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Drawing from almost a decade of experience on Capitol Hill working on energy and environmental policy and legislation, Katie will speak in her personal capacity about the power UUs have to help drive the progressive agenda.

Katie will pull from examples of her work as Staff Director for the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment for Rep. Ro Khanna and Senior Policy Advisor for Energy and Environment to Senator Bernie Sanders before that.

Find posts from Katie via X (formerly Twitter) @KtreeThomas and the CPC Center at @WeBuildProgress, or TikTok @progressivecaucuscenter.

An intimate conversation with former Bernie Sanders staffer

Katie Thomas Carol, Esq.

Keep Calling And Writing:

How the Climate Justice Movement Affects Federal Legislation

UUSJ is pleased to present a Zoom policy talk by Katie Thomas Carol, Esq., Director of Energy and Environment Programs for the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center (the CPC Center), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that identifies and develops solutions to build a more just, equitable, and resilient nation.

The CPC Center believes everyone should have a say in the policy decisions affecting our lives. Inclusive governance—led by frontline communities, including, but not limited to, Black people, Indigenous people, other people of color, women, LGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, immigrants, people of various faiths and traditions, people experiencing homelessness, and low-income people—is key to achieving a nation in which all of us can thrive.

Katie has important insights to share with Unitarian Universalists. Katie will help us appreciate our role, and remind us why we advocate for progressive solutions. She will explain how that advocacy helps shape and drive the negotiations for the environmental and climate justice legislation we want.

Katie's insights will help us understand the importance of sharing our power with impacted folks, our potential role within the larger environment and climate justice movement, and, most especially, why we do the long-haul work, not the loop-hole work.

Thursday, April 4

8:00pm ET • 7:00pm CT • 6:00pm MT • 5:00pm PT

Theological grounding and chalice lighting by the Rev. Dr. Beth Ann Johnson. Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson is the minister of the Unitarian Church of Hinsdale, IL. She works on intersectional justice issues, including immigration, racial and worker justice, climate and environmental justice, LGBTQIA+ and reproductive justice. She has served on numerous boards where faith and justice meet. Rev. Dr. Johnson is also a certified spiritual director and provides spiritual direction, workshops, and retreats for faith leaders and activists in the Work That Reconnects in order to foster personal and systemic transformational change and is committed to sacred activism - linking spirituality and radical social change. Her approach is grounded in trauma-informed somatic practices and breathwork.

She serves on the Coordinating Committee of Illinois Poor People's Campaign, and as co-chair of the Unitarian Universalist Association Poor People's Campaign Leadership Council.

An intimate conversation with former Bernie Sanders staffer

Katie Thomas Carol, Esq.

Keep Calling And Writing:

How the Climate Justice Movement Affects Federal Legislation

Katie will pull from examples of her work as Staff Director for the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittee on the Environment for Rep. Ro Khanna and Senior Policy Advisor for Energy and Environment to Senator Bernie Sanders before that.She will help us understand and appreciate our role and remind us why we advocate for progressive solutions. She will also explain how that advocacy helps shape and drive the negotiations for the environmental and climate justice legislation we want.

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We will send a reminder ahead of the webinar, but in the meantime, please add the Zoom information to your calendar.

Thursday, April 4

8:00 p.m. ET • 7:00 p.m. CT • 6:00 p.m. MT • 5:00 p.m. PT

ZOOM Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83249453182

Meeting ID: 832 4945 3182

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What is the U.S. Climate Fair Share?

Advancing Climate Justice by Increasing U.S. Domestic and International Commitments

Join us on April 16th, 8:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. PT, for a talk with Rev. Susannah Tuttle, Director of the Eco-Justice Connection for NC Interfaith Power & Light, North Carolina Council of Churches. Rev. Susannah works on initiatives addressing environmental and climate justice issues as a moral imperative.

A life-long Unitarian Universalist, Rev. Susannah will speak about her work and campaign on the U.S. Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) or Fair Share. She will reflect on responses to that effort during COP 28, and describe the required future work, and role UUs can play.

RSVP for April 16th with Rev. Susannah