The Sanctuary Promise // Stimulus Checks // Climate Convergence

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What’s Inside:

  • ACTION NEEDED NOW: The Sanctuary Promise Act & Other Bills
  • URGENT: Help Incarcerated Citizens Get Their Stimulus Checks!
  • Whole Earth, Whole Church Congregational Climate Convergence
  • Art For Social Justice – We Survived

ACTION NEEDED NOW: The Sanctuary Promise Act & Other Bills

Written by Mary Ann Barham, Immigrant Justice Action Group (IJAG)

Help the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice (IMIrJ) achieve its goal of making 500 calls to Oregon legislators in support of the Sanctuary Promise Act by Monday, March 22nd. HB 3265 will update and strengthen the state’s 30+-year sanctuary law; information about the bill can be found here. The campaign organizers ask, for strategic reasons, that you contact your Oregon state senators and representatives if they are Democrats in the next few days and urge them to support this bill. You can find your legislators here: Legislator Lookup

IMIrJ also requests that faith communities support the following bills: 

HB 2417, Expanding CAHOOTS (a community-based public safety system that provides mental health responses to crises involving mental illness, homelessness, and addiction) by offering matching grants to local communities, this is a “horizon” bill, advancing an alternative to our current system of policing — learn more about this bill here.

HB 2021, 100% Clean Energy for All — information about the bill can be found here — is tentatively scheduled for a first hearing with the House committee on Energy & Environment next week, and people are being asked to submit written testimony — a testimony guide prepared by the Oregon Clean Energy Opportunity Campaign can be found here.

HB 2842, Healthy Homes — please call or email your Oregon state senator or representative asking for their support — information about this bill can be found here.

URGENT: Help Incarcerated Citizens Get Their Stimulus Checks!

Submitted by Sacred Circles

Many imprisoned people still have not received their EIP checks. Critical Resistance PDX is sending instructions to help eligible prisoners get their money. Volunteers are needed to mail notices by April 1st to imprisoned Oregonians in the CR PDX database.

Sign up here/More info

Whole Earth, Whole Church Congregational Climate Convergence

Written by Leslie Pohl Kosbau & Keith Iding, Community For Earth (CFE)

March 20, 2021 – 11am-2pm PT / 12-3 MT / 1-4 CT / 2-5 ET

Hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth & UUA Green Sanctuary 2030: Mobilizing for Climate Justice

Calling all congregations committed to climate justice! This program (a part of Spring for Change – A Season of Sacred Activism) is designed for congregational leaders to attend together with the goal of inspiring and supporting congregational climate action. Ministers, religious educators, and lay leaders are encouraged to attend in teams of two to five people. 

Sign up here!

The Whole Earth, Whole Church Congregational Climate Convergence will include inspirational grounding, as well as plenary and breakout sessions focusing on tools for congregations to build capacity for climate action and justice grounded in UU values. It will also include an introduction to the new UUA Green Sanctuary 2030: Mobilizing for Climate Justice, A Roadmap for Congregations to Rise to the Crisis. A Spring Equinox Worship and Opening Celebration will take place immediately prior to the convergence, at 9 am PT.

Everyone who is concerned about the greatest physical, moral, and spiritual challenge of our time is encouraged to attend whether or not your congregation is already involved. Attending in congregational teams is strongly recommended. Small groups will be offered by location, identity (including BIPOC and Young Adult), and congregational roles.

Art For Social Justice

Curated by Ethel Gullette, Speaking of Justice Editorial Team

The Speaking of Justice Editorial Team offers weekly art to deepen our connection to the work for social justice and building the Beloved Community.  

Climbing PoeTree is a collaboration directed and inspired by two dynamic women, Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman. They use art as a tool to expose injustice, channel hope into vision, and make a better future conceivable and achievable.

We Survived

by Climbing PoeTree