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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 27

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UUCSJ’s Final Newsletter 2025

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jun 26

I talked with @astra.bsky.social about the apocalyptic politics of Christian Nationalists and tech oligarchs, how AI is capturing and altering us toward fascist ends, and how we can fight "end times fascism." Audio + transcript:

Traitors to the Earth: Fascism, Christian Nationalism, and the Tech Elite

“They understand that what they’re doing is devastating, and they’re doing it anyway,” says Astra Taylor.

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Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Revival Network @uu-yarn.bsky.social · Jun 26

On this day, June 26, we honor love’s triumph and the Unitarian Universalist commitment to the inherent worth and dignity of every person across identities and orientations.
Marriage equality is not simply law, it's an affirmation of justice, joy, and sacred belonging. 💗

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Jun 26

Re: Skrmetti and the ongoing attacks on trans youth and gender-affirming care, including in media outlets like NYT: This has never been about care or concern for young people.

Re-sharing our resource, We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth: bit.ly/SolidarityWithTransYouthBrief

Black text on a beige background, decorated with pale pink at the top and a sliver of pale blue at the bottom: "The attacks on trans youth and gender-affirming care have never been about care for young people. This is about enforcing racialized, gendered, cisheteronormative hierarchies through state-sanctioned and extralegal violence, all part of a white supremacist agenda.

—From 'We Must Fight in Solidarity with Trans Youth'"

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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 26

The world’s richest 1 percent of people increased their wealth by $33.9 trillion over the past decade, according to anti-poverty group #OxfamInternational ...This system still extracts wealth from the Global South to the superrich 1% in the Global North at a rate of US$30million an hour.

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Stop the Money Pipeline @stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social · Jun 20

Join us July 2nd at 7:00 p.m. ET | 4:00 p.m. PT for our final #ImmigrationJustice workshop!

Our friends at @ndlon.bsky.social will lead this workshop with a focus on how to launch an ICE OUT! campaign in your community.

Register here 🔗: stmp.link/immigrationj...

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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 21

"Conceding ground to attacks on trans people expands
opportunities for increased surveillance, policing, and criminalization across the board, and the
acceleration of white supremacist agendas. This fight belongs to all of us." @interruptcrim.bsky.social

#TransRightsAreHumanRights
#Solidarity

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our resource We Must Fight in Solidarity with Trans Youth situates the criminalization of gender-affirming care within a larger web, draws connections across our movements, provides historical context, and talks about the groups that are behind this trans eliminationist, white supremacist agenda:

We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth — Interrupting Criminalization

This brief is intended to help organizers working to stop the violence of surveillance, policing, and punishment and advance racial, reproductive, gender, LGBTQ, migrant, and disability justice.

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 21

"That’s why challenging criminalization rather than participating in it is essential to effective resistance.

In other words: criminalization got us here, criminalization is keeping us here, criminalization is definitely not going to get us out of here." @interruptcrim.bsky.social

#AbolitionNow

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Jun 20

The latest edition of our This Month in Criminalization newsletter is out now. In this resource, our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social shares hot topics and current legislative and policy developments in criminalization, and points people to relevant resources and calls to action: bit.ly/IC-TMIC6

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Al Otro Lado @alotrolado-org.bsky.social · Jun 20

🙏🏽 @wola-org.bsky.social for having our LGBTQ+ program coordinator Brigitte Lujano on your podcast! Tune in as she discusses how current immigration policies are creating life-or-death situations for LGBTQ+ migrants + what Al Otro Lado is doing to meet the moment.

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LGBTQ+ Migrants in the Crosshairs - WOLA

In the wake of escalating immigration enforcement targeting vulnerable migrant communities, this Pride Month episode brings essential perspective from the frontlines. We sit down with Brigitte Baltaza...

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Cultural Survival @culturalsurvival.org · Jun 20

On #WorldRefugeeDay, we honor displaced peoples worldwide. Indigenous refugees face unique struggles—losing not just homes but ancestral lands. Hear their voices in #CulturalSurvival’s June #IndigenousRightsRadio newsletter: mailchi.mp/culturalsurv...

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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 14

"Instead, we must expose and dismantle the supposed moral frameworks of the death-makers. We must craft our own narratives and uplift our own frameworks, which implicate the system itself" @prisonculture.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

#LetThisRadicalizeYou
Chapter Six

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jun 13

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate

"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jun 13

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate

"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Unitarian Universalist Young Adult Revival Network @uu-yarn.bsky.social · Jun 13

Hey all! If you are registered for the Online General Assembly, take a look! Here's the schedule for Emerging & Young Adults 💗

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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · Jun 13

🌈 Ready to renew your welcome? Many UU congregations haven’t revisited their Welcoming work in years. The Five Practices of Welcome Renewal help us reconnect, recommit, and grow.

