Peace+&+Justice+History


 * Peace & Justice History:**

UUA links:

Unitarian Universalist //Association// LINKS: For information about Unitarian Universalist Association activities: **Standing On the SIde of Love:** @http://www.uua.org/socialjustice/issues/immigration/reform/169764.shtml and @http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/ **Commission on Social Witness**:  @http://www.uua.org/aboutus/governance/electedcommittees/socialwitness/index.shtml

=**UU Social Justice //Affiliate// Groups ** LINKS: = Extensive list on this page:  @http://www.uua.org/socialjustice/103543.shtml including: Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community: @http://www.uujec.org/

Local Community Groups:


 * The whole church is a member of these groups: **

The Interfaith Council for Social Service;

In July 2009, The Board of the Community Church of Chapel Hill, Unitarian Universalist voted to become a founding member of the Orange Country Organizing Committee, now called **Justice United.**

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**The Peace and Justice //Committee// is a member of these local Coalitions:**
 * Orange County Peace Coalition (OCPC) Meets at Chapel Hill Friends Meeting.
 * **Orange County Assembly** of the Historic Thousands on Jones Street ( HKonJ OC) For more information: click here.
 * Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER)


 * Today, RENA-CEER includes neighborhood residents, ** residents of greater Orange County, staff and students from UNC, community faith-based organizations, and other groups and individuals who want to work toward building healthy communities. ** ** The Rogers-Eubanks Neighborhood Association (RENA) New Website: ** **

**Community Group supported by the Peace and Justice Committee which meets regularly at the Church:**
 * Balance and Accuracy in Journalism (BAJ) Meets 2nd Wednesday at 7:30 pm at the Community Church

**Community Groups which have sometimes met at the Church:** RETURN TO MAIN PEACE AND JUSTICE PAGE Past //Events://
 * Coalition for Peace with Justice
 * Carolina Interfaith Task Force on Central America (CITCA).
 * Witness for Peace

**2011 January - MLK, Jr Day**

= **Available: Dr. Ben Chavis speech at First Baptist Church on MLK Day** =

__@http://vimeo.com/18893629 __


 * 2010 November**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">**﻿Share-The-Plate Offering for November 7:** Gifts go to two local groups addressing peace and justice in the Middle East: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Coalition for Peace with Justice(<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">www.peace-with-justice.org ) and Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions-USA (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">www.icahdusa.org/ ). Both groups have an office in Durham and have members working actively in the Triangle, offering cultural and exchange programs, opportunities for dialogue, and ways to work for a just peace in Israel/Palestine.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">September 2010 **

WHERE WILL YOU BE WHEN THEY BURN THE QURAN? //**for audio and photos go to:** http://c3h.wikispaces.com/9-11-2010+Memorial+P%26J//
 * “Standing on the Side of Love” Vigil, Saturday, September 11 6:00 - 7:00p.m. Peace & Justice Plaza, Chapel Hill**

BACKGROUND

A couple of weeks ago, the Standing on the Side of Love✷ campaign urged President Obama to take a stronger stand for religious freedom. Last week, a coalition of faith groups echoed this message when they met with the Justice Department to encourage the Obama administration to take a more public stance against anti-Muslim hate speech and hate crimes.

Unfortunately, anti-Muslim hate speech and hate crimes continue to spread. In the past couple of weeks alone: • A man was arrested for shouting anti-Muslim slurs as he urinated outside a mosque in the Astoria section of Queens. • A 21-year-old college student is accused of repeatedly stabbing a Manhattan taxi driver after asking if the driver is Muslim. • Fire was set to a planned mosque and Islamic Center in a Memphis, Tennessee suburb.

As has been widely reported in national and world media, the Dove World Outreach Center and Church in Gainesville, FL plans to “burn the Koran [on September 11th, 2010, from 6pm - 9pm] on the property of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, FL in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam. Islam is of the devil!”

THE CALL The Community Church of Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist asks you to stand with us in support of our Muslim brothers and sisters at an inter-faith “Standing on the Side of Love” service on Saturday evening, September 11th from 6:00 to 7:00pm. The vigil will take place at the Peace & Justice Plaza (Old Post Office) on Franklin Street at Henderson Street, Chapel Hill. Local clergy and other people of faith and goodwill are being asked to participate in reading from the Quran, other sacred texts and prophetic writings. Bring a sign! Bring yourself to... Stand on the Side of Love... in support of religious freedom for all as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Labor Day Service: = <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Sunday, Sept 5, 2010,** One Service at <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10:30 AM

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Guest MInister: Rev. Nelson Johnson -"Faith and Worker Justice"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Rev. Nelson Johnson, director of the Beloved Community Center and Senior Pastor at Faith Community Church in Greensboro, and a lifelong activist for social and economic justice, will give the annual Labor Day sermon.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Rev. Nelson Johnson is the director of the Beloved Community Center and Senior Pastor at Faith Community Church in Greensboro, NC. He is Vice-President of the Greensboro Pulpit Forum that was instrumental in the Greensboro K-Mart worker struggle. A lifelong activist for social and economic justice, Rev. Johnson centers his efforts on facilitating a process of comprehensive community building, which includes a convergence of racial and ethnic diversity, social and economic justice, and genuine participatory democracy. At the BCC, he and his colleagues attempt to bring together the homeless, the imprisoned, impoverished neighborhoods, and other disenfranchised groups in the spirit of mutual support and community.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **Share-The-Plate Offering for Sept 5**: Gifts go to two groups addressing justice for workers: the National Farm Worker Ministry and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee AFL-CIO (FLOC). With an office in Durham at Eno River UU Fellowship, the Ministry is an interfaith organization supporting farm workers as they organize for justice and empowerment in the fields. FLOC is both a social movement and a labor union whose immediate constituency is migrant workers in the agricultural industry. Both groups are working together on the continuing Campaign for Justice for Tobacco Workers. More info: Church newsletter, Peace and Justice Committee's table and bulletin board in the Commons.

May / June 2010


 * Share-The-Plate Offering June 20: ** Gifts go to two groups addressing justice for prisoners: People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, an interfaith, nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization that educates and mobilizes faith communities to work to abolish the death penalty in the US; and North Carolina Stop Torture Now, a grassroots coalition of individuals representing themslves and a diversity of faith, human rights, peace, veteran, and student groups across the state working to stop torture everywhere. Stop by the Peace and Justice Table to obtain detailed information about these organizations. www.pfadp.org and www.ncstoptorturenow.org/.

June 2, 2010 - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Memorial service for Ashley Osment //News articles:// //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-style: normal;">[] //
 * May 28, 2010 - Ashley Osment dies **

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<span style="background-color: #fbfbac; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $ 1,415.00 was raised for the TED Guild VIllage Bank of the UU Church of the Philippines.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;"> On May 23, 2010, P&J supported a Share the Plate Collection for //Ted Guild Village Bank of UU Church of Philippines// **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">UU church of the Philippines: []Enter Ted Guild Village Bank in the search box.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Partner Church Council: [|http://www.uupcc.org] Select from the “Where We Are” menu to learn about our partnerships in the Philippines or other places.

March 2010


 * On March 28, 2010, Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, $1,266.82 was raised for The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. **

February 2010 Church members honored!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Samuel B. Obie Community Service and Javier Benitez Outstanding Pastoral Service Awards: Chatham County Human Relations Commission honors non-Chatham County residents with a record of achievement in promoting human and civil rights and/or improving human relations in Chatham County (including members of Community Church and Orange County participants helping Moncure strikers) and **Patricia B. Learned** for a record of contributions through pastoral care and action.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Jan 2010


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Sunday, Jan 10, 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr, Memorial service. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our guest speaker <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">was Rosalyn Woodward Pelles , Director of the Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department at the national AFL-CIO. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">[|RENA/CEER] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">was the recipient of the Share the Plate Collection at that service.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> December 2009

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> The Orange County Commissioners voted 6-1 in favor of temporarily (3-5 years) sending our county's trash to the Durham transfer station until Orange County figures out a better solution to its trash issues. The resolution includes a statement that takes the Rogers-Eubanks Community (including Millhouse) off the table permanently in any future transfer station searches. See: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 25px;">[|Orange solid waste to be trucked to Durham] and <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 30px;">[|Waste transfer station headed out of the county]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Dec 7, 2009: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> November 2009:


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On Sun, Nov 8, there was a Celebration of Life of <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;">[|Yonni Chapman] **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> : Historian Yonni Chapman initiated the recognition of black and white individuals, as well as the Community Church, in the struggle for civil rights in Chapel HIll.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> October 2009

