First Unitarian Files for Temporary Restraining Order on Federal Law Enforcement
(You can see this feature in this weeks Speaking of Justice: Weekly Update 7/30.)
As you know, First Unitarian Portland is a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed last week to require that the recently-deployed federal law enforcement agents … read more.
During July, while Rev. Sinkford takes a summer break, look to this weekly update for ways that our congregation is responding and how you can engage in our justice work.
This piece is featured in our Speaking of Justice: Weekly Update 7/23/2020
Waking this morning, after the 55th … read more.
During July, while Rev. Sinkford takes a summer break, look to this weekly update for ways that our congregation is responding and how you can engage in our justice work.
Last week with over 300 signatures, including ministers and congregants, First Unitarian submitted this letter to Mayor … read more.
Over the summer, Speaking of Justice: Weekly Update will bring updates on First Unitarian’s social justice work, including the call for police accountability, our response during the Covid19 crisis and other issues facing our city and our world. During July, while Rev. Sinkford takes a summer … read more.
Hello all,
For the month of July “Bill’s Blog” will be in the form of “Speaking of Justice”. This is a weekly update Social Justice does every week through a DIFFERENT Google Doc link.
Over the summer, Speaking of Justice: Weekly Update will bring updates on First Unitarian’s … read more.
In a normal year, I would be at the UUA General Assembly now. I suppose in some sense I am “there,” though what that means is that I fit in attendance by zoom at selected events between zoom meetings “here” at First Unitarian.
In a normal … read more.
The Rainbow symbol and images of butterflies bracketed the phrase, “All Black Lives Matter,” on the long banner held across the plaza in front of the Supreme Court this morning. For the second time in a week, our highest court delivered an affirmation of the … read more.
We have a chance, here in Portland and in this nation, to begin a process of real change. The unavoidable awareness of police murders of Black citizens and the brutality of the militarized response to peaceful protest have finally pried open a possibility for change. … read more.
As protests continue here in Portland and across the nation, there is much that needs to be said. I want to begin with the basics.
Justice has always been a matter of life and death for Black, Indigenous and People of Color in the United States. … read more.
Imagine: A Black police officer forces his knee onto the neck of a white man, in handcuffs, lying face down on the pavement. His knee keeps pressing down harder and harder for 8 minutes while the white man gasps and pleads that he cannot breathe, … read more.
