Category: Social Justice

Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (8 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (8 June 2025) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

Our topic will be Naomi Klein on the rise of end times fascism facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger

We will view and discuss an interview with award-winning journalist, author, and Professor of Climate Justice at British Columbia University.

She spoke with Democracy Now host Amy Goodman about the recent article she co-authored with Astra Taylor (“The Rise of End Times Fascism“).

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor say:

We are convinced that the more people understand the extent to which the right has succumbed to the Armageddon complex, the more they will be willing to fight back, realizing that absolutely everything is now on the line.

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Online and In-Person Adult Religious Education (1 June 2025)

Please join us on Sunday (1 June 2025) for our adult religious education class at 9:00 AM.

Our adult religious education class is now a dual-platform class — meeting in person in the church social hall and also on Zoom.

Our topic will be “How Fascism Works Explained – A Video Exploration of the Book by Jason Stanley” and facilitated by Susan Caldwell and Barbara Deger.

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OutNorthLA Film Festival — June 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of June 2025, we choose the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

This film festival is North Louisiana’s acclaimed LGBTQ film festival which returns 5-11 September 2025.

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Shreveport Green and then put “GATP JUN 2025” or “OutNorthLA” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of June 2025 will go to the OutNorthLA Film Festival.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “OutNorthLA” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Shreveport Green.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to OutNorthLA, please put the amount you want going to OutNorthLA on the memo line.

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Donate a Banned Book to the Banned Book Bookshelf

Starting this Sunday (18 May 2025) and beyond — donate a banned book to our congregation’s banned book bookshelf dedicated to the memory of John Tuggle.

Thanks to our Board President Sally Wood (who was inspired by a gift of banned books from her daughter) we now have a banned books bookshelf in the sanctuary foyer waiting to be filled.

Please bring one or more banned books from your home library to donate to the bookshelf.

Want to find out what books have been banned?  Check out the American Library Association’s Banned Book Lists.

You may be surprised by some of the books on it and a Unitarian Universalist is probably going to have at least one banned book in their home library.

The Banned Books Bookshelf is dedicated to the memory of our own John Tuggle who (before his death in September 2024) was Director of the Shreve Memorial Library System and a fierce advocate for the right to read the books of our choosing, free from censorship by those who would rewrite history, and even write some of our fellow citizens out of existence.

Let’s work together to build this very fitting memorial to our friend John.

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Empty Chair Town Hall Rescheduled (15 May 2025)

Empty Chair Town Hall — Make your voice heard!
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — 6:00 -8:00 PM
Grace Community United Methodist Church
9400 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106

Note — This is a rescheduled event (original event was cancelled due to weather on 6 May 2025).

Whether you’re concerned about cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, veterans benefits, and education, appalled by illegal deportations, or just worried about the state of democracy — come and let your voice be heard in a 2-minute statement that will later be shared with our no-show congressional representatives.

This is a non-partisan, non-denominational event sponsored by 10,000 Women Louisiana, Indivisible North Louisiana, and Indivisible Shreveport-Bossier City.

Click here to register for this event (registration is free).

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Shreveport Green — May 2025 Give-Away-The-Plate Recipient

Each month we dedicate all of our non-pledge income to a community organization doing the work that best embodies our Unitarian Universalist values.

For the month of May 2025, we choose Shreveport Green.

Shreveport Green programs include:

Two ways to donate:

Online — Go to our donation site using this link.  If you are paying your pledge, select “2025 Pledges” and enter that amount for your pledge contribution.  Then select “Collection Plate” to give the amount you would like to give to Shreveport Green and then put “GATP MAY 2025” or “Shreveport Green” in the comment section.  All online collection plate contributions for the month of May 2025 will go to Shreveport Green.

Offline — Please send your give away the plate contribution checks to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 9449 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106.  Please put “Shreveport Green” on the memo line of the check if  you want to have 100% of your check go to Shreveport Green.  If you want less than 100% of your check to go to Shreveport Green, please put the amount you want going to Shreveport Green on the memo line.

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42nd Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service of Northwest Louisiana (27 April 2025)

The 42nd Annual Holocaust Remembrance Service of Northwest Louisiana will be happening on Sunday (27 April 2025) at 3:00 PM at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (275 Southfield Road, Shreveport LA  71105).

Since 1984, various community partners have gathered to present a service in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

The Chair of the service this year is Father Michael Cannon of St. Paul’s and the featured speaker is award-winning author and child of Holocaust survivors Kathy Kacer.

Register here if you plan to attend.

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Empty Chair Town Hall (6 May 2025)

Empty Chair Town Hall — Make your voice heard!
Tuesday, 6 May 2025 — 6:00 -8:00 PM
Grace Community United Methodist Church
9400 Ellerbe Road, Shreveport LA  71106

Whether you’re concerned about cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, veterans benefits, and education, appalled by illegal deportations, or just worried about the state of democracy — come and let your voice be heard in a 2-minute statement that will later be shared with our no-show congressional representatives.

This is a non-partisan, non-denominational event sponsored by 10,000 Women Louisiana, Indivisible North Louisiana, and Indivisible Shreveport-Bossier City.

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