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Though we face uncertainty in the post political landscape will be in that moment, we know we will need to lean on each other for inspiration, commitment, resources, and community. This meeting will focus on inviting leaders to share stories from their experiences  supporting Immigration Justice. We will hear from Regina Corrao from First Parish Concord, and Rev Jamie Hinson Rieger from First Parish Bedford, and open up space for skill and resource sharing, connecting, and strategizing. We will reground in our commitment to Immigration and social justice, and support each other in moving through and moving forward in the weeks immediately post-election and beyond. 

If you have a story you want to share from your or your congregations immigration justice work, please email Tali here!

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This gathering is an opportunity to hear updates about all our campaigns and take action together. Actions include calling your legislators, signing petitions, and more to support our frontline and coalition partners. We will focus on Protecting the Right to Shelter, alongside any other actions from our key campaign partners. We will walk you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have. You are invited to wear a fun hat, costume, or have a fun zoom background at this Halloween themed Action Hour!

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UU Mass Action, in partnership with our UU Youth Corps and our partners in the Right to Shelter movement invite you to join us at the Arlington UU congregation for a Right to Shelter action call on Gov. Healey to restore the Right to Shelter. We hope to see you there!

If you work with young people who would like to help plan, please email Tali!

Many congregations are on the journey to heal our relationship with the stolen land we inhabit. Hear from Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs and Rev. Dr. Michelle Walsh of the First Parish UU-Canton on how they have developed connections with the Neponset Band of the Massachusett Tribe residing on Ponkapoag land and partnered with the Town of Canton’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in doing so.

We invite you to gather with the UU Mass Action Indigenous Solidarity Team. We organize with MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda (a statewide grassroots Indigenous led coalition) to win collective political victories for Indigenous justice while also connecting and building community.

Register in advance for this meeting, After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Thirteen days before the election, we invite you to ground into the effectiveness of Get Out the Vote efforts. Come for the connection, the facts on why this work is strategic, and leave nourished.

We invite you to gather with the UU Mass Action Climate Justice Team. We organize with Mass Power Forward (a statewide grassroots climate coalition) to win collective political victories for climate and environmental justice while also connecting and building community.

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Join our training to come out of the Election as a STRONGER and more WHOLE leader and organizer. Amidst wars, climate disasters and more, this fall many people are taking more action. This training will help social justice advocates learn to knit together stronger teams for social justice. Join us for 90 minutes of reflection, grounding and skills.

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 Join our October UU Immigration Justice Team meeting for a conversation about our upcoming elections in the context of our commitment to Immigration Justice. Together, we will reflect on how immigration has been impacted by previous administrations, explore how different immigration justice organizations are orienting to these elections, and ground ourselves in our commitment to show up for immigration justice in the long term locally and beyond. 

We will be joined by Nora Rasman, Democracy Strategist at Side with Love. 

Nora was born, raised and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has organized with Working Families Party, Mijente, and Showing Up For Racial Justice. Her political work began as a UU youth and grew into doing solidarity and advocacy work with Afro-descendant civil society organizations. She sees her work and contributions as accountable to liberation movements.

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Join our first UU Action Hour of the church year! We hope this can be one structure to support each other in staying accountable to showing up to these campaigns. We will walk you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have.

Our focus will continue to be to protect the Right to Shelter, but will include any other current actions from our campaign partners!

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WHAT: Press Conference and Action

WHERE: Meet at Nurse's Hall, 2nd Floor of the Boston Statehouse

Join us at the state house to call on Governor Healey to not kick the climate can down the road. We must stop expanding the for-profit gas utility system, and right now Governor Healey is proposing a flimsy climate bill with no plan for ending the expansion (the only silver lining is an excellent environmental justice definition of cumulative impact analysis). 

You are invited to:

a) wear a suit jacket and play a legislator "kicking the climate can"

b) wear red and hold a sign with our call for a robust climate bill now!

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On July 23rd, Governor Healey announced changes to the Emergency Assistance (EA) family shelter system that will force children and their families out with no safe place to sleep at night.

Join UU Mass Action and our partners continue to organize to REPEAL these new rules and RESTORE the Right to Shelter at this in person action today!

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 Learn about the new, cruel changes to our Right to Shelter policies, the impacts on families, and how you can support. Guests speakers will include groups such as BIJAN, Homes for All, Greater Boston Legal Services, MA Coalition for the Homeless, and Homes for All. 

This will be a powerful and important gathering for all UUs who are looking to deepen their involvement in support of immigration and housing justice in this moment. 

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The state continues to say that families sleeping on the streets should go to Temporary Respite Centers. If they do that they a) are only guaranteed housing for 5 days b) have to wait 6 months in order to be put on the emergency shelter waitlist. It is a punitive system. Families are given an impossible choice and make the best decisions they can. Join us on Thursday Sept 5th *inside* the State House in to call on Governor Healey to repeal the new shelter laws and restore the Right to Shelter! 

Thank you to all who have shown up in the last month in support of families and children having the right to shelter, and a safe place to sleep at night. Join us on Thursday to call on our leaders to demand that the state must respond to the crisis it has created. 

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We are hosting a second Restore Right to Shelter Action Hour where we will take action to call our leaders to reverse this policy. We will be joined by Kelly Turley from MA Coalition for the Homeless, and Carolyn Chou from Homes for All, who will share more of what's going on. 

