Director of Religious Education Colleen Hamilton will reflect on the activism of Autumn Peltier, who at age 12 represented the Wikwemkong in the Assembly of First Nations and confronted the Prime Minister of Canada about his his support for pipelines and failure to protect indigenous water rights. We will hear directly from Ms Peltier in a brief video and consider how we can … Continue reading Paying Attention to What Matters
In 1945, Toni Jackson, John Steinbeck’s editor, and a group of women activists protested Japanese American Incarceration and resisted racism in WW II California. Carolyn will speak about a documentary created by her team that examines how Monterey was one of the only communities that publicly welcomed their Japanese neighbors back from the incarceration centers … Continue reading Japanese American Incarceration – Enduring Democracy: The Monterey Petition
On the 70th Anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942, UUFS member Amy Mori shared her first-hand account of the Japanese internment that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. UUFS Member Margaret Lawson kept that speech, and in honor of the 84th anniversary of the order’s signing, we present it … Continue reading Executive Order 9066: In the Words of Amy Mori