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When Democracy Is Attacked, We All Must Rise And Work Together

We must declare publicly, "We belong to each other"

Friend,

Join us as we gather with interfaith allies and secular friends in solidarity with D.C. and impacted people in cities across the nation. We will lament and grieve but also share compassion and hope, looking to reassert our power.

If you can't make it in person, join via the Asbury livestream at 5:30 p.m. ET • 4:30 p.m. CT • 3:30 p.m. MT • 2:30 p.m. PT 

   Link: https://youtube.com/@asburyumcdcnewchannel?si=QSk4bXEqXIt0CD-D

Together, we will embody a love-rooted in unified resistance. In community we will move through the stages of grief toward faithful action. In fellowship we will lament transforming that into hope, knowing that hope informs our communal resilience.

This interfaith and secular gathering comes as:

• Congress teeters on the brink of a shutdown—dismantling decades of progress and shredding vital social safety nets
• The Administration wages vengeance with policy violence against Black-led cities, and brown population clusters assaulting both our democracy and the Constitution
• Law enforcement officers target the youth and unhoused, at the behest of the federal government, seemingly as retribution for political defiance
• Non-governmental actors and analysts, constitutional and governance experts, agree; the plan appears to be targeting black and brown communities, cities, with authoritarian forces and practices to quiet public dissent

Friend, who can say how far this strategy will spread? How long it will linger? When, or if, it will dissipate? But we know we must side with love in solidarity and defiance.

We must declare we belong to each other and will not be silent as the harm is spread.

- All of us at Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice