127: Black Lives of UU
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Carlton Smith, Lena Gardner, and Leslie Butler MacFadyen meet with the VUU regulars to talk about the Movement for Black Lives and UU. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired January 21, 2016.
124: On Showing Up and Support: Black Lives of UU
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Leslie MacFadyen, Kenny Wiley and Lena Gardner talk with The VUU team about showing up and supporting. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired December 17, 2015. The VUU will be taking a break for the holidays and will return on January 7, 2016.
I Had To Answer Love’s Call – Will You Answer It With Me?
It’s been two weeks since Jamar Clark, an unarmed black man, was shot in the head by the Minneapolis police. Multiple witnesses say he was handcuffed at the time of the shooting. When I first heard of this shooting, it was in a tweet from a prominent civil rights lawyer in Minneapolis, Jason Sole: “This might be the bullet that turns Minneapolis into Ferguson.”
A Black Lives Matter Sermon
This sermon was delivered at the Michael Servetus Unitarian Society in Fridley, Minn. on Sunday morning, the 15th of November 2015, as Jamar Clark lay in hospital fighting for his life, shot by Minneapolis police. It was written in the wake of the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, France; in Beirut, Lebanon; and Baghdad, Iraq. We share it with you the day after Lena spent most of the night at the camp at the 4th Precinct in Minneapolis dealing with the aftermath of a terrorist attack launched by white supremacists on the people participating in the occupation and calling for justice in the shooting death of Jamar Clark.
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URGENT: Release Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana and other Unitarians Suffering Persecution in Burundi
We stand with Unitarian Universalists across the globe calling for the immediate release of the Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Burundi.
“On November 16th, the minister of the church, the Rev. Fulgence Ndagijimana, was arrested from the church at gunpoint, taken into police custody and interrogated severely, regarding the activities of his church. He was threatened with physical harm and death. At the moment he remains in custody, with other members of the church also being questioned.”
—International Council of Unitarian Universalists (ICUU)
Lena K. Gardner Recognized for Outstanding Community Organizing
“Lena Gardner is the development director of a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, the Church of the Larger Fellowship, faith without walls!” If I’d been wearing something with buttons, they might have popped off from my pride as I heard those words, spoken from the stage to a room packed with glamorously dressed people last night at a gala for OutFront Minnesota. Read more →
120: Black Lives of UU
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Leslie MacFadyen and Lena Gardener meet with The VUU team to talk about self-care, the situation in Minneapolis, and a Year Without Tamir. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired November 19, 2015.
The Revolution will be Broadcast by You [VIDEO]
Tonight, as I watch the live feeds of events unfolding at the #4thPrecinctShutDown, I am feeling so much gratitude for all the organizers and ordinary people putting themselves in harm’s way as they collectively call for #Justice4Jamar in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read more →
112: Seven Principles for Black Lives
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Carlton Smith and Leslie Butler MacFadyen join The VUU for a conversation about UUs and the Black Lives Matter movement. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley and Joanna Fontaine Crawford and airs on Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode originally aired on September 24, 2015.
