Rally and Witness

At GA, I attended the rally described below, to raise awareness about family friendly (and unfriendly) legislation. Quoted below is the follow up e-mail from UUA's Congregational Advocacy and Witness group, fyi:

On Friday, June 27th, you were among over 650 Unitarian Universalists who gathered with interfaith and community leaders in Stranahan Park to demonstrate our support for BGLT and immigrant families. We listened as an immigrant family told us about the injustice that they and others in their community are experiencing. And you filled out a Valuing ALL Families card pledging to Stand on the Side of Love and support family-friendly legislation.

Now you can take the next step in supporting immigrant families by following
this link and urging your Representative to support the Child Citizen Protection
Act:

Fifteen percent of all families in the United States include at least one non-citizen parent and a U.S. citizen child. Many of these families are at riskof being torn apart by detention or deportation. The Child Citizen Protection Act would return judicial discretion to immigration judges so they can take into account a family's well-being. Judges would be empowered to preventdeportations in cases where an undocumented parent's deportation would harmfully affect his or her citizen child.
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Let your Representative know that you value ALL families, and urge them to support the Child Citizen Protection Act!

For more information about how the Unitarian Universalist Association can support your work for immigrant and BGLT rights, you can:

Check out the UUA.org Social Justice webpages on Immigration

Learn about Unitarian Universalists and the New Sanctuary Movement
Read Welcoming Our Neighbors: An Immigration Resource for UnitarianUniversalists
Sign Up for the monthly Unitarian Universalist Immigrant Justice Email List
Sign up for BGLT Network News