Hello friends and thanks again for participating in our Social Action priorities’ setting meeting last November.
The Social Action Coordinating Committee invites you to attend meetings on the fourth Monday in order to get better connected and begin planning actions and activities around the issues you are most passionate about. We normally have a simple potluck at 6pm and then our meeting at 6:30pm.
Other meetings you are invited to are the Lift Up Your Voice Steering committee on the fourth Wednesday at 12:30pm in the conference room. We plan things like the Homeless Persons Memorial Service, Take a Hungry Person to Lunch, and advocating for local government to set policies that make it easier for our service providers to get people out of homelessness.
Our environmental action group, 7PEAT (7th Principle Environmental Action Team), meets on the first Sunday 11:45 pm in the conference room.
I saw lots of UUCV members at the Ventura County Reproductive Rights Network’s annual Roe V. Wade program at Temple Beth Torah.
I know many of you voted for Women’s Rights and Women’s issues as an area you would like to work on. SACC has been supportive of this group and Planned Parenthood, but certainly an Action Group in this area could do much more. Along with women’s rights, many of you also mentioned human rights in general, immigrant rights in particular, and racial justice as areas of interest for you.
With only a half dozen or fewer active SACC members we really need more direct participation just to keep up with what we are already doing, much less adding more areas to our work.
Please consider adding your voice by joining SACC. If you are unavailable to come to SACC meetings but would like to take the lead on a particular issue, contact the chair Lety Ball (ball.edith@ gmail) or another SACC member.
by Kent Brinkmeyer
805-644-3898
administrator@uuventura.org
