This week: Families crammed into immigrant detention centers

This week: Families crammed into immigrant detention centers

Your guide to this week’s stories from UU World.

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This week at UU World:

  • Elaine McArdle reports on Unitarian Universalist efforts in Texas to block the expansion of for-profit immigrant family detention centers in the state, where each room houses up to three women and their respective children for months at a time on misdemeanor charges.
  • Kenny Wiley accompanies Charina Austin, a black Unitarian Universalist who lives in West Baltimore, through a day of protests in her city.

“You burn a CVS, and look what happens. Even those [who had been] ignoring all this have to look at the problem today. Everyone’s paying attention now,” Charina says. As she says this, I wonder if she might also be talking about her—our—religious siblings.

  • From the Spring issue of the magazine, Taquiena Boston explains that the Unitarian Universalist Association “has moved from emphasizing programs specifically designated as ‘anti-oppression/multicultural’ to applying anti-oppression/multicultural values to every aspect of our work.”
  • Rachel Walden tracks Unitarian Universalists in the media, where the Boston Globeprofiles Beacon Press in its new home, the Wall Street Journal quotes UUA Treasurer Tim Brennan about shareholder activism, and Law & Order: SVU shows Sgt. Olivia Benson preparing for a child dedication in a UU church.
  • Heather Christensen monitors UU blogs and social media, where topics this week ranged from “smashing things” in Baltimore to evaluating people studying to become ministers.

This week’s pick from our archives:

  • Barbara Hamilton-Holway reflects on her relationship with her mother: “Mother’s love was creative and destructive at the same time. She was my slave, my master, my maid, my martyr, my playmate, my teacher, my critic, my cheerleader, my judge, and my defender.” (May/June 2004)

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