ANNOUNCEMENTS

How Alabama justice has treated Blacks is revealed in this movie, based on a true story.

Metro has two property tax assistance programs for senior and disabled low-income homeowners. With the steep increase in property tax rates just approved by Metro Council, these programs are more important than ever. Due to COVID-19, the deadline to apply or renew this year was extended to July 1 (next Wednesday!).

Our Share the Plate partner this month is the Mayor’s COVID-19 Response Fund.

“It was on June 19th that the Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and Black communities were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. For our people, freedom in this country has always been hard-fought and much-delayed.”

The Mass Poor People's Assembly and Moral March on Washington is a program that will be broadcast on Saturday, June 20th at 9am and 5pm CST, and again on Sunday, June 21st at 5pm CST, at June2020.org. The UUA is among a long and illustrious list of Mobilizing Partners.

Here is an easy way to request absentee ballots.

You have an opportunity in May to help influence Tennessee legislation. Let's live up to the Unitarian reputation for activism.

Please give generously to GNUUC’s share the plate in May, to support the work of Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, who are “Feeding Hope” for those without food in the aftermath of the tornados, during the economic crash of the pandemic, and even in their everyday lives, children and adults living in poverty.

Gideon’s Army is a community-based, grassroots organization that works to design programs, based on contemporary interpretations of the theory of restorative justice.

You can now donate to Share the Plate using your phone!

Send a text that says “$10 SHARE” to (615) 246-5553. (or your preferred amount)

The first time you donate it will ask you to set up how you’d like to pay.

After that, you can just pay with text any time you want by sending the amount you want to pay and “SHARE.”

Text to pay is run through Breeze, so you’ll receive an accounting of what you have paid for lunch at the end of the year, separated out from your other donations.

Mental Health America of the MidSouth was founded in 1946 by Vanderbilt psychiatrist, Frank Luton, M.D., with underwriting by the Junior League of Nashville. Our mission is to connect the community with specialized mental health and wellness resources, provide services that improve the quality of life, and promote effective services where mental health needs exist.

"The Nature Conservancy" is our Share the Plate organization for February 2020. Please see their recent report of their work in Tennessee via this link: Highlights from The Nature Conservancy’s Work in Tennessee - Fiscal Year 2019

Join us in supporting our homeless neighbors!