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For the next Mothers for Peace meeting contact Jill Zamek at jzamek@gmail.com
Local Meeting of Multiple Agencies
You may join in person or via Zoom.
Welcome! In this world, where so much is divided and uncertain, we have forged a deep connection and an ongoing, respectful and welcoming environment.
Opening Doors of Interfaith Understanding is co-sponsored by People of Faith for Justice (PFJ) and the SLO Ministerial Association (SLOMA)
Mission Statement: Our goal is to promote interfaith respect, empathy, understanding and interpersonal relationships between and among individuals as the group studies and experiences the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith traditions.
Join us by Zoom
JOIN the MEETING HERE
UU, 2201 Lawton Ave., San Luis Obispo
In Person--Wear a mask, please
People of Faith for Justice is proud to bring our community together again on Martin Luther King Sunday!
Join our pilgrimage on the Civil Rights Trail as we reflect on the power of non-violence over violence. How do we protect and advance MLK's legacy today?
Plastic pollution is wreaking havoc on marine ecosystems along the coast and in communities across California, endangering the health of people and animals. In one example, plastic debris has been found in 25 percent of California's fish, causing injury and death and carrying across the food web, eventually to humans. A recent study found people consume as much as 5 grams of plastic per week, the equivalent of a credit card's worth of toxic material cycling through our bodies.
Companies are creating crushing amounts of plastic pollution, and Californians are forced to bear the costs. But a new ballot initiative could change that and hold manufacturers -- not taxpayers -- accountable for the pollution they produce.
Californians have an opportunity to stem this wave of waste in a ballot initiative this November. The Plastics Free California Initiative will introduce extended producer responsibility (EPR) measures that make plastics producers shoulder the costs of recycling and waste management for the products they produce.
California's EPR would change recycling in three ways:
By shifting the cost of recycling from the consumer to the producer, the EPR measures will strike plastics production and pollution at its source. Producers will be incentivized to create sustainable packaging and disincentivized to continue perpetuating the single-use, disposable culture that has put the health of California's residents and environment at risk.
Join thousands of Californians in pledging to support this critical ballot initiative to create a future free of plastics. We'll keep you up-to-date as the ballot measure progresses.
Visit https://only.one/act/protectcalifornia
Review all the details at our website: PasoFoodCooperative.com
North County NeighborAid--Food, Love and Community Service
To stay up to date on the local situation and when state, local, and Sierra Club policy may allow outdoor group recreational activities, we suggest you join the Santa Lucia Chapter Meetup group.
Sierra Club Santa Lucia Chapter
May 11 - Hike and DineJoin SLO Climate Coalition
You are invited by Yes We Can Peacebuilders to the meeting of the Peace Tea Nonviolence Discussion Group at Estero Bay United Methodist Church, 3000 Hemlock Ave., Morro Bay.
At our first meetings we talked about how fear, anger, and grief affect our daily lives as we look at a world in turmoil. We experienced a new understanding of violence doing the 'Violence Spectrum' exercise and discussed the three elements of violence on Galtung's Triangle of Violence.
Now we will take our search for understanding further as we explore nonviolence through quotes from prominent people of peace and we will create a mind map consisting of our own descriptions of nonviolence.
Then we will dig deeper into our understanding by exploring the words 'Free' and 'Equal,' as they relate to the choices available to us in our lives and our rights and opportunities. We hope you will join us!
Discussions are held using the Circle of Trust methodology offering the participants the opportunity to dialogue without rancor, judgment, or advice on the topics of real world and community problems.
Citizens Climate Lobby monthly meeting ONLINE, Unitarian Universalists San Luis Obispo, Lawton & South St. Email for more info: SanLuisObispo@CitizensClimateLobby.org
R.A.C.E. Matters SLO
Our mission is to create artistic, cultural, educational and social experiences that amplify Black voices and matters of racial justice. Our guiding principles call us to prioritize the voices, views and needs of Black, and other people of color, within our organization and in our community.
To those ends, we have partnered with Michelle Shoresman at the SLO Public Health Department to create a universal message encouraging vaccination against COVID-19 that we think you might find appropriate to share with your congregation. We would suggest showing this during your online services, perhaps posting it onto your Website, Face Book or Instagram page, or sharing it in any other way you think your congregants would be receptive to it.
The support of the religious community is so important in this outreach effort. We know that our Black and brown communities are finding it more difficult to get vaccinated against COVID 19 than members of other communities in our county, and we hope this 3 minute PSA would perhaps encourage more folks to 'take the shot.'
You can view the 3 minute PSA on R.A.C.E. Matters' Web site (racemattersslo.org) or here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCzyvgPrUH0
We hope you are able to pass this along to your friends, networks and congregants through whatever means you think the most people will view it. Please feel free to reach out to me or Preston Allen, also a member of our board, with feedback or any questions you might have.
In faith,
R.A.C.E. Matters SLO // Gina Whitaker - 805 305-0612 // Preston Allen - 805 235-2028
Ep. 0122--Chuck Collins: The Industry that Saves Billionaires Millions
Ep. 1221--Della Duncan: Renegade Economics
Ep. 1121--Lauren Van Ham: Radical Inter-religious Cooperation Is Working to Save Life on Our Planet
Ep. 1021--A U.S./Mexico Conversation on Living the Alternative Worldview We Call OneEarth Jubilee
Ep. 0921--Eric LeCompte, director of Jubilee USA Network, on Reducing Student Debt
Ep. 0821--Brenda Wyss: Feminist Economics Is Creating Just Systems That Meet Current Crises
The podcast is on PAUSE. All 250+ episodes are available -- one at a time -- as part of a FREE Simpler Living Daily Nudge subscription. Send NUDGE to SimpleLivingWorks@yahoo.com.
