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What legacy will you leave your beloved: your children, grandchildren, congregation, community, and/or country about how you worked to dismantle systemic racism during your lifetime? What will you bequeath to your beloved? What is your hope for their future, for Beloved Community?
Join Rev. Tina Squire and Steve Kraynak on the third Friday of each month for a justice-centered book discussion from the perspective of our Unitarian Universalist values. Here we will use reading, conversation, and writing to answer these questions for ourselves. |
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UUJAZ is part of a coalition in the Phoenix Metro area to create a Civilian oversight, and increased community accountability for the Phoenix Police. The Coalition includes partners like Poder In Action, Black Phoenix Organizing Collective, Puente Human Rights Movement, Equality AZ, and more. Phoenix UUs have shown up in yellow shirts at City Council meetings, made appointments with council member Debra Stark and Mayor Kate Gallego, and sent Rev. Christine Dance and Executive Director Janine Gelsinger to speak to Council.
Speak Your Values - Contact Electeds
If you can't make the council meetings in person, you can call, email, or schedule an appointment with your city council member and/or Mayor Gallego. A sample script:
Dear ________,
My name is __________ and I live in your district at ______________(your address). I'm contacting you because I am concerned about the lack of accountability and oversight for the Phoenix PD. I'd like to add my voice in calling for a Civilian Review Board that is independent, investigative, transparent, and community-driven. ____________(add any other thoughts on why this is personal to you).
Dear ________,
My name is __________ and I live in your district at ______________(your address). I'm contacting you because I am concerned about the lack of accountability and oversight for the Phoenix PD. I'd like to add my voice in calling for a Civilian Review Board that is independent, investigative, transparent, and community-driven. ____________(add any other thoughts on why this is personal to you).
Show Up In Numbers - Public Witness
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Dreamers on Feb. 26 got a breather from the Supreme Court that for months will protect them from deportation. The high court refused to rule on the Trump Administration's attempt to circumvent a legal challenge to its attempt to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program.
The move by the Supreme Court shields 700,000 Dreamers from immediate deportation on the arbitrary March 5 date imposed by the Trump Administration. They can continue to go to school and work in the U.S. (An estimated 1 million more young undocumented immigrants who have not registered under DACA continue to risk deportation if they are stopped by immigration authorities.)
This fight is far from over. UUJAZ sides with Dreamers because they are us. We are them.
The move by the Supreme Court shields 700,000 Dreamers from immediate deportation on the arbitrary March 5 date imposed by the Trump Administration. They can continue to go to school and work in the U.S. (An estimated 1 million more young undocumented immigrants who have not registered under DACA continue to risk deportation if they are stopped by immigration authorities.)
This fight is far from over. UUJAZ sides with Dreamers because they are us. We are them.
