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Gotta Have Faith

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We invite people from different faith traditions (or any spirituality!) who are motivated by social justice to deepen our vision of economic justice, and learn about each other's social justice work. Join us on June 11, from 6 to 7:30 pm, to gather at Nubian Markets to build new and deepen existing individual and communal relationships as a means of building power and connection. 


Organized by Ujima’s Anchor Institutions organizing team and Boston Ujima Project staff, in partnership with Episcopal City Mission and other community allies, we hope to build this interfaith network for three key reasons: 


  1. Promote Ujima —that is, collective work and responsibility for the common good.

  2. Expand Boston Ujima Project's own network of support.

  3. Advance an economy that supports Black-owned businesses in Boston and that is rooted in values of solidarity.


Register here to gather with us for a rich dialogue, catered in-house by Nubian Markets!



Steve Dubb (he/him) has been a member of the Anchor Institutions organizing team at the Boston Ujima Project since 2018. Steve is also active in Boston’s PILOT Action Group and volunteers for the Center for Cooperative Development and Solidarity (CCDS), a network of Latino/Latina worker co-ops in East Boston.  Steve has a long history in cooperative and solidarity economy organizing going back to the 1980s. Steve currently works as a senior editor of economic justice for Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ).


Naomi Scheman (she/hers) retired in 2016 from teaching philosophy and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota. She moved to Arlington and joined the Boston Workers Circle, where she has been a co-chair of AFREJ, the Acting for Racial and Economic Justice committee. In that capacity she has been involved with Ujima, through the Anchor Institutions and Faith Network teams, as well as with BUPNP (Building Up People Not Prisons), RIC (the Reparations Interfaith Coalition), and TIM (Together for an Inclusive Massachusetts).

The Anchor Institutions Member Organizing team consists of Ujima members and solidarity members with the primary objective of supporting the Ujima ecosystem by organizing institutions in Greater Boston, focusing on universities, hospitals, and faith-based organizations, to actively support Ujima’s mission. Key strategies include focusing on procurement, involving purchases from Ujima Good Business Alliance members' businesses; and engagement in values-aligned campaigns through Ujima’s grassroots partners, such as the PILOT Action Group.

 
 
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