Anna Rhee captures ideas on a flip chart from the UUSJ discussion with Chuck Collins at the UU Church of Arlington. UU and noted expert Chuck Collins urged a “holding action” to avoid economic setbacks that would harm the most vulnerable, while pushing for policies such as a minimum wage increase that would help reduce … Continue reading UUSJ Hosts “Escalating Inequality” Expert and Author Chuck Collins
Workshop participants teamed up to discuss the most effective ways to reach elected officials. With growing interest of many UUs to increase their influence on public policy, Mount Vernon Unitarian Church hosted a 3-hour Advocacy Training Workshop on December 10. The 17 participants learned how to become more effective advocates through discussions and role-playing, with … Continue reading Mount Vernon UUs Host UUSJ Advocacy Training Workshop
In the latest of a series of meetings on Capitol Hill, five members of the Task Group met with staffer Samantha Price of Rep. Delaney’s (D-MD 6th District) office on December 7. The primary purpose of the visit was to confirm the Representative’s continued opposition to the statutory quota that the U.S. Immigration and Customs … Continue reading UUSJ Immigration Task Group Members Discuss “Mandatory Bed Quotas” on Capitol Hill
Sean Barnett, formerly of Move to Amend, explained the efforts to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision on Citizens United and to get money out of politics, at Bring It Home to Your Congregation: UUA Congregational Study Action Issues (CSAI) Briefing on Dec. 3. Attended by 26 persons representing many of the UU congregations in the … Continue reading UUSJ Convenes Briefing on Congregational Study Action Issues
UUSJ has an ad in the Winter Issue of the UU World to increase national support through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). Please let us know if you are a CFC contributor by contacting Elizabeth at info@uusj.org, and consider donating to the work of UUSJ by choosing #17271 on your CFC form. Pass the message … Continue reading Do you give through the Combined Federal Campaign?
At Standing Rock… Terry Steichen of UU Congregation of Fairfax is visiting family in Bismarck, North Dakota, and will provide updates about what’s going on at Standing Rock via his blog. Check periodically for updates. In the meantime, he has compiled a list of trustworthy references for information about developments at Standing Rock. Green Souls … Continue reading UUs Involved in #NoDAPL
This is an edited version of a guest sermon delivered at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Montgomery, Alabama, on March 1, 2015. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the great novelist, is probably our country’s most acute observer of the rich. You may have heard one of his frequently quoted statements–“the very rich are different from you and … Continue reading What Is The Matter With Inequality? by Adam Wasserman UU Congregation Fairfax
On November 3, UUSJ members and supporters Allen Keiswetter and Lavona Grow of UU Church of Arlington, Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, Susan Rogers, and Doris Marlin of All Souls Church, Unitarian, delivered a letter from the UU Association President, Rev. Peter Morales, urging the US to encourage other nations to be more ambitious in addressing … Continue reading UUSJ Delivers UUA Letter on COP 22 Deliberations
Members of the UUSJ Immigration Task Group met with staff of Rep. Ted Deutch, Florida 21st District on November 15. Rep. Deutch is a strong supporter of the elimination of the “Immigration Detention Bed Mandate.” The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a 2009 statutory mandated quota to hold at least 34,000 individuals in … Continue reading UUSJ Capitol Hill Visit: Immigration Detention Bed Mandate
The team here at UUSJ would like to acknowledge the complex feelings folks are having and expressing that were evoked by the election outcome. For our part, we’ve found that being in community and renewing our solidarity has been the best succor and balm for the uncertainty we all feel. Now more than ever UUSJ … Continue reading UUSJ Responds to the Election Outcome
