Bridgewater Senior Center, 10 Wally Krueger Way To reserve a space, call 508-697-0929 or email https://www.Bridgewaterma.org/157/Elder-Affairs This event meets monthly on the first Thursday. Co-sponsored by OCES and the Senior Center
The final session of Rooted in Nature will be Climate Change from the Indigenous Perspective With Leslie Jonas, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and vice-chair of the Native Land Conservancy. Friday, November 3, 2023, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Register Now Questions? Contact Lindsay Randall at lrandall@mapc.org.
If you are interested in standing with us but would like the training first, please add your name, but put an X in the first column. All are invited to join in. Sign up for training and/or the vigil by visiting Vigil Sign-Ups.
Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt discuss their recent book and offer a coherent framework for understanding these volatile times. They posit that we are at a crossroads: America will either become a multiracial democracy or cease to be a democracy. Sponsored by First Parish Concord and Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice. A hybrid event on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, 4:00 pmLive at First Parish Concord and live-streamed on Zoom Click here to register for the Zoom event
The Team brings news and information to the congregation about social justice events and activities being held in our community, offers training and runs events that are of major interest to church members, and actively supports several local organizations including Bridgewater Committee for Civil Rights (BCCR). The Brockton Chapter of the NAACP, the Matthew Mission Food Pantry, and Sustainable Middleboro. The Social Justice Team meets every other Friday.
If you are interested in standing with us but would like the training first, please add your name, but put an X in the first column. All are invited to join in. Sign up for training and/or the vigil by visiting Vigil Sign-Ups.
UUMassAction has launched an Immigration Justice Campaign. The UUMA Immigrant Justice Team meets monthly. You need not attend all meetings. Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023 and all 2nd Tuesdays, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. RSVP HERE
UUMassAction has launched an Immigration Justice Campaign. The UUMA Immigrant Justice Team meets monthly. You need not attend all meetings. Join UUs across MA to work towards immigration justice. RSVP HERE
The 4th live event in the Partnership of Historic Bostons' series on New England Indigenous history will be streamed on Zoom. This evening is on the Stolen Relations project which is putting together names and stories of thousands of the estimated 2.5 - 5 million Native Americans enslaved in the Americas from 1492 to 1900, in every European colony. This is a shocking number even compared to the approximately 10.5 -12 million Africans who were brought as slaves from Africa during this same period. Click here for more information Alexis Moreis, pictured, historic preservation officer of the Wampanoag Tribe of
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An annual tradition since 1970, the National Day of Mourning is a solemn, spiritual and highly political day by United American Indians of New England held on the day many in the United States celebrate Thanksgiving. Mythology surrounding Thanksgiving is deeply rooted in settler colonialism, antithetical to Indigenous Justice. Cole's Hill 38 Middle Street, Plymouth (above Plymouth Rock
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"Afford them no shelter"--Cotton Mather re enslaved Christians who had escaped. Historian Richard Boles offers a nuanced exploration of the role of Puritan theology in New England slavery, and the way that enslaved Black and indigenous people shaped the society around them. This is the fourth in Partnership of Historic Bostons' lecture series, Enslavement & Resistance: New England 1620-1760. sign up now! The next online session will be Wednesday, Dec. 6. More info to come. For more information go to https://historicbostons.org/
The Team brings news and information to the congregation about social justice events and activities being held in our community, offers training and runs events that are of major interest to church members, and actively supports several local organizations including Bridgewater Committee for Civil Rights (BCCR). The Brockton Chapter of the NAACP, the Matthew Mission Food Pantry, and Sustainable Middleboro. The Social Justice Team meets every other Friday.
If you are interested in standing with us but would like the training first, please add your name, but put an X in the first column. All are invited to join in. Sign up for training and/or the vigil by visiting Vigil Sign-Ups.
Note: The church calendar contains some events that are not open to everyone, so that we can plan for building use. Open events are shown on the home page. Click on an event to show the full description.
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Middleboro MA 02346
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