2024-05-24 Tapestry UU + CLUE: Reparations Now! with Kamilah V. Moore

** Please send a letter to your CA reps in support of our 2024 Reparations legislation!! **
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Tapestry Unitarian Universalist Congregation &
CLUE’s OC Interfaith Racial Justice Network
present
Reparations Now!
A Faith-Rooted Conversation on the CA Reparations Task Force's Findings, Proposals and Next Steps

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024, 6-8pm, on Zoom

Featured Guests:
Pamela Flodman, UU Fellowship of Laguna Beach
Sheryl Hagen, Racial Justice Task Force, Tapestry UU, Lake Forest Ca
Kamilah Moore, Esq., Chair of the California Reparations Task Force
Adam Overton, CLUE & the OC Interfaith Racial Justice Network
Rev. KC Marie Pandell, Minister Summit UU Fellowship, Santee Ca
Rev. Celia Young, Community Interfaith Chaplain

In 2023 the California Reparations Task Force completed a 1,000+ page report on the horrific history and effects of slavery in the state of California, a stain on our nation that to this day has had dramatic repercussions for the descendants of those people America enslaved. To conclude their report, the CA Reparations Task Force offered over 100 common-sense recommendations for reparatory legislation that could start to right this immeasurable wrong!

In January 2024, California legislators got to work by proposing 19 bills of reparative legislation! As we speak, these bills are currently winding their way through Senate and Assembly committees in Sacramento. With adequate community support and concerted pressure on our electeds, all of these bills have the possibility of becoming law. All other states in the nation have their eyes on California to see if we can accomplish this!

** What role will Unitarian Universalists and other faith communities in California play in righting this historic wrong, and helping re-pay this immeasurable debt? **

Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and its Orange County Interfaith Racial Justice Network have been hosting faith-rooted presentations featuring Kamilah V. Moore, the Chair of the California Reparations Task Force, to educate and organize anti-racists of faith across the region for this first-ever opportunity to enact real, impactful reparative legislation — a struggle that will likely continue for years to come, but that begins NOW.

Tapestry Unitarian Universalist Congregation’s Racial Justice Task Force is proud to host this UU-wide presentation!

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Tapestry Racial Justice Task Force

Tapestry Unitarian Universalist Congregation’s Racial Justice Task Force is proud to host this presentation. The task force engages with their congregation in education and dialogue to support passage of the 8th 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 accountability dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.”


The Orange County Interfaith Racial Justice Network

The Orange County Interfaith Racial Justice Network aims to bring together our respective faith-rooted anti-racism communities, alongside BIPOC-led (BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) racial justice organizations doing urgent, real-time, on-the-ground advocacy to dismantle white supremacy in our state, county & beyond. Our network focuses on nonviolent local efforts to end or lessen the harms of incarceration, policing, hate, and structural racism.

Through regular meetings and presentations, we work to educate, agitate and organize local anti-racists of faith, so that we may be respectful and effective allies and accomplices for the BIPOC communities leading the racial justice movement in Orange County. We also work to educate our partners about the history and strengths of organizing faith communities into their campaigns.

CLUE Justice OC encourages faith community leaders and activists whose hearts are called to engage in the struggle against racial injustice to join our listserv and bi-monthly meetings to receive updates and action items from partners, and to better know one another and work together. Meetings are odd months on the 2nd Thursday, from 1-2:30pm, usually on Zoom. Future meetings are July 11, Sept 12, and Nov 14, 2024.

For any new organizations or anti-racists of faith who wish to join, please reach out to CLUE organizer, Adam Overton, at [email protected].