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Pagbangon (Rise-up): Filipinx Stories of Resistance, Prayers of Resilience

Join us on Thursday, December 9, 2021 in honor of International Human Rights Day for a virtual vigil with ritual, song, and call to action. We will center Filipinx voices impacted by inhumane U.S. immigration and incarceration policies, and US-backed human rights abuses in the Philippines.

We invite people of all faiths, cultures, and traditions to join us in embodying our Philippine values: magpagaling ng kababayan (healing of Filipinx community), paglaban (to fight), pagbangon (to rise up), and pagkikibaka (to struggle).

Speakers include:

  • Rev. Henry Pablo, Los Banos and Dos Palos United Methodist Church (UMC)
  • Rev. Jeanelle Ablola, Pine UMC
  • Rev. Jojo Gabuya, Fellowship Church of Reconciliation
  • Estelito Adiova, community leader in Imperial Regional Detention Center
  • Maria Legarda, Asian Prisoner Support Committee and Kasama ng Kalayaan
  • Shelly Clements, IM4HI volunteer and Kasama ng Kalayaan
  • Rev. Fel Cao, Faith and Riverside UMC
  • Johanna Dela Cruz, National Council of Churches in the Philippines

FB-event: https://fb.me/e/12zTUyOU1
RSVP: bit.ly/FilipinxVigilDec9-RSVP
Zoom: bit.ly/FilipinxVigilDec9-Zoom

To learn more about our Filipinx faith organizing, read our blog post on Filipinx American History Month.

Join our Kasama ng Kalayaan collective to organize for the liberation and healing of our Filipinx community members impacted by immigration detention, deportation, and incarceration.

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Reparations as a Road to Decarceration

Join us Thursday, June 17 as we spiritually reflect on African American Reparations and connect it to the need to repair the harm of incarceration and criminalization.
Join us for stimulating reflections, music and prayer.

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More info about the speakers

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Prayer Service for Liberation

See the video https://fb.watch/6gGh5DSGCg/

During the season of holy days of Jewish Passover, Christian Holy Week, and upcoming Muslim Ramadan and Buddhist Hanamatsuri;
we invite your presence virtually to pray with us for the closing of the first ten detention centers.

Interwoven with music and prayers, we will have testimonies from immigrants who experienced detention and faith leaders from some of the ten sites we are pushing to close.

Together we call for the liberation of those still held captive.

We invite the national interfaith community and all those impacted by our immigration and incarceration systems to come together as we deliver this message from the faith community to President Biden and his administration.

This event was organized by:

  • Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Church World Service
  • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
  • Detention Watch Network

Have You Signed the Faith Letter for Liberation?
National Faith Letter urging Congress and the Biden administration to end the contracts and close the first ten (#FirstTen) detention centers. This would move our nation in the direction towards humane treatment and effective community alternatives to detention.
FAITH LETTER HERE