Social Justice News

20 September 2016
Film Screening Oct. 21st
-submitted by Babara Taylor
 
Have you read in newspaper that US just signed a deal to give Israel 3.8 billion a year, which is up from the 3.1 billion we used to give? Do you ever wonder why Israel receives so much military aid? Israel is number 1 on our list of aid, 4 times higher than number 2 on the list- Egypt. All the other countries in Africa that are facing civil war and starvation are bundled into a tiny bucket of aid. Is our aid going into the right place?
 
Come see a free movie in Eliot Hall, Friday night, Oct 21, 7 pm sponsored by the Unitarian Social Justice Ministry and Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land. "Budrus" is the true story of a father and daughter who together fight and inspire their village to stand up to the Israeli Army, known as IDF. Join the conversation after the showing and learn more about the Middle East.
 

Anti-Racism Committee Class
-submitted by Catherine Parnell


White Privilege, White Shame, Black Pain is an eight-week course that will help students understand race as an emotional experience that has been perpetuated by historical and contemporary attempts to consolidate rather than share power. As a group we will aim to reveal the ways in which racism harms both people of color and white people, and we will strive to imagine the ways in which we can dismantle these racial barriers by looking inward at our privilege and personal experience, and outward at our relationships and institutions. The class will meet at the church from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays, from September 29th through November 17th. We will read two books, Learning to be White and The New Jim Crow, which must be purchased by the start of the class. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/SLCUU-WhitePrivilegeWorkshop