URGENT ACTION NEEDED TO FREE ULISES Help build pressure on ICE to release Ulises, a 30-year-old husband, father, and longtime Bay Area resident with life-threatening health conditions. Ulises was violently arrested by ICE in Sunnyvale on Feb 21 during an unlawful operation. ICE’s egregious misconduct led to Ulises being rushed...
Join the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) in urging our U.S. Senators and Representatives to cosponsor the NO BAN Act. From NRCAT: In President Trump’s first term, through three iterations of executive orders, people from several Muslim-majority and African countries were barred from entering the U.S. on most or all...
We gather to reaffirm sanctuary, a sacred tradition across many faiths of welcoming immigrants and standing against actions that would tear families and communities apart.
Presentations by Catholic Charities and the Asian Law Caucus regarding immigrant rights, safety plans, resources, legal Q&A.
Learn how to legally document and monitor ICE officials during immigration raids in real-time. This training will equip volunteers to respond in both Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
Quakers (Society of Friends) “We are not for names, nor men, nor titles of Government,nor are we for this party or against the other…but we are for justice and mercy and truth and peace and true freedom,that these may be exalted in our nationand that goodness, righteousness, meekness, temperance, peace,and unity with...
You are invited to read this thought-provoking reflection by Rabbi Amy Eilberg, a member of the MVPJ Steering Committee, printed in full in “Forward” on October 15, 2024: A colleague recently reminded me that during the Vietnam War, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel told a journalist that he could not pray because whenever...
Prayer of Mothers for Life and Peace by Sheikha Ibtisam and Rabbi Tamar Elad-Appelbaum
Words seem inadequate when deeds are so horrific as to defy the ability to string together anything that can ease the pain, lessen the fear, defuse the anger, and move the broken and wounded to doing anything other than striking back. Yet as people of faith committed to peace, we...
In response to the increasing risk of a nuclear disaster, Multifaith Voices for Peace & Justice’s Steering Committee has endorsed a letter to President Biden with an urgent call for the resumption of arms control negotiation. The letter was issued on September 22 by some 29 distinguished and diverse faith...