Social Action
Racial Justice
The Racial Justice Task Force was formed by the Tapestry Board in 2023, and helped to facilitate the vote for and subsequent adoption of the anti-racism 8th Principle, in order to spearhead the effort of adopting the 8th Principle at Tapestry. The Racial Justice Task Force is committed to helping Tapestry explore and support racial justice, both within Tapestry and in our wider community.
Visit our Racial Justice page for more info.
Learn more about the 8th Principle.
Welcoming Neighbors Home
In Tapestry’s Welcoming Neighbors Home Initiative, we work to serve, and to advocate for, people experiencing homelessness. A group of nearly 40 volunteers are working on this effort. We provide dinner one night a week at the Friendship Shelter Alternative Sleeping Location in Laguna Beach, run food drives and kit-making drives. And we are advocating for more affordable housing – and specifically for 125 permanent supportive housing units in Lake Forest by 2025, and for 700 such units in South Orange County by 2035.
Women’s Rights Action Group
The Women’s Rights Action Group is a dynamic group of women, men and youths gathered together to apply our Unitarian Universalist principles in support of women and women’s issues. They provide a network of information and partnership opportunities focused on women to actively engage in as individuals or in groups.
Green Sanctuary
The Green Sanctuary Program is designed to give roots and wings to the vision that, together, we can create a world in which all people make reverence, gratitude, and care for the living Earth central to our lives. For more information or to get involved contact Carol Semelroth at carolsem1009@gmail.com
Please check the newsletter, and our Green Sanctuary page for upcoming Green Sanctuary events.
Friends of Orange County Detainees
Friends of Orange County Detainees FOCD, formerly Friends of Orange County Detainees, began here at Tapestry in 2012. Our original mission was to offer regular visits to immigration detainees who had no friends or family in the area and also to offer a transfer program from point of release to detainee’s family or sponsor.
The three immigration detention centers here in Orange County were subsequently closed and since that time, FOCD has continually searched out other ways in which to support our immigrant communities.
To learn more about FOCD’s current activities or to become a volunteer, please visit the FOCD Facebook Page, email us at friendsofocdetainees@gmail.com, or call us at (949) 424-6612.
Partners
We also join in various projects with other Unitarian Universalist organizations, e.g., Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA), Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry (UULM) and Pacific Southwest District (PSWD), and other organizations involved in social action.
Some of the links to these organizations and others are as follows:
