We at UUSS work with our Sacramento Area Congregations Together (Sac ACT) Environmental Justice Committee to identify and change conditions that create environmental racism and injustice. In July and August 2018 a workgroup from this committee is investigating the conditions that create environmental injustice in our own area of West Arden-Arcade. On May 8, 2018,
Did you know that on May 8, 2018 the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors formally designated West Arden-Arcade as an “environmental justice community”? Did you know that an environmental justice community is one with high percentages of people of color, low-income residents and/or immigrant communities that experience higher levels of environmental hazards and resulting health
You are invited to join our Sacramento ACT Environmental Justice Committee Member Rev. Dr. Mary Westfall at this important event. THE RIGHT TO HEALTH AND HEALTHY PLANET: Ecological Devastation and Healthcare. *RSVP HERE* WEEK 4 of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. We are creating a Radical Revolution of Values by undertaking
Stand with Sacramento ACT for environmental justice at our County Board of Supervisors’ meeting on Tuesday, May 8, at 2:00 p.m.! Theo Goodwin from Congregation B’nai Israel will be our spokesperson to the Board regarding its new Environmental Justice General Plan Amendment. We want a strong plan that will result in meaningful improvements to our
On Sunday, April 29, Sacramento ACT people of faith and local environmental justice activists gathered at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento (UUSS) to learn about environmental racism in Sacramento and how to organize to address it. We learned that environmental racism is about systematic overburdening of environmental hazards and deprivation of environmental resources in
This group of very caring people came together to present a workshop on addressing environmental racism in Sacramento. The audience of seventy people learned so much, and many were moved to work with these wonderful folks to bring justice to our brothers and sisters in low-income communities of color. It was a wonderful experience!
Our ACT Environmental Justice Committee working hard and having fun today at our research meeting about racism and environmental health equity in the Sacramento Region, with Katie Valenzuela, staff of CA Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies, Daniel Woo CADPH Climate Change and Health Equity, and Jackie Cole, community organizer. Attending from our ACT