💛 Deepen your welcome. Start here: bit.ly/4mShBZj

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The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · Jun 12

💜 New from the JUUst Breathe Podcast💜
What does it mean to center love in UU faith? Hear from Avery Miller-Fabregas and UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt in the season finale.

🎧 Watch now:

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#JUUstBreathe #UUSharedValues #LoveAtTheCenter

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On the left is Avery Miller-Fabregas, labeled with a red box that says “Panelist” and beige text box below that reads “Avery Miller-Fabregas.” Avery is a young person with a large afro hairstyle, wearing a dark brown blazer over a green top. They are standing against a neutral gray background and looking slightly toward the camera with a subtle smile.

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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 12

"While the expansion of electric vehicles (EVs) is often championed as a critical step toward decarbonization, the environmental cost of nickel extraction, particularly in regions like Halmahera, raises profound questions."

#JustTransitions
#ClimateJustice

Cultural Survival @culturalsurvival.org · Jun 12

🚨 Nickel mining for Electric Vehicles (EVs) is threatening forests and #IndigenousPeoples' communities in #Indonesia.

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Nickel for Electric Vehicles threatens key forests and the last nomadic tribes in Indonesia - Debates Indígenas

The rapid exploitation of Indonesia's renewable energy resources raises significant concerns. The Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park has become the epicenter of nickel extraction, a mineral deemed ess...

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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call to Action: "The US must immediately reverse its humanitarian aid cuts and urgently reinstate humanitarian
assistance to the most vulnerable people in Myanmar, including the Rohingya, other internally
displaced populations, and those affected by the earthquake."
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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Our asylum statute, which was first enacted as part of the 1980 Refugee Act, expressly provides that “[a]ny [noncitizen] who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States...irrespective of such [noncitizen’s] status, may apply for asylum” @alotrolado-org.bsky.social

Al Otro Lado @alotrolado-org.bsky.social · Jun 12

BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit together with @haitianbridge.bsky.social, @cgrsasylum.bsky.social, @immcouncil.org, @democracyforward.org, and @ccrjustice.org challenging Trump's asylum shutdown.

Read our joint statement ⤵️.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Jun 12

Tomorrow at 2:30-4 PM ET, our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social will be in conversation with our Abolition Journalism Fellow @lewispants.bsky.social for the closing keynote address of the 2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium. Register to join—it’s virtual and free: www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-criti...

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Jun 12

If you work with young people, or will be doing so this summer, join us on June 18th online for a deep dive into abolitionist resources that can take your summer youth programming to the next level! We’ll be walking you through our new compilation resource to use for political education with youth ⬇️

Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Jun 5

Wednesday, June 18 at 4-5:30 PM ET: ☀️ Are you working with young people this summer? Join us for a session where we will share a new resource that compiles abolitionist activities and tools to use with young people!

Learn more and register to join here: bit.ly/ICNews45

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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 11

"... historians say that the deployment of active duty Marines against Americans is unprecedented, and an escalation of anti-protest tactics at a time when Trump is grasping at every opportunity to seize power, suppress dissent and push the U.S. toward martial law." @sharonzhang.bsky.social

UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 11

"We push back against state violence not simply to defeat fascist advances but to build a world of collective liberation." @uusc4all.bsky.social

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Defending Democracy and Civil Liberties Against Escalating Attacks

For Immediate Release June 6, 2025 Contact: Eric Grignol, [email protected] This past weekend’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and Trump’s subsequent deployment of the national guard hav...

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UU College of Social Justice @uucsj.bsky.social · Jun 9

"It is about dis-investing in desires for unrestricted autonomy, authority, certainty, control, protagonism, purity, popularity, superiority and validation to create space for acccountabilities, for response-abilities, for exiled capacities and for deeper intimacies" - #GTDF

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Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures

Visit the post for more.

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The Sanders Institute @sandersinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 9

The budget bill is anything but beautiful. @stephaniekelton.bsky.social

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · Jun 9

Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.

"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

A page from Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, the chapter called "Violence" in Social Movements, page 111. Under the heading "They Will Call You Violent" the text reads:

If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because violence is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, as long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to peaceful protest, they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

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