JUSTICE UPDATE BLOG POSTS

These Justice Update posts feature a main justice topic you can learn more about and describe justice opportunities available in the month they came out. To see the most up-to-date justice opportunities, check out our Take Action page

• Justice Update: Join Eco-Justice + Fair Districts

  June 26, 2021

  Amanda Hays

  Dear First UU, I’m hoping you’ve had the chance to tune into some of our virtual Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly (“GA”) this week, whether that be worship services, general sessions, or workshops. GA is a great opportunity to connect into the heart of our faith movement, including the internal and external work for justice of our fellow UUs. It’s still not too late to check out GA this year – for our Sunday morning service at 10am ET, we will be streaming the GA Sunday Service! This month, our Justice Update highlights our Eco-Justice Focus Group and the Ohio redistricting process. This Sunday, our ...
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OTHER RECENT JUSTICE NEWS

• Justice Update: Ohio Voting Reforms?

  May 31, 2021

  Dear First UU, If you didn’t catch it, our service this week discussed what we’ve learned as a congregation about how White Supremacy shows up in the world around us, and ...
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• Justice Update: B.R.E.A.D. Nehemiah Action May 11 & Police Accountability

  April 23, 2021

  Dear First UU, This has been an overwhelming week as the police officer who murdered George Floyd on camera was finally pronounced guilty. It feels like a move forward for racial ...
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• Justice Update: Feed & Read Ohio + Defending our Rights

  March 31, 2021

  Feed & Read Ohio, Gratitude, and Defending our Rights   Dear First UU, There’s hope in the air with spring and the vaccine now available to everyone 16 and up in Ohio. But ...
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• Justice Update: Advocate for Vaccination

  February 25, 2021

  Hope you’re enjoying the warmer temperatures and blue skies this week, as well as the wonderful news that Edith Espinal and Miriam Vargas are now free to leave the churches ...
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• Justice Update: Defund Fear

  January 24, 2021

  Tuesday January 26, 2021 Our Racial Justice and Immigration Focus Group hosted an opportunity to watch a webinar from UUA’s Side With Love and then gather in a Zoom meeting with ...
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• Justice Update: December 2020

  December 12, 2020

  Hear farmworker Oscar from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and organizer Uriel from the Fair Food Alliance as they share an update on the Wendy’s campaign and discuss how ...
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• BLM Perspectives

  October 10, 2020

  Justice Update #BLM – or Black Lives Matter – has different interpretations according to the audience. The message here is from the perspective of a long-time UU who tries to take a ...
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• Racial Justice and Immigration

  October 3, 2020

  Today’s Justice Saturday is about the work of the Racial Justice and Immigration (RJI) JAM Focus Group, specifically its work for immigrant justice. We invite you to learn more about RJI ...
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• Healthcare in the Context of a Pandemic

  September 26, 2020

  Alice Faryna is a physician who experienced the incredible dysfunction of our current medical system personally over her many years in this career. Her experience in more recent years working ...
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• Justice Update: Real Change Now

  August 29, 2020

  Update on BREAD’s “Real Change Now” Campaign BREAD (Building Responsibility, Equality, and Dignity) is Central Ohio’s congregation-based, multi-faith community organization founded by First UU and ten other congregations over 20 ...
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