May you feel grounded, renewed, and connected to something beyond yourself this season as we continue to work together towards justice in the New Year! While a single voice cannot fill the darkness, when we join together and mobilize to take a stand, bear witness, and advocate together, we can become the change we want … Continue reading Happy Holidays from UUSJ!
This past election, UUSJ broke new ground with the only UU multi-state voter mobilization effort in the nation. The initiative was grounded in our UU faith and the Fifth Principle, which supports the democratic process in our lives. In so doing, we met several strategic goals: we increased opportunities for collective UU action, we improved … Continue reading Small But Mighty: UUSJ Voter Mobilization Proves Itself
The new Administration has pledged to criminalize, detain and deport undocumented people at new levels that will tear families and communities apart. New initiatives and resources to resist any harmful and unjust policy proposals that further undermine due process and lead to racial profiling and discrimination are being planned, including Sanctuary in the Streets and … Continue reading Sanctuary Movement in the Trump Era: New Strategy and Tactics in the Post-Election Reality
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
