Skill Up Recording and Resources: Community Safety and Security
January 2024 Skill Up
Unitarian Universalists are called to grapple with the question of “what is safety?” Black liberation organizers say “We Keep Us Safe" as a way to proclaim that true safety comes from relationship, community and structures of care and mutuality outside of state structures of violence and control. How do we build our political and theological commitment to keeping each other safe in the face of state and interpersonal violence?
In this skill up, Nora Rasman and India Harris define safety and security grounded in abolitionist practice, discuss our spiritual mandate towards building sanctuary, and concretely outline what we can honestly offer to ourselves and each other. View the webinar below, or on Vimeo.
View the slides
Spiritual Grounding (video) from Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen
Resources Referenced
Get In Formation - Community Safety Resource from Vision Change Win https://visionchangewin.org/services-and-programs/community-safety/
Defund Fear: Justice Activist Common Read Curriculum
One Million Experiments, including episode #5 (decriminalization) with Signe Victoria Harriday
Side With Love slack community: Community Safety and Security Channel
Skill Ups are our monthly series of trainings on organizing skills to help build our UU the Vote and Side with Love Volunteer Squads and help YOU build stronger teams in your congregation and community. We'll start the session with some spiritual fun and then launch into our training. See our past trainings.