JULY EPAG EVENTS
Sunday, July 13, 11:15 pm – Monthly EPAG meeting in the Library. We have two featured speakers: Mary Jane Vujovic, director of Human Services for Snohomish County, and Van Dinh Kuno, executive director of Refugee and Immigrant Services NW, discussing implications from the recently passed Big Bad Bill.
Thursday, July, 17 - GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON – Next National day of protest on the anniversary of the passing of Civil Rights Legend John Lewis, to respond to the attacks on our civil and human rights by the administration. Local options have changed. Stay tuned.
Wednesday, July 23, 6:30-7:30 pm – Building our Resilience Part 2 with Amber Saldivar. Once again Amber will share with us practices to help us stay calm and centered while keeping up with our acts of resistance! In the Library.
EPAG – Join us for a rally at the NW Detention Center
Saturday, July 26, 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Solidarity Rally at the NW ICE Detention Center in Tacoma
Organized by La Resistencia in Tacoma, a group of people fighting against immigrant detention and deportation. “Show up and support those who are detained at Northwest Detention Center, show that they are not alone! We will fight to shut down NWDC and Free Them ALL!”
We will go to witness and to learn what goes on at the Detention Center. The recently passed federal budget adds billions of dollars to ICE funding. We expect to see a significant uptick in masked abductions, detentions, and deportations. Bring protest signs.
Depart the church at noon. We will carpool or take the church van if we can find a driver.
RSVP to Diana at diana.nielsen@comcast.net. Let me know if you can drive and how many you can take.
Next big national protest
We will gather will South Snohomish Co. Indivisible on Thursday, July 17 4:30-6:30 pm for sign waving at the corner of Aurora (Hwy 99) and 196th. There is plenty of parking at all four sides of the corner.
The EUMC Political Action Group (EPAG) is a gathering of nearly 90 church members and friends who are actively standing up for our Democracy. Members of this group participate at weekly protests, large national protests, gather to write postcards, speak up at Town Halls, and make calls to our Senators and Representatives, and to the White House. We also provide community and support to each other as we suffer from grief, anger, trauma, and confusion. We stand together in faith for our Christian and Methodist values because courage is contagious!
We have meetings planned about once a month. Next meeting is Sunday, July 13, 11:15 am
Leaders: Diana Nielsen, Nora Carlson, Mary Sherhart
Interested in joining us? We’d love to have you. Send an email to diana.nielsen@comcast.net
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BANNED BOOK DRIVE is Now Completed
The Legacy Project: Preserving Black History and Culture
In partnership with the Pacific Northwest Conference Women's Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (which includes Seattle First AME, our sister church.)
The Pacific Northwest Conference Women's Missionary Society has invited us to participate in an urgent action to collect and preserve Black history and culture books banned by the current administration and slated for removal from public and school libraries.
This invitation comes from Denise Williams, member of FAME and president of the Pacific Northwest Conference Women's Missionary Society, and our Director of Church Operations at EUMC:
"With the increased efforts to ban books that correctly convey our history and culture, the PNWC Women’s Missionary Society and Women in Ministry of the 5th Episcopal District, of the AME Church have joined efforts to ensure that each church within the District has the ability and resources to create a library or supplement an already established one.”
We are partnering with Mahogany Books, a Black owned bookstore selected by FAME, to purchase copies of Banned Books or books from the Black History section listed on their website for purchase. Use the code EDMONDS (all caps) for a 10% discount until June 30. Purchases over $80 receive free shipping. Used books are welcome too.
Just imagine what it would feel like to see your personal history wiped out in libraries, in classrooms, colleges, museums, historical sites, and cemeteries? Not just once—but repeatedly.
This must be seen for what it is—cultural and historical annihilation from the highest office in our country.
Seattle First African Methodist Episcopal Church - www.fameseattle.org
Thank you to everyone who donated books for the Legacy Project. We received over 110 books and we look forward to delivering the books in early September.
Books will remain in the Wesley room for a few more weeks, so if your back ordered books haven’t arrived you can still add them to the shelf.
