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Omak\u2013Seven Rivers District\u201415th YEAR! How We Got Here<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
2010<\/td>1st year<\/td>Studied the Charter for Racial Justice<\/a> and shared articles from newspapers.<\/td><\/tr>
2011<\/td>2nd year<\/td>Discussed and shared the book, Fellowship of Love: Methodist Women Changing American Racial Attitudes, 1920-1968<\/em>, by Alice Knotts, a UMW historian on discrimination of gender and race.<\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/td>3rd year<\/td>Studied and discussed Justice for Our Neighbors (JFON.ORG<\/a>), now Immigration Law & Justice Network (iljnetwork.org<\/a>). Lawyers helping immigrant families. Also, sentencingproject.org<\/a> offers alternatives to mass incarceration.<\/td><\/tr>
2013<\/td>4th year<\/td>Discussed the United States\u2019 southern border wall and fences.<\/td><\/tr>
2014<\/td>5th year<\/td>Studied the Book of RUTH<\/em>, including downloadable resources from UMW.<\/td><\/tr>
2015<\/td>6th year<\/td>We delivered a sermon to the congregation on immigration and civil rights.<\/td><\/tr>
2016<\/td>7th year<\/td>Studied the effects of the \u201cDoctrine of Discovery<\/a>.\u201d Endorsed in 1493 by Pope Alexander, this doctrine contributed to the much suffering of the America\u2019s Indigenous peoples, including \u201cThe Trail of Tears,\u201d and more.<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>8th year<\/td>Studied about Juneteenth and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>9th year<\/td>Discussed \u201cThe New Jim Crow<\/a>\u201c book, by Michelle Alexander, about the treatment of blacks versus whites in the legal system.<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>10th year<\/td>Discussed Leymah Gbowee<\/a>, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women\u2019s non-violent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace<\/a>, that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>11th year<\/td>Discussed the \u201cSchool to Prison Pipeline,\u201c directing non-white children and youth, even as young as 6-year-olds, toward detention facilities in our country.<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>12th year<\/td>Studied the KKK\u2019s (Ku Klux Klan) history in Washington State. This organization is still active in Washington.<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>13th year<\/td>Read about missing indigenous women and girls (sex trafficking) and native American children who died at boarding schools.<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>14th year<\/td>Discussed the UMW book Racial Justice Timeline, Important Moments of Racial Justice History in the United States and United Methodist Women<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>15th year<\/td>Read Back to the Book <\/em>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).<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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Omak\u2013Seven Rivers District\u201415th 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 … Continue reading Omak’s Racial Justice Club’s History<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1166,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15200","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PadWcW-3Xa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15200\/revisions\/15201"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/uwfaith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}