>>>>Can We Count You In? Sign the Def Justice Pledge <<<<
On July 3, I was proud to join community members and faith leaders from across the Southland to launch a new campaign from CLUE’s Black and Brown Clergy and Community Coalition called DEF Justice.
It’s a grassroots movement to withdraw from Plantation Capitalism and lean into Diversity, Equity, and Freedom.
DEF Justice is an escalation of our resistance to the assault on dignity, liberty, and democracy.
If the media and corporations pay no heed to millions of people in the streets on No Kings Day… if they ignore the millions of phone calls to protest the Billionaire Bonanza Bill that just passed Congress…perhaps our withdrawal of millions of dollars from their economy will get their attention.
Friends, you may be asking, “Where is God in all of this cruelty?” God is suffering right along with us. The good news is, God is also working through us. Together, we will be the hands and feet of God.
And DEF Justice is the campaign to equip you for the road ahead. The campaign to divest from corporations that are fueling inequality and invest in local economies begins today.
THERE ARE THREE WAYS TO ENGAGE RIGHT NOW.
DISRUPT ICE VIOLENCE – Join an Engagement Team to help get ICE out of Home Depot – Home Depot has become a hotspot for arresting our undocumented neighbors. Home Depot and the construction industry have boomed thanks to the ease of picking up day laborers in their parking lots. As we continue our Summer of Resistance, You can become part of a posse equipped to support the laborers at Home Depot and engage with management of Home Depot to get ICE out of Home Depot.
PREPARE FOR THE RESISTANCE – Join CLUE and the LA County Fed for “Nonviolent Direct Action Training” on Thursday, July 10 – Whether you’re standing with striking workers, protecting your immigrant neighbors, protesting unjust policies, or applying nonviolence in everyday life, this session offers perspectives and practical tools for action. [Sign Up Here]
DIVEST / INVEST – Stop Shopping Starbucks & Buy Local Instead – There are corner coffee shops everywhere. Starbucks has been infamously anti-worker. And you need an easy entry point for withdrawal from the corporate beast. Resolve to kick the Starbucks habit. Delete the app on your phone and find a local coffee shop to support. If you’re ready to kick your Starbucks habit, post a picture of your new coffee spot on social media and tag @cluejustice and @defjustice_
Can you take at least one of the above actions? If so, then you’re a part of DEF Justice. Welcome to the fold. Let us know you’re in by signing the DEF Justice Pledge.
DEF Justice will be a year-long campaign to learn from ancestors who broke the back of Apartheid South Africa and won freedoms through the American Civil Rights Movement.
Through learning, organizing, and action we’ll join together in the cause of revitalized and restored communities, with healthy economies, and better-functioning democracy.
We have the power to make strategic change and build an economy that works for everyone. But this resistance and rebuilding can only happen together.
Let’s do this.
In faith and solidarity,
Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez
Solidarity is Sacred
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice educates, organizes, and mobilizes faith leaders and community members to walk with workers and immigrants in their struggles for good jobs, safe workplaces, and healthy communities.
We can accompany low-wage workers—mostly immigrants and communities of color—because people like you support an organized, connected interfaith movement for economic justice.
Please join the movement to build an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top.