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Growing Vital Religious Communities In Canada
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Resolution on
Anti-Racism
Passed May, 2003 |
Courtesy University of Saskatchewan |
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS TO AMEND ANTI-RACISM RESOLUTION OF
MAY 2003
For presentation and voting at CUC ACM May 2007
Submitted by CUC Racial and First Nations Equity
Monitoring Group
RESOLUTION I
WHEREAS it is more powerful to assert that which we
support rather than that
which we oppose.
RESOLVED to make the following changes in the May 2003
Anti-Racism
Resolution:
Change title to: Resolution on Racial, Religious, and
First Nations Equity.
Change the word "anti-racism" where it occurs to
"racial, religious, and
First Nations equity", particularly:
-Change "CUC agrees to develop an anti-racism strategy"
to "CUC agrees to
develop a racial, religious, and First Nations equity
strategy".
-Change "develop suitable resources across the country
for training
ourselves in anti-racism" to "develop suitable resources
across the country
for training ourselves in racial, religious, and First
Nations equity".
-Change "active witnesses against racism" to "active
witnesses for racial,
religious, and First Nations equity".
-Change "network with other organizations doing
anti-racism work" to
"network with ethnic and faith groups of the Canadian
mosaic, and with
other organizations which support racial, religious, and
First Nations
equity".
RESOLUTION II
WHEREAS the May 1995 First Nations Justice Resolution,
and the May 2003
Racism Resolution, urged us to educate ourselves in
racial equity and First
Nations Justice, and to develop material for that
purpose.
WHEREAS the Racial Equity and First Nations Monitoring
Group in response to
those directives has adapted and developed three
workshops to be found on
the CUC website:
Welcoming/Celebrating Congregational Diversity (WCCD)
Rainbowmaking Workshops (RBW)
Connecting the Canadas: Coast to Coast to Coast (5 C's)
WHEREAS we wish to increase our commitment to diversity
within our
congregations, and build stronger relationships with
other ethnic and faith
groups.
WHEREAS these workshops are intended to help make
ourselves both more open
to diversity within our congregations, and to bridge
build with diverse
ethnic and faith groups.
RESOLVED that the following be added to the 2003
Anti-Racism Resolution:
Encourage all congregations to have members train as
leaders in conducting
the Welcoming/Celebration Congregational Diversity (WCCD)
workshop, and to
conduct that workshop for their members.
Encourage all congregations to conduct Rainbowmaking (RBW,
workshops in six
sessions), and/or Connecting the Canadas : Coast to
Coast to Coast (5 C's).
Have CUC develop criteria for credentialling
congregations which have
completed WCCD, RBW, and/or 5 C's, and have expressed
their openness to
greater diversity within their midst.
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