THE WEEK AHEAD: UUCM Is partnering with Beacon to host a screening of Jim Crow of the North on Tuesday, February 4 at 6:30 p.m. The TPT documentary explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. It also illustrates how African-American families and leaders resisted this insidious practice, and how Black people built community — within and despite — the red lines that these restrictive covenants created. Contact Sue Fust with questions.
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UUCM Midweek Message | January 29, 2025
Rev. Lisa shares UUCM’s commitment to helping us meet this moment and find our place in the unfolding story of our current world. Please listen to her message of invitation and click here to share your thoughts in our new form if you would like UUCM’s support. Please click image below to view this week’s message.
UUCM is participating in the UUA’s 30 Days of Love. We are honored to share this week’s resources and practices. Week Two of Side With Love’s 30 Days of Love reminds us that trans people are worthy of living lives full of joy and safety. Our power is grounded in our values that proclaim the transformative power of love and harness the enduring power of community. Visit Side With Love to view all this week’s 30 Days of Love resources, including ways to take action, activities for families and journaling practice.
Save the Date: At the River I Stand Film Screening
Please join the UUCM Racial Justice Team in the sanctuary on Saturday, February 22 at 2 p.m. for a film screening of the 1993 documentary At the River I Stand with guest speaker Amanda Goodman-Berry. The film is about the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Amanda Goodman-Berry is a longtime union leader at Delta Airlines, formerly Northwest Airlines. She is part of the current union organizing drive for Delta ramp workers. Amanda and other union organizers have pushed back against Delta using Dr. King as a marketing prop while also trying to block their workers from unionizing. The movie is about an hour long and will be followed by Amanda’s remarks and a group discussion.
This event connects the struggles of the civil rights era with the current struggle for economic justice at one of the South’s premier corporations – Delta Airlines. In 1968 sanitation workers in Memphis took the radical action of an illegal strike after two workers were killed on the job. Martin Luther King joined their struggle for safety, respect on the job, and fair compensation – and it cost him his life. Stirring and shocking footage from the time includes Dr. King’s last speech, given to striking workers the day before he was assassinated.
Delta Airlines portrays itself as a “woke” corporation while simultaneously trying to block its workers’ efforts to unionize. After Delta produced a video about Dr. King that left out his support for economic justice and unionization, guest speaker Amanda Goodman-Berry wrote a letter to Delta leadership inviting them to meet workers in Memphis to talk about what Martin Luther King died for – the very same safety, respect on the job, and fair compensation that everyone deserves and Delta workers are trying to achieve through unionization.
Invite your friends, and help promote the event!
- Share this printable flyer
- And use these for graphics for social media posts
Background Information:
People’s March Plan Update
A group from UUCM will be carpooling to The People’s March tomorrow, Saturday, January 18. Here’s a schedule of the plans for the day:
- Meet at UUCM at 10 a.m. to carpool
- Leave UUCM at 10:20 a.m.
- We’ll meet with other UU congregations between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. north of the Cathedral in the open space near Marshall Ave.
- Pre-march rally begins at 11:30 a.m. at St. Paul College (235 Marshall Avenue, Saint Paul)
- Gather in Parking Lots D and E
- March from St. Paul College to the Minnesota State Capitol at Noon
- Capitol Program 12:30–1:30 p.m. (on the Capitol steps at 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, St. Paul)
- Carpoolers return to UUCM at 2 p.m.
- Note: Capitol Rotunda and indoor restrooms will be open from 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
MUUSJA is asking UUs attending to RSVP here. Contact Virginia Carter with questions.
Start with Home Rally
THE WEEK AHEAD: Please join the Housing Justice Team at the Start with Home Rally at the State Capitol on Tuesday, January 21 at 10 a.m. Rev. Lisa will be MCing the event! We’ll be joining legislators and advocates calling for saving and creating more homes, expanding access and opportunity and securing predictable housing investments. Please click here to register.
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