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The members of the Racial Justice Ministry (RJM) met within two hours of the verdict being announced in the George Floyd murder case. We had planned a few days prior to meet and prepare to support the congregation through any outcome. We started our meeting by checking in on how people were feeling after hearing … Continue reading UUCWC Racial Justice Ministry Reflects on Derek Chauvin Conviction
by Michelle Hunt, Right Relations Committee In June of 2018, our congregation approved the 8th UU Principle: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in … Continue reading Policies on When We Call the Police Under Review
Please join us for a Side With Love Watch Party: The Black Church February 16 & 17 @ 8:45pm-11:15pm EST Co-Hosted by Revs. Duncan Teague & Michael Crumpler Register Now Side With Love invites you to join as they livestream the premiere of PBS’s The Black Church, an epic production about the impacts of the … Continue reading Side with Love Watch Party
The Long Shadow is a PBS documentary about Director Frances Causey’s personal living experience of white privilege in the context of the history of anti-black racism in the US. She exposes her own family’s history of slaveholding and looks at how slavery continues to have an impact today. During the week of Martin Luther King … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry Co-sponsors Screening of “The Long Shadow”
Racial Justice Ministry Virtual Forum, October 27, 2020Awareness to Activism – Handling Exhaustion, Theirs & Ours Our speakers were: Darren “Freedom” Green, Trenton activist & Outreach Coordinator Trenton Housing Authority (Juneteenth speak 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MtJut-3kU Carol Watchler, Community Outreach Coordinator for the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice (Board member bio: scroll down https://www.rustincenter.org/board-of-directors
Transforming Criminal Justice in Our Lifetime: Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow 10 Years Later Thursday, September 24, 2020 7:00 – 9:00pm You are invited to attend this conference sponsored by the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow – Greater Trenton Chapter. UUCWC is a co-sponsor of the event. Download the flyer (pdf). Keynote … Continue reading Sept 24: Transforming Criminal Justice in Our Lifetime (Online event)
June 2020Report of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Commission on Institutional Change is charged with supporting long-term cultural and institutional change that redeems the essential promise and ideals of Unitarian Universalism. Appointed by the UUA Board of Trustees in 2017 for a period of two years with an extension … Continue reading UUA Report: Widening the Circle of Concern
As the names of cis and trans black men and women, as well as non-binary folks who have died at the hands of those who are entrusted to protect and to serve continue to pile up in the streets, we the members of the Unitarian Universalist Church at Washington Crossing shout from the banks of … Continue reading Honoring Our 8th Principle To Racial Justice
The UUCWC Council for Faith in Action’s (CFA) recent quarterly meeting included members of the Food Ministry Team. Following the update of activities from all CFA Teams, the group focused on the impact of COVID-19 and the growing need regarding food insecurity in our communities in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It became clear that … Continue reading CFA and Food Ministry Working to Address Food Insecurity
By Dan Tuft, Racial Justice Ministry Over five years ago our community embarked on a journey to educate ourselves and act upon our understanding of not only the insidious, enduring structural aspects of racism in our world, but to also gain an understanding and willingness to change the inadvertent, at times unseen, and casual participation … Continue reading Racial Justice Ministry: 8th Principle Check In
