Week Three: January 31 - February 6

Theme: Decriminalization & Racial Justice

READ

• Read along: "Not My Idea - A Book About Whiteness" by Anastasia Higginbotham

WATCH

• Conversation with Zach Norris, author of this year's UUA Common Read Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons, and Punishment, with UU religious professionals on the theological necessity of redefining safety and investing in care.

• Defund Police from Project NIA, a grassroots organization that works to end the arrest, detention, and incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice practices.

ACT

• All Ages: Have a family conversation about who needs more help in your town. How would your town be different if these communities were given help? More houses? Doctors? Parks? Schools? Imagine what your town would look like if money was spent on the communities who needed it most. Draw a picture of how it would be different than it is today.

• Adult (Individual): The People’s Response Act, from Congresswomen Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, Jan Schakowsky, and Pramila Jayapal, emphasizes an inclusive, holistic, and health-centered approach to public safety by creating a public safety division within the Department of Human Health and Services. Learn more about it and then send an email to your representatives asking them to co-sponsor it.

• Collective: TBA

LISTEN

• "Jordan Talks About Systemic Racism" from A Kid’s Book About: The Podcast