First UU members have a very important and special opportunity to go to Dilley, TX, on Saturday, June 27, with the Texas UU Justice Ministry and the National Coalition to End Family and Child Detention. First UU is helping sponsor a bus that will leave Austin that Saturday morning and get back Saturday mid-afternoon. This will be a peace-centered rally with national and local faith leaders in Dilley Park — not going to the gates of the concentration camp.It will be the high-profile culmination of a three-day faith leader pilgrimage from Crystal City, TX, where the US imprisoned Japanese-Americans during WWII, including elders who were in those camps and activists whose ancestors were in those camps, sharing their powerful stories. TXUUJM and partners will be highlighting the US history of concentration camps, including its influence on Nazi Germany, and calling to close the camps and free families. Sulma Franco, who was in sanctuary at First UU, is one of the organizers, along with Rev. Erin and Michelle from TXUUJM.If you were inspired by the Buddhist monks’ recent pilgrimage across the country, this is your chance to be part of something similarly peaceful and inspiring for justice in Texas and beyond. Please see the sign-up link in the TXUUJM blurb to join the June 27 rally in Dilley. Registration is required, whether you want to ride the bus or drive yourself. We are proud of this work and hope to get a big group from First UU!