Climate Change Is Code Red for Humanity
Petition to Government Officials from Mothers for Peace SLO
visit https://chng.it/zKgLJk8cFS
VISIT https://www.populationconsciousness.earth/
Season of Creation
Additional Resource Guide and Ideas
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People of Faith for Justice is BLOGGING! Visit our Web site to see recent blogs by Gina Whitaker, Jason Sisk-Provencio, Rich Kurrasch More to come... We are grateful for your continued interest and support during the time we have taken to revive and refresh! Please consider making a donation to help us continue these new efforts and offerings.We greatly appreciate your generosity!
People of Faith for Justice Podcasting and Blogging! New Monthly Episode each 4th Thursday. -- Find our podcasts at peopleoffaithforjustice.org Click on PODCAST along the top menu. Subscribe for free and please SHARE! Also available at https://pfjpodcast.libsyn.com/
Courses from Pace e Bene--REGISTER HERE
Please help us recruit more sponsors for asylum-seekers!
We hope that one of Asylum-Seekers Sponsorship Project's recent "Sponsorship 101" sessions will be helpful in your process of deciding whether sponsorship is right for you or your congregation/community!
Regardless of whether sponsorship is the right fit for you, we'd love to get your help in letting others in your network know about the program in case it might be the right fit for them! Below, I've listed the registration links for each of our next four orientation sessions, as well as shareable flyers for the May and June calls that you can post on social media.
Thank you so much for helping us build out a bigger/wider network of folks who are opening doors and hearts to asylum-seekers each day!
Many thanks,
Heather Cronk <heather.cronk@gmail.com> (on behalf of the ASSP team)
Contact: FreedomFund.naacpslo@gmail.com
NAACP SLO County Website
Featuring musician Moby along with top scientists, and created by physician-turned-environmentalist Sofia Pineda Ochoa, ENDGAME 2050 is an urgent call to action to tackle the existential crises bearing down on the planet.
Mondays--Unlearning Racism/Oppression Classes
Racism is a construct made in the mind of the oppressor and projected into the minds of the oppressed; to be experienced in Fear, Anger, Grief, Boredom and Guilt... Creating self hate and sickness and bad habits.
Weekly series of classes, Mondays via Zoom. Free Introductory Lecture (45 minutes) provides details about continuing class format, costs and materials.
SPACE IS LIMITED
* RSVP REQUIRED TO RECEIVE ZOOM LINK INFO TO PARTICIPATE *
Reserve Your Space
https://naacpslocty.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Unlearning-racismoppression-final.pdf
ONE-STOP SHOP of environmental webinars at bit.ly/EnviroWebinars . With COVID, events and educational programs have moved online, and finding and keeping up with all of them can be challenging, so this makes it easier for people to stay informed and engaged.
Receive the Informative SLO Co. eNewsletter "RESIST 45 GRASSROOTS ACTION CALENDAR." Send your email address to: John Lamb ind.rrtslo@gmail.com, Indivisible: Rapid Response Team SLO Coordinator; SLO Grassroots Action Coalition Facilitator
Worthwhile Colleague Organizations
Extinction Rebellion US (Central Coast CA) // Mothers for Peace // Santa Lucia Sierra Club // WomensMarchSLO.com/ // NAACP-SLO Co. Branch
BLOGS, PODCASTS, VIDEOS
One Planet, One Child Campaign from Population Balance and The OverPopulation Podcast
OneEarth Jubilee Blog -- Let's Think & Act Jubilee
Subscribe to Jubilee OneEarth Economics email list and receive a free copy of Jubilee Circles. Click on the Download link in your Welcome Email. Paperback copies are available from Amazon for $5.99.
Lee Van Ham's "Jubilee Circles" is available now also as an audiobook, at iTunes, Nook Audiobooks, Google Play, and Audiobooks.com, which offers a free sample. It includes 20 actions to take to help keep our planet livable.
https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/jubilee-circles/381421 THAT'S THE LINK to the audio version of the little book "Jubilee Circles: Help Save Life on the Planet." Please share this audio version with all who'd like to listen while jogging, walking, etc.
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CrazyTown: Post-Carbon Institute
Patheos--Progressive Christian
HopeCast with Jane Goodall
What Could Possible Go Right? with Vicki Robin and the PostCarbon Institute
Jesus for Everyone from Renewed Heart Ministries with Herb Montgomery
Imagine with Us (SpiritualProgressives.org, Tikkun.org)
Peace Podcast from John Dear on Apple // Google Author of 'They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and NonViolence in a Time of Climate Change' -- SLW! #114: Part 1 // TCGP #98: Part 2
BLOGS
Jerry's Guide: Where to Get Books? // The OneEarth Project
10 Tips for Simpler, More Meaningful Celebrations
Healthy Political Practices & Spiritual Disciplines // Post-'16 Election Emergency/Disaster Preparedness and Survival Guide
Tips for Banishing Fake News // Simpler Living SANITY Suggestions
SLW! Blog--Nudge (click '+Follow' to subscribe)
We're Inviting Sierra Club to Rethink Overpopulation--Issue of Magazine Rife with Misassumptions
The Nov./Dec.'19 issue of Sierra Club's magazine, Sierra, attempted to dissuade readers from concerning themselves about population's role in the damage we're doing to the life-supporting ecosystems of our planet. The writers and editors recommended focusing on our behavior instead. But if behavior is the problem, isn't the number of people misbehaving part of the sustainability equation? Of course, so The Overpopulation Podcast team recorded this episode to set the record straight. We can't afford to ignore either one.
You won't want to miss this episode! Read more and hear the podcast here.
Family Safety Guide for Immigrants / Guía de Seguridad para Familias de Inmigrantes -- http://www.ccc-uss.org/safety-guide.html
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