Social Justice Committee
Members: Pearl Cohen, Sonia D’Alarcao, Susan Holton, Janet Dye, Frankie Finnegan, Betty Gilson, Mary Pendleton, Angela Sheble, Yasmeen Thompson, Rev. Rachel Tedesco.
SJC Recommended Links
- Brockton Interfaith – Brockton Interfaith Community (BIC)
- BSU Pride Center
- BSU Social Justice League
- Equal Exchange – delicious fairly traded, organic products!
- International Day of Peace – September 21, annually
- Raise Up Massachusetts – working to get earned sick time & a higher min wage on the ballot in 2014
- Side with Love – campaign promoting respect for the inherent worth and dignity of every person.
- UU Mass Action – We believe that our faith calls us to change the world.
- Unitarian Universalist Association – We are Unitarian Universalists. We are brave, curious, and compassionate thinkers and doers.
Continuing Actions
Helping the Hungry
Our Social Justice Committee collects non-perishable food items for the local food pantry. We invite you to help the hungry in our local area by bringing canned and packaged foods on the first Sunday of each month. A box is placed at the front of the sanctuary, near the piano, to receive the items, which the Social Justice Committee members gather and bring to our local food pantry.
Feeding the Homeless*
Our church volunteers provide lunches for MainSpring House shelter for the homeless in Brockton. We gather on the first Monday* of each month at 9 a.m. in the lower parish hall to prepare and wrap 100 bag lunches, which are then brought to the shelter by one or two of our volunteers. You can help in many ways, including joining us at the above gatherings, donating baked goods, other food items, and paper goods as needed, taking home some of the fixings and preparing parts of the lunches (such as tuna or egg salad) at home for the volunteers to assemble at the church, or simply donating money toward the cost of the lunches, which is about $100 per month for 100 lunches.
Please contact Betty Gilson for further information, or just drop by that morning to help. *The lunches are prepared on Mondays to be eaten on the first Tuesday of each month. If the first Tuesday falls on the first day of the month, the lunches are made on the final Monday of the previous month.
The UUSC Coffee Project
In the world, coffee is one of the most heavily traded commodities. Coffee links our communities to farming communities in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Our participation in this project helps small farmers earn a fair price for their products and have access to affordable credit. We buy and serve Equal Exchange (EE) Fairly Traded shade grown coffee during our social hour every Sunday. The Social Justice committee is also selling this gourmet organically grown coffee for your home or office use. If you would like to purchase some beans or other fairly trade EE items such as cocoa, tea or olive oil please contact Janet Dye (dyedye07@gmail.com ). More information can be found in the Parish Hall. Please support this effort and buy yourself some beans, tea or cocoa and a cup of justice!!!