregation: A Truth and Reconciliation Process
Gary Piazzon writes: There is a plaque at the entrance of the UUCWI sanctuary acknowledging that the land it occupies was traditionally occupied by the Snohomish tribe.This was done as part of a truth and reconciliation process.A process of acknowledging and taking responsibility of wrongs done … [Read more...]
Ensure a Livable Planet Letter Writing Campaign
During this very short legislative session, we are reaching out to our legislatures to make sure they know that we believe that action must be taken now to ensure a livable planet in the future. We have organized a letter writing campaign that we hope you will consider signing, joining in the … [Read more...]
Support Hunger Strike at Northwest Detention Center
Weeks ago detained immigrant Amar Mergansana died while being held at Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center. Amar was in solitary confinement, on hunger strike, advocating for his rights. He asked repeatedly that GEO Group and ICE give him medical treatment. He was ignored and days later passed away … [Read more...]
Rep. Jayapal visits migrants in Tijuana as lawmakers prepare probe into border clashes with U.S. border patrol
U.S. House Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, met Saturday with Central American migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, gathering information for an expected investigation by the House into their treatment and clashes between them and U.S. Border Patrol last week. Jayapal listened to the stories of the … [Read more...]
Why famished orcas may have to wait 90 years for more salmon
The 2005 federal recovery plan for chinook salmon had more ambitious timelines: 25 years in the Skagit, 50 years in the rest of Puget Sound. Either pace might be far too slow for the region’s remaining 74 southern resident killer whales, starving for salmon today. Read more here. … [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...]
Samish Nation celebrates approval of land-into-trust application
It took more than eight years but the Samish Nation has finally secured approval of a land-into-trust application in Washington state.And though the decision is for a relatively small parcel of 6.70 acres, the tribe is celebrating the historic action. In the past 22 years, the Bureau of Indian … [Read more...]
Faith Communities Asked to Oppose Public Charge Rule
Faith Action Network of Washington is putting forward the call to faith communities to oppose DHS Docket No. USCIS-2010-0012, RIN 1615-AA22, Comments in Response to Proposed Rulemaking: Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds. This proposed change could impact over 533,000 people, including … [Read more...]
From skiing to salmon runs, the national climate report predicts a Northwest in peril
Climate change’s effects – among them, increasing wildfires, disease outbreak and drought – are taking a toll on the Northwest, and what’s to come will threaten and transform our way of life from the salmon streams to ski slopes, according to a new federal climate assessment released Friday. The … [Read more...]
NORTHWEST TRIBAL LEADERS TESTIFY IN OPPOSITION TO CANADIAN PIPELINE EXPANSION
Opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline from Coast Salish Tribes on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border continued today with indigenous people of the Salish Sea region testifying before the Canadian National Energy Board. Four U.S. Coast Salish Tribes — the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, … [Read more...]
Bold New Museum Exhibit Urges World to Save Washington State’s Nearly-Extinct Orcas
Two brothers, Jewell and Doug James, first started carving totem poles back in 2001 after 9/11. The brothers, both members of the Lummi Nation in Washington, created these poles as gifts meant to heal. They toured them around the U.S. and invited people to put their hands on them because people are … [Read more...]