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Action of the Week!
There was no way for me to chose between these two actions of the week. So this week we give you the choice! Action of the Week # 1 Join the Oregon Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival on Monday,June 11th in Salem. This is the fifth of six weeks of direct action in state capitols all across the country. The theme for Week 5 - Everybody's Got the Right to Live: Education, Living Wage Jobs, Income, Housing. The schedule for the day: 10:45am: Arrive and sign-in 11am: Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action Training (required for those participating in the action after the rally, strongly encouraged for those witnessing the action and serving in support roles) 1pm: Potluck lunch and travel to the Capitol 2pm: Rally on the Capitol steps 2:45pm: Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action If you are planning to join for any part or the whole day, please RSVP here to receive more details and carpooling. If you are planning to participate in Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action and/or are able to offer logistical support on Monday, please fill out this form as well. Action of the Week # 2 Lift Every Voice is the interfaith, youth-driven campaign to regulate assault weapons in Oregon. Ballot measure 43 will need fast action on its signature gathering to make it on the ballot this November. The campaign is using volunteers only. All volunteers need training! Now the campaign has video training! You can be trained at home through a YouTube video, or you can go to a group training. Whichever works for you. Check out locations for group training with this link to the campaign. (some locations are listed below, however, new ones are added all the time.) Check out the video training you can do in your own home. Don't forget to register with the campaign so they can get your petition sheets when the Ballot Title is cleared. You can do that here. In Love and Faith, Rev. Katie Larsell Calendar June 11, Monday, Measure 43, Assault Weapon Ban Signature Gathering Training, in Portland (emphasis on youth involvement) at 7pm at Augustana Lutheran Church, 2710 NE 14th Ave. June 12th Truthful Tuesday live-stream, National Poor People’s Campaign, Everybody's Got the Right to Live, from 4:30 – 7:00 pm, First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave, Portland. June 13, Wednesday, Measure 43, Assault Weapon Ban Signature Gathering Training, in Salem at 7pm at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 790 Marion St N.E. June 14, Thursday, Measure 43, Assault Weapon Ban Signature Gathering Training, in Eugene at 7pm at First Christian Church, 1166 Oak St. June 18th, Salem, National Poor People's Campaign, Direct action to demand an end to the distorted narrative of scarcity. June 19th, Truthful Tuesday live-stream, National Poor People’s Campaign, A New and Unsettling Force, from 4:30 – 7:00 pm, First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave, Portland. June 19, Tuesday, Measure 43, Assault Weapon Ban Signature Gathering Training, in Portland at 7pm at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 147 NW 19th Ave. June 20, Wednesday, Measure 43, Assault Weapon Ban Signature Gathering Training, in Bend at 7pm at Trinity Episcopal Church, 469 NW Wall St. Sept 15 -- Oregon Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice Annual Social Justice Conference. Oregon City. Mark your Calendar.
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The Oregon Poor People’s Campaign will be livestreaming Truthful Tuesday Teach-Ins presented by the national Poor People’s Campaign, from 4:30 – 7:00 pm each Tuesday during the 40 days of Action.
The livestream will be from 4:30 – 6:00 pm, followed by local discussion and Q&A about the campaign and its goals. The goal of the teach-ins is to create an opportunity for deeper education on the issues at the heart of this campaign and to build power among our community, bringing us together through deeper discussion and reflection. Action of the Week: Join with the campaign for Truthful Tuesday Teach-Ins on May 29, June 5, 12, 19 from 4:30 – 7:00 pm in Eliot Chapel, First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Avenue, Portland. Each week, in the Truthful Tuesday Teach-Ins we will learn more about the intersectionality of the four evils addressed by the campaign: system racism, systemic poverty, militarism and ecological devastation, and the reframing and correction of the current moral narrative.
