IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO BE PART OF JUSTICE GA

Online pre-registration and offsite delegate registration close on June 8, but you can register onsite starting June 19 at no additional cost. There's housing available in the area, and folks are advertising for room shares on the GA list (http://lists.uua.org/mailman/listinfo/uua-ga). So check out those last-minute flight deals on your favorite discount websites.

You'll have opportunities to join in powerful witness events, both in the heart of downtown Phoenix and in an interfaith candlelight vigil at Sheriff Arpaio's infamous Tent City jail, and to meet with local partners in a multicultural Community Celebration.  

You'll get to worship and sing together with thousands of fellow UU's.

You can learn, network and shop for justice in the extensive Exhibit Hall.

You'll have opportunities for service to the local immigrant community.

You'll get to join in discussions and hear speakers including:

• Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa, creator of the PBS documentary "Lost in Detention"
• Isabel Garcia, Public Defender's Office of Pima County in Tucson, AZ and Director of Coalición de Derechos Humanos
• Dr. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
• Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice and author of Wage Theft in America
• Pablo Alvarado, Director of National Day Labor Organizing Network
• Carlos Garcia of Puente and Salvador Reza of Committees for Defense of the Barrios
• Donna Redwing, Director of Grassroots Leadership, on shutting down private detention centers
• Randy Parraz, who led the recall of Senator Russell Pearce (author of SB1070)

CAN'T GO TO PHOENIX? GET INVOLVED AT HOME!

You can join in the quest for justice close to home, in ways large and small.

• Help the UUA expand the reach of Justice GA into nationwide Days of Witness. Check out the Standing on the Side of Love website for many ideas and resources at http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/national-days-of-witness-for-justice-june-20-24-no-human-being-is-illegal/
• Offer a film or forum on immigration issues at your congregation.
• Gather with your congregation to watch and discuss live-streamed GA events. (You can find a schedule of the live videos at http://www.uua.org/ga/2012/index.shtml Just remember the times are in Mountain Standard Time--same as PDT, 3 hours behind EDT).
• Buy books this month from the UUA Bookstore using the codePhoenixGA. The Bookstore will contribute 5% to GA service project recipients in Arizona.
• Organize a write-in or call-in to the White House to oppose nationwide implementation of the Secure Communities program
• Contact the Department of Homeland Security to raise concerns on INS abuses of detainees and press for investigation of them.
• Join in a vigil at a local detention center.
• Ask local and state law enforcement officials not to honor ICE detention requests under Secure Communities. (For all the information you'll need for that effort, see http://www.interfaithimmigration.org/index.php/state-resources/stop-s-comm-at-the-local-level/ )
• Check in with your state legislators about the status of anti-immigrant bills in both MA and RI, and let them know of your opposition.
• Make time and space to listen to your delegates returning from GA.