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FIA - Presents Wage Theft and Ice in the Workplace with KIWA
Faith In Action will co-hosts this multi-ethnic community organizing event with KIWA (Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance).
Join us and invite your friends and co-workers to this important community event on workplace rights. It is also being supported by the City of Santa Monica. Learn:
• How to spot and protect oneself against wage theft
• What resources are available if and when wage theft is discovered
• The timeline and process to recover lost wages
• What ICE can and cannot do in a workplace
• How to protect oneself in the event of an ICE interaction
This interactive presentation will help us all to uphold the worth and dignity of working people. Contact: justice@uusm.org
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FIA - Screening "Without a Home" |
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FIA - Second Sunday Speaker In lieu of a film screening this Sunday Evening after Second Sunday Supper, we will welcome award-winning journalist David Dayen, who will be speaking about (and signing copies of) his new book, Chain of Title. This is a special treat!  “In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history—millions of families were kicked out of their homes based on false evidence by mortgage companies that had no legal right to foreclose.” More info about the book here:
David is a contributing writer to Salon, The New Republic, Vice, The Intercept, The Fiscal Times and others. Before that, he was a well-known political blogger at Firedoglake. Glenn Greenwald has said: "In the wake of the devastating 2008 financial crisis, David Dayen has become one of the nation’s most knowledgeable, astute and important voices in identifying the culprits and documenting the efforts to protect them. His new book is one of the most important yet written on the causes of that crisis, the abject failures of the political class to punish the wrongdoers, and the dangerous refusal on the part of the nation’s elite to safeguard against future and even worse meltdowns.”
Some may have met David and his wife, Mary, when they joined us at one of the CLUE demonstrations at Millennium Car Wash a couple of years ago. Join us this Sunday in the Sanctuary at 7:30PM as we welcome them to UUSM. Flyer attached below.
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FIA - Spirit of the Sixties: Then and Now On Saturday, March 3rd at 5PM, photojournalist and peace activist Francesco Da Vinci will offer a talk and multimedia presentation about his struggle as a Conscientious Objector during the Vietnam War, hosted by the Peace & Social Justice Committee. He is currently producing a documentary film about his story, the lessons of the 1960s and how they can be applied to today’s divided America. Discussion will follow the presentation. |
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FIA - Town Hall
Following the election, many congregants have expressed a desire to act for social justice, peace, and civil liberties. At this meeting you can find out what we have been doing and participate in planning what we will do. Contact James Witker for more information.
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FIA - Town Hall Meeting |
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FIA - Video: Interviews with People Who Have Had Interactions with SMPD
Following Second Sunday Supper; Forbes Hall. Contact Peggy Rhoads for more information, or see this month's newsletter.
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FIA - Who Is "We": Europe and Refugees Please join us for an afternoon with Louis Durra, the UUSM organist from 2001 to 2011.
UUSM’s former accompanist Louis Durra returns to report on the many-sided European dialogue on migration and his own experiences in a refugee camp in France.
"People are not neutral when talking or writing about refuge-seekers in Europe. They’re engaged, full of feelings.”
Louis has been traveling as a musician, and among other things,has spent time in Europe talking and working with refugees.
Louis has twice volunteered to work in Sudani refugee camps in France along the English channel and has also spent a lot of time in Berlin, Germany working and taking with refugees from Syria and Iraq. Louis will appear to discuss the lives of refugees and immigrants after their arrival in Europe, please join us for this important discussion. Contact: James Witker, jwitker@mac.com.
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FIA / Green Living Film Series - screening of "The Wisdom to Survive"
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FIA / PSJ - Film Screening "Voices Across the Divide" “Voices Across the Divide” is a documentary and oral history project made by Alice Rothchild and Sharon Mullaly. It explores exploring the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through rarely heard personal stories by Palestinians (and their children) who were expelled from their homeland when Israel was declared a state by the U.N. in 1947-48 and after the war of 1966-67. |
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FIA and Music - Presenting Roy Zimmerman: ReZist!
We’re excited to welcome world-famous singer/songwriter/satirist Roy Zimmerman back to UU Santa Monica! Roy's shows are always a great time -- full of humor, heart, and inspiration for everyone who cares about peace, justice and progressive values in difficult times.
Roy’s songs have been heard on HBO and Showtime, and his videos have garnered tens of millions of views. He has recorded for Warner/Reprise Records. He's shared stages with Bill Maher, Ellen DeGeneres, Holly Near, Robin Williams, Arlo Guthrie, John Oliver, Kate Clinton and George Carlin, and tours the country constantly with his wife and co-writer Melanie Harby.
Roy will play both services on Sunday, Feb. 11th and stay to perform a full show that evening, immediately following Second Sunday Supper. The evening is being co-sponsored by Faith In Action and the Music Committee with support from Rev. Greg.
“ReZist” is ninety minutes of Roy’s original songs, a funny and forceful affirmation of peace and social Justice. “Sometimes I think satire is the most hopeful and heartfelt form of expression,” says Roy, “because in calling out the world's absurdities and laughing in their face, I'm affirming the real possibility for change.”
This is a great event to invite friends and allies to!
Parking will be available at the UCLA Structure located at 1311 16th Street.
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