We are exploring opening congregations for families to sleep under tents for people with literally no where to go for nights due to Gov Healey's new regulations.

Join us on Thursday, August 15 at 3pm for a conversation with UU Mass Action, our partners, and other congregations who are exploring what is possible. Sign up here to get the link for Thursday, or email Tali here if you want to get involved. 

Time TBD!

On Wednesday, August 14, there will be a vigil outside the State House to support the Right to Shelter. Email Tali here if you would like to join!

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Join us on Wednesday at 12-1pm for a special Action Hour to protect the Right to Shelter in the days leading up to the first families being forced out of Emergency Shelter. 

Andrea Park from Mass Law Reform Institute and Adam Hoole from Greater Boston Legal Services will join to share about what is happening and the impact of this new ruling, then we will take action together!

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On July 23rd, Governor Healey announced changes to the Emergency Assistance (EA) family shelter system that will force children and their families out with no safe place to sleep at night. This policy change will disproportionately impact immigrant families, both new arrivals and long-term MA residents. (More details here.) This is another step towards dismantling the EA shelter system that has been in place for over 40 years.

Here are ways you can take action: 

• Join us at the State House on, Monday July 29 at 11AM to call on our leaders to uphold access to shelter for children and families.

• There will be an action in Springfield as well today Monday, July 29, 11am-12pm in front of the Governor’s Western Massachusetts office, 436 Dwight St., Suite 300, Springfield, MA 01103

• We are exploring opening congregations lawns for families to sleep under tents for people with literally no where to go for nights. If you are open to exploring this, please email tsmookler@uumassaction.org

• As we've shared all year,  signing up to house immigrant families in the short term is still incredibly helpful. More info here, let me know if you want to chat about it! Recording of a session about hosting, pw: PFz5?yZQ; Here's some FAQ;  sign up to host page. 

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In the final days of the formal 2023-24 legislative session, we will gather to take actions together to move our bills across the finish line!

This gathering is an opportunity to hear updates about all our campaigns and take action together, such as calling your legislators, signing petitions, and more to support our frontline and coalition partners. We will focus on our key issues areas: climate justice, immigrant justice, criminal law reform, Indigenous Legislative Agenda, and economic justice. We know that we send out a lot of opportunities to take action each week, and hope this can be one structure to support each other in staying accountable to showing up to these campaigns. We will walk you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have.

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Please mark your calendars and join us for our next quarterly meeting of the UUMA Certified Working Group: Black Lives Matter.

Newcomers are always welcome!  We will also be encouraging folks to share any recent challenges or successes they have had while pursuing anti oppression work in their congregation. Our proposed agenda can be found here.   Any questions, please email Patty: shepard.patty@gmail.com 

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Last week, the Senate voted on their Climate Omnibus bill. UU Mass Action with our partners at Mass Power Forward actively organized emails, calls, and in person mobilizing in the State House to advocate for the strongest possible language in alignment with environmental justice leaders. You can read their full press release here.  

With just one month left, the work is far from over. We hope you will join UU Mass Action alongside our partners for our July action!

RSVP, *AND* email tsmookler@uumassaction.org to meet up with other UUs!

Join UU Mass Action as we show up with our partners at Families for Justice as healing for an in person action just weeks away from the end of the session to demand our leaders pass the Prison Moratorium and Elder Parole bills!

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Food! Singing! Optional Games!

Celebrating  our accomplishments! 

Join us in person on Tuesday, July 9 from 6:30 - 8:30PM in Framingham for a UU Mass Action community gathering to celebrate all our work together this year. We will share highlights from our work together this year, and provide nourishment both through food and through song. This is a wonderful opportunity to spend a summer evening with other UUs who care about justice, learn about our Youth Corps, campaign teams, and our partners, and build community. We hope you can join!

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 Do you find it challenging to make time to sign petitions, call your legislators, or send emails about issues you care about? Commit to just one hour!

With just around **1 month** left in the two year legislative session, this is a critical time to take action to move our priority bills forward. Join us for this UU Action Hour to hear updates about all our campaigns and take action together to support our frontline and coalition partners. We will guide you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have.

Join our June UU Indigenous Justice Solidarity Team meeting as we near the final weeks of this legislative session!

Sign up here to join the email list to stay updated. 

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As we near the final weeks of the legislative session, join Mass Power Forward for an Advocacy Day to support climate justice legislation. This will all be vitual, and will include trainings beforehand!

Advocacy Day Agenda:

• 11AM - 12PM Kick Off - On Zoom

• 12PM Lunch

• 1PM - 2PM - Last Minute Optional Preparation Time

• 2PM: Meetings with Reps

• 3:30pm: Meetings with Senators

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Hosted by BIJAN, Never Again Action, and UU Mass Action

Are you boiling over Biden's border bill too? Join us this week for a virtual Action Hour! We will take action together to chip away at the system that allows the expansion of an asylum ban by fighting to free our community members from ICE jail and stop the expansion of cages.

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Join our last monthly UU Immigrant Justice Team meeting of this church year! At this meeting we will reflect and celebrate on all we have accomplished together, hear about other congregation's efforts and learnings from this year, and vision together about what we can build on for the coming year. 

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Join UU Mass Action's Movement Building Director Claire Karl alongside other advocates and policy experts to hear important updates about what's happening with the proposed MA climate change and climate justice legislation, and how we can help get it across the finish line!