Omak–Seven Rivers District—15th YEAR! How We Got Here

2010	1st year	Studied the Charter for Racial Justice and shared articles from newspapers.
2011	2nd year	Discussed and shared the book, Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968, by Alice Knotts, a UMW historian on discrimination of gender and race.
2012	3rd year	Studied and discussed Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON.ORG), now Immigration Law & Justice Network (iljnetwork.org). Lawyers helping immigrant families. Also, sentencingproject.org offers alternatives to mass incarceration.
2013	4th year	Discussed the United States’ southern border wall and fences.
2014	5th year	Studied the Book of RUTH, including downloadable resources from UMW.
2015	6th year	We delivered a sermon to the congregation on immigration and civil rights.
2016	7th year	Studied the effects of the “Doctrine of Discovery.” Endorsed in 1493 by Pope Alexander, this doctrine contributed to the much suffering of the America’s Indigenous peoples, including “The Trail of Tears,” and more.
2017	8th year	Studied about Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865.
2018	9th year	Discussed “The New Jim Crow“ book, by Michelle Alexander, about the treatment of blacks versus whites in the legal system.
2019	10th year	Discussed Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women’s non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
2020	11th year	Discussed the “School to Prison Pipeline,“ directing non-white children and youth, even as young as 6-year-olds, toward detention facilities in our country.
2021	12th year	Studied the KKK’s (Ku Klux Klan) history in Washington State. This organization is still active in Washington.
2022	13th year	Read about missing indigenous women and girls (sex trafficking) and native American children who died at boarding schools.
2023	14th year	Discussed the UMW book Racial Justice Timeline, Important Moments of Racial Justice History in the United States and United Methodist Women.
2024	15th year	Read Back to the Book by Alice Knotts, featuring 14 chapters on the lessons learned from the journey from 1920 to 1968, as well as changing attitudes and WARN (Washington Anti-Trafficking Response).