Current Chair of Unity in the Community, Manassas, Virginia.
I'm a retired federal librarian (2005 from the Library of Congress) and since then have been more active in social justice issues, human rights, social action and interfaith activities. I'm active in my church, sing in an auditioned choir in the Washington, DC area, belong to a men's support group and get to the gym about four times a week (on a good week).
'Unity' meets monthly, usually in a local church, synagogue or mosque. We monitor human rights, hate crimes, and intolerance in Prince William Co., Virginia. Happily there are some good folks around that support us in many ways. Unhappily there are way too many folks eager to make life difficult for minorities and other non-white, non-English speaking immigrant populations. We monitor events in the schools, public forums, police actions, country government and lots of other places. We just produced a great resource on immigration called "Words of Compassion" that collects statements from faith groups, governments, secular organizations, etc. concerned with the immigration situation here and across the U.S. It gets everything into one place, which is helpful and it's indexed so you can find names, organizations, and some topics with a degree of ease. We do a series of events, a film series with the local university and try to keep the public informed about current events and human rights issues playing out on our doorsteps.
We've been NIOT participants from the beginning -- our beginning -- in 1995. Check us out on the web at www.UnityITC.org