Month: September 2015

Lessons From NOLA

September 30, 2015 | Deva Jones | Racial Justice

This post was written by Annie Hanley-Miller and originally posted on Blue Boat. Building Community Overcomes Difference by Annie Hanley–Miller I brought back many things to my home community from my experience at Activate NOLA. It was an intense week and I learned a lot about race, poverty, Hurricane Katrina, and global warming. I also learned a […]

Reflections in Shade of the US-Mexico Border Wall

September 28, 2015 | Deva Jones | Immigration, Youth

This post was written by Jack Spector-Bishop and originally posted on Blue Boat. “What do you do when you come head to head with the very evil you are working against?” “The ants crawl under it, the birds fly around it, the sky connects over it.” This is what I wrote in my journal while I sat […]

Whiteness and Apocalypse

September 25, 2015 | Deva Jones | Environmental Justice, GROW, Young Adult

This post was written by Amelia Diehl and originally posted on Blue Boat. I am so grateful to have been able to attend the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice‘s Grounded and Resilient Organizer’s Workshop Climate Justice Training in Chicago, IL and feel connected again to a community and to a movement. I think I might have learned more about […]