Broken Glass is a Pane in the Butt
Thanks to the generous folks who've already volunteered time, we're off
to a great start on our 46th Rebuilding Together Houston project house.But we could still use some help! On the Saturdays of March 24th and 31st, we'll be renovating a dilapidated house in a marginal neighborhood, and helping an elderly or disabled Houstonian living below the poverty line to live in a safer and cozier home.We'll be helping folks who really need it, and who often were the ones doing the helping when they were more able. | 
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46th RTH House for Emerson!
SAC Committe at Work
Thanks to the generous folks who've already volunteered time, we're off to a great start on our 46th Rebuilding Together Houston project house. But we could still use some help!
On the Saturdays of March 24th and 31st, we'll be renovating a dilapidated house in a marginal neighborhood, and helping an elderly or disabled Houstonian living below the
poverty line to live in a safer and cozier home.We'll be helping folks who really need it, and
who often were the ones doing the helping when they were more able.
Please consider joining in. There are many ways to help, and you don’t have to have special skills to make a big difference.Currently, we’re looking for a lunch coordinator/provider for 3/24, carpenters, carpenter assistants, site clean-up help, trucks for hauling materials and debris. For more information on Rebuilding Together Houston, visit http://www.rebuildingtogetherhouston.org. To volunteer, contact Jill Palmer.
Hope to see you there!
Emerson to Host Rice Group Fighting Human Trafficking
From February 25 - March 3, the Abolitionists will be hosting a group of Rice students who have chosen the issue of human trafficking in Houston as the focus of their Alternative Spring Break program, naming their project, Bringing Home the Lost Girls: The Fight Against Human Trafficking. This group of twelve students and one faculty member will be "bunking down" and "chowing down" in Westwood Hall in the evenings and describe the focus of their days in this quote: "Our main work with YMCA International involves empowering victims and assisting with the recovery process. Possible activities include moving
victims into housing, planning events for victims and their families such as baby showers, field trips, and parents-night-out, creating food delivery packages, and other forms of assistance. The work we will do in the afternoons also addresses the process of recovery, providing options, and providing love and care for the victims: creating and personalizing gift baskets, improving
safe houses, and participating in the legislative and awareness side of the fight. This multifaceted issue will involve regular educational trip meetings before the week of spring break, with potential speakers from all areas of the Houston fight against sex trafficking."
SAC Survey Here's a PDF of the results from the SAC survey over the summer.
On the Saturdays of March 24th and 31st, we'll be renovating a dilapidated house in a marginal neighborhood, and helping an elderly or disabled Houstonian living below the
poverty line to live in a safer and cozier home.We'll be helping folks who really need it, and
who often were the ones doing the helping when they were more able.
Please consider joining in. There are many ways to help, and you don’t have to have special skills to make a big difference.Currently, we’re looking for a lunch coordinator/provider for 3/24, carpenters, carpenter assistants, site clean-up help, trucks for hauling materials and debris. For more information on Rebuilding Together Houston, visit http://www.rebuildingtogetherhouston.org. To volunteer, contact Jill Palmer.
Hope to see you there!
Emerson to Host Rice Group Fighting Human Trafficking
From February 25 - March 3, the Abolitionists will be hosting a group of Rice students who have chosen the issue of human trafficking in Houston as the focus of their Alternative Spring Break program, naming their project, Bringing Home the Lost Girls: The Fight Against Human Trafficking. This group of twelve students and one faculty member will be "bunking down" and "chowing down" in Westwood Hall in the evenings and describe the focus of their days in this quote: "Our main work with YMCA International involves empowering victims and assisting with the recovery process. Possible activities include moving
victims into housing, planning events for victims and their families such as baby showers, field trips, and parents-night-out, creating food delivery packages, and other forms of assistance. The work we will do in the afternoons also addresses the process of recovery, providing options, and providing love and care for the victims: creating and personalizing gift baskets, improving
safe houses, and participating in the legislative and awareness side of the fight. This multifaceted issue will involve regular educational trip meetings before the week of spring break, with potential speakers from all areas of the Houston fight against sex trafficking."
SAC Survey Here's a PDF of the results from the SAC survey over the summer.
- Climate Action and Adaptation Plans: Why Greenhouse Gases and their Effects Matter to Us - Effects of Global Climate Change (GCC) now threaten our lives, property, health, and our children's futures. We must simplify people's united support behind a single campaign for policy change on greenhouse gases; and inform ourselves, and others, about practical new Climate Action and Adaptation Plans, which lay out imaginative lifestyle change.
- Ending Slavery - Modern slavery is among the most pervasive human rights violations. Approximately 27 million people worldwide are enslaved, more than ever throughout history. Their stolen labor creates products consumed every day. However, this egregious violation is not inevitable. We can finish the work begun by our abolitionist forebears.
- Exploring Class Barriers – UU’s have a reputation for being snobbish. Pursuing social justice, it is time for us to look inward and study the barriers we create inhibiting people with modest income and/or education to feel included.
- Families, Population, and the Environment - The world's human population continues to grow. Yet millions live in poverty and many, both young and old, have been abandoned. What moral responsibility do people have to each other and to future generations? We ask for a new conversation about families and family planning, population growth, and the environment.
- Reproductive Justice: Expanding Our Social Justice Calling - Reproductive rights and health services are seriously under attack nationally. Reproductive Justice represents a broader analysis of racial, economic, cultural, and structural constraints on women’s power. The right to have children, to not have children, and to parent children in safe and healthy environments is a human right.
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