Dear UUJME supporter,
Our colleagues at UU the Vote are hosting a Launch Party to address the 2022 midterm elections. UUJME's work is deeply tied to the election integrity and democracy. When we fight for voting rights and just elections, only then we can then move forward with our legislative work to resist the United States' egregious financial and military support of Israeli apartheid. See event information below to get involved in UU the Vote's efforts this election season.
Save the Date
UU the Vote 2022 Launch Party
Sunday, April 10, 2022
1pm PT/4pm ET
When we organize, we build power in our communities for justice, accountability, and healing. In the last two years, UU the Vote has built new networks of spiritual and political communities to #VoteLove and #DefeatHate. With UU the Vote 2022 we’re organizing on the state and local levels to fight for fair elections, advance voting rights, protect abortion access, and resist the targeting and criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities.
There is so much at stake in the 2022 midterm elections. Together, our communities can address the current threats to our democracy and human dignity. Join us in this fight on Sunday, April 10 at 4pm ET/1pm PT for the launch of UU the Vote 2022! #UUtheVote #VoteLove #DefeatHate
Join the UU the Vote 2022 Launch!
But, the 2022 midterm elections are not just about what’s at stake, but what is possible–a coordinated national movement of communities working together to fight for justice, accountability, and equity. This is a critical time to win real victories for our communities. Many of us have been fighting hard to pass critical voting rights legislation, end our reliance on fossil fuels, create a just pathway to citizenship for immigrant communities, and fight hateful and discriminatory anti-trans legislation. Elections have consequences and, as we see in Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, they can be awesome. Let’s bring our values to the midterm election and UU the Vote in 2022!
We’ll be sharing our strategies, resources, trainings, and actions to help you in your work during the midterm elections. Are you ready?
Yes, I’m ready to UU the Vote in 2022!
Right now, our faith calls us to do the work of building beloved community by embodying our values and showing up with and for our communities. We must protect victories won by decades of justice movement organizing and advance that work through lifting our collective voices in the 2022 midterm elections. Together, in partnership, Unitarian Universalists can come alive in the mass mobilization to UU the Vote in 2022. But we can’t do it with you!
Film: Of Land and Bread
Discussion: 4/10/22 3pm ET
On Sunday April 10, at 3 pm ET, join a discussion about the documentary Of Land and Bread. The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem invited Palestinians to film daily life under occupation. View it free in advance, and then join the panel discussion on Sunday. Register here to watch the film for free and join the discussion. Watch the trailer here.
Abstract:
Of Land and Bread offers an unmediated view of life under Israel’s occupation. Composed entirely of documentary footage from B’Tselem’s video archive, it shows Palestinian daily life governed by Israeli state violence. This violence is carried out by uniformed soldiers and police, but also by Israeli settlers acting under their protection and with the backing of the state. It is a story of a vulnerable life, with no political rights or the right to protest, a life on the receiving end of the project of dispossession of land and resources which is the Israeli occupation, and where one’s only “defense” is the camera.
Panelists:
Dr. Ruthie Ginsburg – Faculty, HaMidrasha School of Art, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel
Jamal Najjab – (Moderator) Photojournalist and human rights advocate
Roy Yellin – Director of Public Advocacy, B’Tselem, Israel
The April 2022 Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon is co-sponsored by the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