Here is a link for a flyer to use at your congregation.Contact: Rev. Connie Yost, cyost@uuma.org, 503-385-2135 In Love and Faith, Rev. Katie Larsell Calendar Sept 15 -- Oregon Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice Annual Social Justice Conference. Mark your Calendar The Oregon Poor People's Campaign will be joining with Portland Democratic Socialists of America in a rally and action in Salem on Monday, May 21. Governor Kate Brown is calling a special session to cut taxes for business owners. Join us to protest this tax cut for already wealthy individuals. As reported in The Oregonian, this tax plan will mostly benefit high-income individuals making well over $200,000 a year. It would take away critical revenue needed to fund schools, affordable housing, and other vital services. Giving a tax break to wealthy business owners is moving us in the wrong direction. Our country and our state needs a fair, tax system that can provide the services we need. Our schools, our elders and the mentally ill have a hard time lobbying for services. We need to do it for them. There are two possible Actions of the Week. Action 1: Join the Oregon Poor People's campaign and the Portland Democratic Socialists of America at their rally on the Capitol steps to protest this special session for the wealthy. The rally is in Salem on Monday May 21 from12-1pm. Tell our state officials that we want our tax system to reflect our values! Immediately following the rally, the Oregon Poor People's Campaign will lead people in an action that may result in civil disobedience; other participants may be witnesses. Watch for the email from the Oregon Poor People's Campaign that will have the RSVP link. Sign up here to receive the email. Action 2: If you can't make it to Salem (or even if you can), let your Oregon legislators know that you do not want to see them pass this tax cut. You can do that here. Your email will give the legislators and Governor Brown some suggestions. They could make the tax cut revenue neutral, meaning it will not affect the Oregon State Budget. They can put a sunset date on the tax cut so it runs out a few years from now. In Love and Faith, Rev. Katie Larsell Calendar May 18-20th Rural Organizing Project, 2018 Rural Caucus and Strategy in the Dalles. More Info Sept 15 -- Oregon Unitarian Universalist Voices for Justice Annual Social Justice Conference. Mark your Calendar! Every few weeks I have been running something on the Poor People's Campaign. It is morally focused campaign against systemic racism, poverty, the war economy and ecological devastion. It is calling out the fact that our country's morality has been distorted by powerful interests.
The Poor People's Campaign is a big campaign with plans for 40 days of action starting on May 14th. It won't go away after that. Every year it intends to get larger and stronger. I urge you to sign up for their informational emails HERE. That way you can know what is going on. The Action of the Week is to register for The Poor People's Campaign local Teach-In and Trainings. The campaign takes a disciplined approach. To participate in one of their direct actions, you must attend a training. (There will be options for those who've not been able to engage in training to fulfill support and witness roles as well.) The Teach-In and Training dates continue throughout April and May all over Oregon. Training dates and RSVP Links: Sunday, April 22 in Portland - Noon-7pm RSVP for the Portland Training. Publicity Flyer Sunday, April 29 in Josephine/Jackson County - Cancelled. Emailoregon@poorpeoplescampaign.org if you are in southern Oregon and are hoping to be trained before May 14th. Saturday, May 5 in Corvallis - 1pm-7pm RSVP for the Corvallis Training Publicity Flyer Sunday, May 6 in Hood River - Noon-7pm RSVP for the Hood River Training Publicity Flyer In Love and Faith, Rev. Katie Larsell Action of the Week!
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is uniting people across the country to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation’s distorted morality. This National Campaign is getting rolling in Oregon. The Action of the Week this week is all about the Poor People's Campaign. Check out their website if want to know the history of this campaign. Its roots are in Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1960's campaign updated for today. Our own Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) and the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association (UUMA) are both endorsers of the Poor People’s Campaign. In support of the campaign, UUs are invited to a webinar, tomorrow! A Webinar on the Moral/Theological Basis for Nonviolent Moral Fusion Direct Action featuring Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis - Thursday, March 22, 1-2pm Pacific time. Here is the link to RSVP for the Webinar. – Please share and invite your lay leaders to attend this multi-faith webinar as well. In addition the campaign is doing the following local trainings:
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