We seriously do not want medicine reduced to “thoughts and prayers”, so please plan in advance to see what is still offered, what is not, and how to cope.
Category: Cal Churches News
This ruling is not simply a matter of policy; it grants license for racial profiling. It sanctifies discrimination. It weaponizes our God-given Imago Deias a tool for exclusion and erasure.
The terms and conditions for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program now require recipients and subrecipients of the funding, among other things:
to cooperate with immigration officials,
not engage in or promote programs that engage in DEI, DEIA, or ‘discriminatory equity ideology’ within the meaning of the Executive Order, in violation of anti-discrimination laws, and
not participate in discriminatory prohibited boycotts relating to Israel.
We ask you to be as engaged in fighting for our immigrant communities as best as you are able. Nothing calls injustice to account better than your presence. Please do all you can, as long as you can, howsoever you can.
Keep to your advocacy. That’s about political issues of great importance. But please also keep to your humanity for your brothers and sisters and neighbors within our common traditions who are facing unprecedented hardships and fear.
“. . . it’s important to note increasing speculation and discussion among informed advocates about the chance that President Trump could soon seek to invoke the powers of the Insurrection Act of 1807, which would be a major step towards the militarization of our country and a consolidation of power towards authoritarianism.“
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Dear Friends: We have long admired civil rights leaders for their willingness to speak against unjust laws. We have admired those who hid Jews from … Read More ›
Dear Justice Seekers, Tuesday, January 21, Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde of the National Cathedral in Washington DC led the Inaugural Service for incoming president, Donald … Read More ›