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Social Justice Corner

• The Faith Action Steering Committee meeting formed a ‘Transformative Justice Task Force’. If you are interested in attending, the next meeting is June 30, 6pm. More details on how to join will be provided here once available. Note: this meeting was scheduled for Wednesday June 23, but has been shifted to next week to allow people to attend the March for Justice (see below).   

 

• Error!  The March for Justice was mistyped as June 24.  It was June 23.  Sincere apologies for this error.  The orginal message read: MARCH FOR JUSTICE: Justice For Iremamber Sykap and Lindani Myeni, June 24, 4-6:30 PM.  Meet at the Capitol, march to Honolulu Police Department, and to Thomas Square. Join us in demanding transparency, accountability, and justice for all victims of the Honolulu Police Department

 

• Would you like more transparency and community involvement in HPD hiring? Please sign and share this petition put together by the Honolulu Police Commission Task Force: https://p2a.co/7k2T40t

 

• Please ask your Senators to support pathways to citizenship for essential workers and their families by completing this simple form. Encourage them to support S.264 – DREAM Act (sponsors Durbin and Graham), S.306 SECURE Act (for TPS holders – sponsors Van Hollen and Cardin), and the Farm Workforce Modernization Act sent to the Senate as (H.R.1603), and to go beyond that by finding ways to incorporate citizenship for essential workers and their families in must-pass legislation.

An estimated 5 million undocumented individuals—nearly 3 in 4 of all undocumented immigrants in the workforce—are working every day alongside other Americans in essential roles as doctors, nurses, and home health aides, custodians, food servers, and administrative workers. They protect the nation’s food security in farms, food processing facilities, grocery stores, and restaurants. They are first responders and teachers. These workers have stepped up for our country and put their lives—and the lives of their loved ones—on the line when we needed them most. They will play an equally critical role in rebuilding our economy and our country in the years ahead. But even as they have continued to perform essential work, they have often been left out of the relief packages and treated as an afterthought in vaccine programs.