<span style="background-color: #f3f5b3; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">**Oct 26, 2009 [|Founding Assembly for OC JUSTICE UNITED:]** Click on link for N&O article.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For more information about Orange County Justice United, including how to participate with the Community Church Team go to : http://c3h.wikispaces.com/OC+Justice+United+in+Community+Effort

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September 2009


 * Sept 20, 2009**


 * [|The Town of Chapel Hil] l and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP honored nine community activists, with a public unveiling of a tribute marker at Peace and Justice Plaza on Sunday Sept 20, 2009**. Those honored were Charlotte Adams, Hank Anderson, James Brittian, Joe Herzenberg, Mildred Ringwalt, Hubert Robinson, **Joe Straley, Lucy Straley**, and Gloria Williams.

P+J was honored to to have [|Baldemar Velasquez] as our Annual Labor Day Worship Service Speaker. Baldemar Velázquez is president of the [|Farm Labor Organizing Committee], [|AFL-CIO], an organization he founded in 1967 in Toledo, Ohio.
 * Sept 6, 2009, Annual Labor Day Worship Service**

Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation, a total of $1,618.00 was raised at this service. It will be divided between The National Farm Worker Ministry and The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, (FLOC) for their joint work on The New Campaign for Justice for Tobacco Workers.

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[|Celebrate Our Peace and Justice Legacy, Aug 28, 2009,] <---Click on link to see video by <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 18px;">[|John K. Chapman] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rally sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP and the Town of Chapel Hill to honor nine local peace and justice leaders on the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. First of two programs dedicating Peace and Justice Plaza (Old Post Office) as an ongoing commemoration site for local peace and justice leaders. The official unveiling of the granite commemorative marker will be 3pm, Sunday, September 20, 2009. The honorees are Charlotte Adams, Hank Anderson, James Brittian, Joe Herzenberg, Mildred Ringwalt, Hubert Robinson, Joe Straley, Lucy Straley, and Gloria Williams. The quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. reads "True peace is not merely the absence of some negative force; it is the presence of justice."

July 2009


 * In July 2009, The Board of the Community Church of Chapel Hill, Unitarian Universalist voted to become a founding member of the Orange Country Organizing Committee.**

Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $752.00 was raised and will be shared between Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC) and Balance and Accuracy in Journalism (BAJ).
 * July 12, 2009: Share the Plate:**

May 2009

Thanks to the generosity of the congregation, $1, 032.00 was raised for the work of NC STOP Torture Now and People of Faith Against the Death Penalty and will be divided between these two organizations.
 * May 31, 2009: Share the Plate:**

April 2009

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;">[|Strike ends amid economic uncertainty] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Clink on blue link to go the article at N&O.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **" The striking workers at Moncure Plywood agreed Monday night to a new three-year contrac**t with the company, winning many of the concessions they had sought, including shorter workweeks, lower health insurance premiums and seniority rights."

February 2009

Thanks to the generosity of of the congregation $1120.27 was raised for supporting the work of Quaker House and The Orange County Peace Coalition. (90% to Quaker House. 10% to OCPC.)
 * February 22, 2209 Share the Plate**


 * Sat, Feb 28, 2009: Commemoration of Freedom Riders in Chapel Hill:** Remembering the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation by unveiling permanent state highway marker at North Columbia and Rosemary Streets. Sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP and The Community Church of Chapel Hill, Unitarian Universalist. Endorsed and funded by the Town of Chapel Hill. Organized and planned by John K. Chapman, Historian. To see an article on the event, [|CLICK HERE.]

To see a video of Rev. Barber in front of the legislative building at: []
 * Historic Thousands on Jones Street (HK on J) - Feb. 14, 2009**

January 2009

Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Worship Service - January 11, 2008.
 * To hear the sermon by Tim Tyson, go to the Audio files list on the __From the Sanctuary__ page of this site.**

Jan 11, 2009, Share the Plate** Thanks to all who contributed to our Jan 11 Share the Plate Collection. $3900 was raised. $1000 went to buses to the HKonJ event (see above) and $2900 went to the striking workers of Machinist Local Lodge W369 (see below).

Machinist Local Lodge W369 workers were striking for restoration of medical benefits, return to 40-hour work week, and recognition of seniority. Peace and Justice Committee members joined a Rally in Support of Moncure Plywood LLC Strikers Sat, Dec 20, in front of the Traffic Circle in front of the Pittsboro Courthouse.

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