Side with Love – Upcoming Events

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Last month, faith leaders from across the country traveled to Newark for the Road to Delaney Hall: a Welcome Day, a Day of Action, and a Farewell Day held in solidarity with the fight to evict GEO Group, close Delaney Hall, and end ICE imprisonment for profit. Those who gathered in New Jersey didn’t just show up for a single day; they built a template for what solidarity looks like when it’s sustained: arriving with intention, bearing witness together, and sending each other back out recommitted to the work. That is the model we carry into August.

This month, we’re inviting congregations to take that same spirit and turn it both inward and outward: inward, through continued discernment and skill-building, and outward, through solidarity summits that connect our communities to the frontline fights still very much underway. 

On August 5, we continue the work begun in July’s Tune Up to Show Up training with the Democracy Defense and Community Safety Training, going deeper on the skills congregations need to protect their people and their public witness at this moment.

And on August 10, we gather again for The Gathering: Declarations of Democracy Series — Healing & Repair, continuing the work of naming what democracy has excluded and building, together, toward what it must become.

Finally, we’re excited to announce the dates for Tending SOIL 2027. Tending SOIL is Side with Love’s leadership program for Unitarian Universalists doing justice and organizing work in their congregations who want to work with others to more faithfully and strategically engage in the transformation of the world through liberating Love. Through SOIL, congregational or regional teams of 3-5 participants will strengthen their Skills, develop their Organizing Plan, practice Interdependence within and beyond their congregation, and deepen their understanding of Collective Liberation (ie, SOIL!). Learn more at our info session on September!

Scroll down to find this month’s full slate of events, trainings, and ways to stay connected or view this update on our blog.

Let’s keep gathering. Let’s keep choosing love, not as a slogan, but as the shared, public, transformative practice it has always been.

In solidarity, The Side with Love Team

August Events