Category: Social Justice

The FUSF Sustainable Native Landscape Team Presents:

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A Native Plant Seed Starting Workshop! Saturday January 18, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. Growing native plants in your yard is essential for supporting pollinators and birds. To start a native plant garden, you can buy plants or you can start seeds and grow them yourselves.  It takes a little longer, but it is much cheaper (and more fun) to grow them from seeds.  Join us for a presentation on the importance of native plants and how to grow them … Continue reading The FUSF Sustainable Native Landscape Team Presents:

Find Your Oxygen Mask – An Interactive Workshop 

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Sunday, January 19, 2025 11:45 am–1 pm The FUSF Welcoming Congregation Initiative Team invites you to an interactive workshop titled, “Find Your Oxygen Mask.”  Members of the LGBTQIA+ community, their allies, and anyone interested in learning more, are welcome to attend. We will connect, learn, and share resources, fears, and hopes during these uncertain times. We hope that whoever you are, wherever you are from, whomever you love, whether your heart is heavy or light, … Continue reading Find Your Oxygen Mask – An Interactive Workshop 

An Evening of Conversation Regarding Food Sovereignty and Access

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with Special Guest Speaker Sister Anna Gilbert-Muhammad Thursday, April 24, 2025, 7–8.30 pm The FUSF Food Justice team invites you to share an evening of thoughtful discussion with our special guest, Sister Anna Gilbert–Muhammad. Sister Anna will focus on the current state of food justice, access and sovereignty issues in Massachusetts. This is a particularly timely topic given the current pressures on our food system from climate change and the rapidly changing policies at the … Continue reading An Evening of Conversation Regarding Food Sovereignty and Access

Wasted Food, Hunger, and the Climate Emergency: How Food Recovery Helps

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Franklin Food Pantry Special Event for Hunger Action Month Hosted by the FUSF Food Justice Team Thursday, September 12, 2024 at FUSF Join Liz Miller of Spoonfuls, a Massachusetts-based food recovery organization, for an educational evening examining how collecting fresh, edible food that would otherwise go to waste, and distributing it to social service agencies like The Pantry can help address food insecurity and the climate crisis. Please register to attend: https://www.franklinfoodpantry.org/hungeractionmonth For questions contact … Continue reading Wasted Food, Hunger, and the Climate Emergency: How Food Recovery Helps

Mother’s Day Walk for Peace

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May 12, 8 am–11 am This year will be the 28th annual Mother’s Day Walk for peace, a tradition that honors the lives of loved ones who have been murdered and is the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute’s largest fundraising event. FUSF has been part of the walk since 2016 and will have a team walking again this year.  The theme this year is “Cultivating Cycles of Peace.”  The Peace Institute’s services to survivors, advocacy … Continue reading Mother’s Day Walk for Peace