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Hundreds of people gathered in Des Moines for the Freedom to Believe Rally to push back against discrimination and hate after hate filled letters and anti-Semitic voicemails were left at Islamic centers and a synagogue across the area. These come just weeks after local Black churches received bomb threats and law makers were targeted with hate speech and death threats.
"We're going to have to use our voices, our education and our reasoning skills if we're going to reclaim this state..."
Interfaith Alliance
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"Legal and legislative efforts to address hate-based violence are key tools to keep us safe. But equally essential are grassroots efforts that confront bias and bigotry on a local level. Religious congregations and faith groups are uniquely positioned to push back against hateful rhetoric by providing an alternative message of love and inclusion. In accordance with our most sacred values, each one of us has an obligation to act to protect our friends and neighbors."
Thank you Interfaith Alliance for creating the "Partnering Against Hate Toolkit."
https://www.interfaithalliance.org/partnering-against-hate/
Explore the guide and sign up for our program "Keeping Religious Communities Safe," happening virtually this Thursday in collaboration with Central Reform Congregation. Register at:
https://interfaithstl.org/safety2022/
Hope is a thing with...movement. Let's grasp this chance, this moment, to choose how, when, and where we act on our hope. We also invite you to find strength in the good news and in expressing gratitude. If you have only ten minutes, we welcome you to take our top three actions:
Action 1: Keep election administration in your state from being usurped.
Action 3: Help eligible incarcerated people vote.
Action 5: Demand protections for child farmworkers.
VOICE OF A COMMON GOODER
THE COMMON GOOD LEAGUE PHILOSOPHY
The Common Good League is not a formal organization or movement (at least not as-yet), but an idea.
The cornerstone on which the foundation of this idea is built, is a philosophical premise which has served this nation well for most of its existence. It is the philosophical premise that: the United States was not meant to be a purely capitalistic, nor purely theocratic society, but to be a reasonable, compromised balance somewhere in between these two extremes.
-Nor was meant, as-been seen within the last twenty years or so, in becoming an unholy hybrid combination of some of the worst excesses, abuses, and extremes of both capitalism and theocracy.
As such, we the American people in righteous purpose, and in both secular and spiritual justice-loving intent in and against,
the excesses, abuses, and extremes of both capitalism and religious theocracy.
and in and against, what threatens are Democracy and way of life,
-That of those forces of Plutocracy, and religious-sectarian subversion and coercion,
and the use of the engine of government to aid, abet, and force, coerce, and impose them as such on American society.
We the American people shall challenge,
and we shall confront,
and we shall overcome these domestic threats from within,
To protect and preserve our Nation and society.
SO SAY WE ALL!
SO SAY WE ALL!
(May 22, 2018)
VOICE OF A COMMON GOODER
The Klein Case in New York in 1989, was the "smoking gun"
The Klein Case in New York in 1989, was the "smoking gun" that revealed Anti Choicer’s intend to prevent abortion, -EVEN WHEN A WOMAN'S LIFE IS MEDICALLY ENDANGERED!
-So these "Pro-lifers" FOOL NO ONE! So, like the Water Protectors at Standing Rock, PRO-CHOICE PEOPLE MUST STAND FIRM GROUND
SO SAY WE ALL!
(May 17, 2019)
A great Hanukkah message about religious freedom in America by the president of Interfaith Alliance.
Only 48 short weeks until the midterm elections. It’s important that we support the opportunity to vote for every eligible voter and that we actively encourage those votes. Be a part of the movement. Speak up for democracy and justice with the Americans of Conscience Checklist. Even with only a few minutes you can do one or all of our top 3 actions on the current list: and you can find them and more here:
Action 1: Protect election workers from violent threats.
https://americansofconscience.com/12-03-2021/#action1
Contact your senators: Help millions of workers and immigrating people while creating jobs and fighting climate change by passing the Build Back Better Act
https://americansofconscience.com/12-03-2021/... .
Action 4: Advocate with Black aspiring Americans for civil and human rights.
https://americansofconscience.com/12-03-2021/#action4
On December 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments surrounding Mississippi's blatantly unconstitutional 15-week ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Equal access to abortion care — everywhere — is essential for social and economic equality, reproductive autonomy, and the right to determine our own lives.
CCAR is proud to join the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Catholics for Choice, Interfaith Alliance, Muslim Advocates, and more faith-based organizations that know that #AbortionIsEssential!
Join us in D.C. on Wednesday, December 1 for an Interfaith Gathering for Abortion Access. The event will open with a faith-rooted expression of support for abortion access, honoring the dignity and worth of every person who seeks an abortion, and calling upon the Court to uphold this fundamental right.
• RSVP at
https://ccar.co/abortionisessential
We need your voice now to have November 2022 midterms accurately reflect our nation's collective voice. Open the Americans of Conscience Checklist for well-researched, non-partisan actions. Our top ask this week is to contact your senators to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (S. 4) to protect the voting rights of all Americans.
Our Executive Director Rev. Fletcher Harper joined Rev. Welton Gaddy on Interfaith Alliance's State Of Belief to discuss GreenFaith at #COP26.