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Highlights of UUSJ’s Get Out the Vote Efforts

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Highlights of UUSJ’s Get Out the Vote Efforts Interest in this year’s midterm elections was unusually high all across the nation. UUSJ’s voter mobilization and Get-Out-the-Vote project contributed to UU engagement by expanding partnerships, connecting individuals and congregations with justice initiatives, and preparing a new resource to support dialogue with candidates on key issues. The … Continue reading Highlights of UUSJ’s Get Out the Vote Efforts

Phone Banking for Electoral Justice

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Information and Training Webinar Phone Banking for Electoral Justice Thursday, October 18th at 8:00 PM EDT  Click here to sign up. As the 2018 midterm elections draw near, we are keenly aware of the UU commitment to electoral justice!       Join this webinar, sponsored by UUSJ and the Reeb Voting Rights Project (All Souls Unitarian), … Continue reading Phone Banking for Electoral Justice

Michael Thoryn on Advocacy Corps – Trying to Make a Difference

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  Reflection based on comments at Cedar Lane, Sunday service, 8/12/18 In December, the Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ) Capitol Hill Advocacy Corps visited Congressional offices to encourage signatures on a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. The issue was protecting Dreamers . . . young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. … Continue reading Michael Thoryn on Advocacy Corps – Trying to Make a Difference

Eleanor Piez on the Federal Policy of Separating Families

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The federal policy of separating families – children from parents, income-earners from dependents – is not new. In June, it jumped into bold relief with the U.S. Department of Justice’s action to criminalize people for exercising their right to seek asylum, then incarcerate them without tracking where they and their children were sent. But detention, … Continue reading Eleanor Piez on the Federal Policy of Separating Families

UUSJ Capitol Hill Advocacy Corps Information Sessions

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updated February 23, 2019 We offer periodic information session on the UUSJ Capitol Hill Advocacy Corps. See information below for the next scheduled sessions. Our Advocacy Corps makes regular visits to Members of Congress and their staff on the second Tuesday of the month at 9:30am-12:30pm on priority issues of immigration, environmental and climate justice, … Continue reading UUSJ Capitol Hill Advocacy Corps Information Sessions

Elisabeth Geschiere on “Why I Believe Nonviolent Direct Action* is Imperative”

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I was listening to a 2015 speech by former California congress member and former Oakland mayor Ron Dellums, who died recently of cancer, called “Vietnam: The Power of Protest.” He shared how young people have asked him about the difference between his generation–the generation of the Black Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War protests–and … Continue reading Elisabeth Geschiere on “Why I Believe Nonviolent Direct Action* is Imperative”

Rev. Tanner on “I Was A Wearied Kind of Ready: Lessons from Poor People’s Campaign”

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Sitting in the hot tent I could feel the damp air rising from the ground while I held my two-week old baby.  I found myself in an unintentional sauna in DC. Just two hours before, 25,000 people gathered across the National Mall for the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival (PPC: NCMR). … Continue reading Rev. Tanner on “I Was A Wearied Kind of Ready: Lessons from Poor People’s Campaign”