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This week’s highlights include the announcement that Waterspirit is hiring a part-time development coordinator and how to apply, how to register for our Waterside Chat this Thursday with NJ LCV’s Lee Clark, a welcome back to the Sanctuary in Rumson for our Meditation for Earth sessions on Tuesdays, a Waterspirit reopening survey, information about the Poor People’s Campaign and a link to register for our upcoming 10-Step Eco-Anxiety Support Group.
Waterspirit is seeking a part-time Development Coordinator. This position reports directly to the Executive Director. Our small team, flexible hours, and faith-driven mission make working at Waterspirit a unique experience. While some remote work for this position might be possible, applicants must be based in New Jersey and have the ability to work from our office in Rumson as needed.
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Waterspirit is committed to diversity and to building an inclusive environment for all people. We particularly encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply.
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This week’s highlights include Waterspirit back in our offices at RPC, registration information for our upcoming Waterside Chat on Storm Water Utilities and Flooding Management, how to join our Book Club, the 5th Annual ANJEE Outdoor Conference in September and the workshop Waterspirit will be offering, information on our fall Eco-Anxiety Support Group and Green Amendment Day recap and environmental justice leadership.
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This weeks’ highlights include the Pay Up Climate Polluters event, information about our upcoming 10-Step Eco-Anxiety Support Group, the Green Amendment Kahoot event sign-up, a registration link to our August Waterside Chat, voting in NJ and fair districts update, Waterspirit’s sign on to end a carbon capture and storage climate policy, and our weekly Meditation for Earth video links.
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This weeks highlights include celebrating Green Amendment Day, joining the Green Amendment Kahoot, information on how to join the Pay Up Climate Polluters interactive webinar, how 2030 is the new 2050, registration link to our upcoming Waterside Chat and how to stay cool in this NJ summer heatwave.
Special thanks to Ashley Park for creating the powerful image above.
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This week’s highlights include information about the upcoming Green Amendment Day on July 13th, Megaciph’s recorded Waterside Chat and Album Release show on Waterspirit’s YouTube, how to join our Book Club and an excerpt from the book we are currently reading, a sign-on to halt deep-sea mining, notes about the recent pipeline burst in the Gulf of Mexico, the EXXON lies that were exposed and Waterspirit’s involvement with Pay Up Climate Polluters.
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This week’s highlights include a Green Amendment update, the beautiful Summer Day poem by Mary Oliver, an invitation to join our book club, information about Waterspirit’s most recent meeting with environmental justice leaders, an opportunity to sign the ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’ petition, MEGACIPH’s music video for one of his most recent songs, Everybody Arise and updates on the Poor People’s Campaign.
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This week’s highlights include our upcoming Waterside Chat and Album Release Concert with MEGACIPH, watch recordings of our most recent Waterspirit events on our YouTube channel, learn about constitutional empowerment through Green Amendments, be inspired by NJ youth calling for leadership for the Green Amendment and find out ways to become more involved in Waterspirit’s advocacy work.
Waterspirit joins diverse coalition building a 3rd Reconstruction to end poverty; uniting for a major in-person & online assembly on June 21st: The 2021 National Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly kicks off a 365-day campaign leading to a massive march & assembly in DC in 2022
WHAT: Waterspirit is joining the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival for a Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly that is both in person in Raleigh, North Carolina, and online from across the country. The PPC’s demands include: updating the country’s antiquated poverty measure; the expansion of voting rights and the Voting Rights Act; a living wage and the guaranteed right of workers to form and join unions; healthcare for all; infrastructure improvements that build from the bottom up; a guarantee of safe and quality housing; reparations for Indigenous people; a guaranteed adequate income; making public welfare programs available to all immigrants and guaranteed high-quality pre-K-12 education for all, along with free higher education.
Currently, 44 million people are living with water systems that have violated the Safe Drinking Water Act, and approximately 540,000 households lack access to complete, adequate plumbing. To address this problem, this June 21 event will demand clean, safe water for all through ending utility shutoffs and by improving water and sanitation infrastructure. It will also call on the US to embrace a bold, equitable climate agenda, ensuring a livable future for our planet. By working at the intersection of poverty and environmental injustice, Waterspirit and the Poor People’s Campaign seek to lift all boats with this rising tide.
WHO: Waterspirit is joining this call to action by the Poor People’s Campaign national co-chairs, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis. Waterspirit’s community of spiritually-attuned water protectors will join poor, low-wealth and other impacted people and religious, moral and labor leaders along with economists, musicians, cultural artists, Hollywood actors/activists, lawyers and public health experts. The hybrid online/in-person mass assembly also will include activists from Poor People’s Campaign coordinating committees in 45 states, 200 organizing partners and over 1,500 clergy members of the PPC Prophetic Council.
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30p.m. Pacific on Monday, June 21
WHERE: In person: Halifax Mall, 300 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, North Carolina. Online: www.3rdReconstruction.org
WHY: On June 21, the Poor People’s Campaign will launch a campaign to fight forward for 365 days toward a massive, generationally transformative Moral March on Washington and Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly on June 18, 2022. ** The June 2021 event will be Spanish-language interpreted, ASL interpreted & captioned. **
BACKGROUND: Nationally, more than 140 million poor and low-income people live in the United States, or 43% of the country’s population, and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic, and 250,000 die each year from poverty. Among those 140 million people are: 52.2% or 39 million children (below 18); 41.9% or 21 million elders (above 65); 42.6% or 65.8 million men; 45% or 74.2 million women; 60.4% or 26 million Black people; 64.1% or 38 million Latinx people; 40.8% or 8 million Asian people; 58.9% or 2.14 million Native/Indigenous people; 33.5% or 66 million white people. The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, with organizing committees in 45 states, is building a moral fusion movement to address the five interlocking injustices of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy and militarism and a distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.
Twitter: @unitethepoor / Instagram: @poorpeoplescampaign / Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ANewPPC
Waterspirit is a nonprofit center for spirituality and ecology based on occupied Lenni Lenape land in Rumson, NJ. As a ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, we are called to respond to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor. To get involved with our advocacy work, email: water@waterspirit.org
The Waterspirit team loves to bring our educational programming to schools, community groups, and more. Whether you’re looking for eco-spiritual programming, more information about water, or ways to take action in your community, Waterspirit can create a program that is appropriate for you. Programming can be in-person or virtual. Click here to download a pdf highlighting some of our offerings. Write to us at water@waterspirit.org to learn more.
