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Faith Communities Asked to Oppose Public Charge Rule
Bywebmaster November 30, 2018November 30, 2018

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 205,000 children, in Washington State alone. Faith leaders urge all people of faith, whose diverse…

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NORTHWEST TRIBAL LEADERS TESTIFY IN OPPOSITION TO CANADIAN PIPELINE EXPANSION
Bywebmaster November 30, 2018March 26, 2020

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, Tulalip Tribes, Lummi Nation, and Suquamish Tribe — shared their…

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This Thanksgiving, The Trump Administration Is Taking Land From The Tribe That Welcomed The Pilgrims
Bywebmaster November 23, 2018November 23, 2018

And the 1950s termination policies return. They were disastrous then and they will be now . . . On Sept. 7, Cedric Cromwell, the chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe received a letter from Tara Sweeney, the assistant secretary of Indian affairs at the Department of the Interior, informing him that his tribe no longer…

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Webinar – The Evolution of Inequity Since the Great Recession, with Dr. Casey of The Brookings Institution
Bywebmaster November 8, 2018March 2, 2019

Date: November 20, 2018 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Location: Zoom (video conference) Webinar – Register Here Sponsors: Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice and Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community Marcus Casey, Ph.D. of The Brookings Institution, will discuss the consequences of growing income and wealth inequality on the economic prospects of middle-class and…

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UUSC and the Honduran Caravan
Bywebmaster October 31, 2018March 26, 2020

I know our hearts have been heavy in recent days with so much difficult news: Pittsburg; attacks on birthright citizenship; and 5,000 troops sent to the border as if people seeking asylum were our biggest threat – while white supremacist violence takes lives. Many people have reached out to UUSC asking how they can do more…

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