Rev. Lisa reminds us of the importance of knowing and sharing stories which ground us in our deepest values. She tells the story of how UU’s and others because known as the love people in the yellow shirts and invites us to join in Side with Love’s 30 Days of Love Campaign. Please click the image below to view video.
Visual Description: Rev. Lisa has dark curly hair and is wearing blue glasses and a bright yellow shirt with a grey couch and blue wall behind her.
Week One of Side With Love’s 30 Days of Love initiative invites us to grow and practice our dreams around the theme “We Are Home,” from United We Dream‘s immigrant justice coalition. Visit Side With Love to view all this week’s 30 Days of Love resources, including ways to take action, something to watch, three activities for families, a body practice, journaling practice, and a creative practice.
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.
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.
RIDWELL REMINDER: The next featured items are plastic caps and lids. Please bring them before the next prep party on January 27 at 2 p.m.Our usual items are always welcome including: light bulbs, multi-layer plastic, plastic film, threads and shoes and clean rigid white styrofoam. Please be saving for upcoming featured items including: silverware and kitchen utensils, denim clothing, keys, usable plastic coat hangars. Thanks for working toward zero waste! Contact Kathy (612-590-9606) or Sue (612-703-2297) with questions 💚
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