If “nobody’s free until everybody’s free,” shouldn’t we be… Advocates for Collective Liberation? In our recent 2024 Annual Report, you may have noticed mention of Collective Liberation, a term I’ve been using with, and introducing to, UUSJ supporters for several years. However, while related to that mention, this post comes in happy response to the … Continue reading Advocates for Collective Liberation?
Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist, academic, and artist: “If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Icon: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” Opal Lee, … Continue reading Collective Liberation: What it Means, A Summary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 21, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesús | info@uusj.org Share: https://bit.ly/UUSJ-PR_BidenOut As Biden Withdraws, Our Focus Remains The Same We want Americans to vote and need voters to defend our democracy Washington, D.C. — Following reports and announcement that President Joe Biden has exited the 2024 presidential campaign, Pablo DeJesús, Executive Director … Continue reading Press Release: President Biden withdraws from the 2024 race, July 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 18, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesus | info@uusj.org Share | https://bit.ly/BidenEO2_UUSJ Gratified with the President’s Executive Action for Immigrant Families Improving Visas and DACA is a meaningful way to say Families Matter. Washington, D.C. — Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice is pleased with President Biden for issuing an executive action that might prove … Continue reading Press Release: Biden’s Executive Action for Immigrant Spouses of U.S. Citizens and DACA, June 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesus | info@uusj.org Share | https://bit.ly/UUSJ_DACA-12yrs The President should strengthen and defend DACA Dreamers and other DACA recipients have been waiting 4,383 days and counting. Washington, D.C. — Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice is saddened that yet another Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) anniversary has arrived without … Continue reading 12th Anniversary of DACA, June 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesus | info@uusj.org Share | https://bit.ly/BidenEO_UUSJ Disagreement With the President’s Executive Action on Asylum Closing the U.S.-Mexico is not a faithful solution. Washington, D.C. — Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice is profoundly disappointed in President Biden for issuing an executive action that functionally closes the U.S.-Mexico border to asylees, people … Continue reading Press Release: Biden’s Executive Action on Asylum, June 2024
Noticeable UU support for Haiti During early April 2024 UUSJ joined an Interfaith Immigration Coalition (IIC) letter with more than 250 Faith Leaders and Organizations, directed to the White House and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, on the matter of the cirisis in Haiti. The letter urges the Administration to take immediate … Continue reading UU solidarity from across the U.S. for Haiti
Noticeable UU support for Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas An essential effort during March 2024 centered on the response to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton taking action to shut down Annunciation House. This Catholic humanitarian organization has provided hospitality and other life-saving services to migrants for decades. In reply, 268 faith leaders and 165 … Continue reading UU solidarity from across the U.S. for Annunciation House
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 29, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesús | info@uusj.org Link: https://bit.ly/VRAA-BlessedLiberty Voting Rights is a Blessed Liberty Congress must pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Washington, D.C. – Today, the Senate reintroduced the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023, offering its companion to H.R. 14. … Continue reading Voting Rights is a Blessed Liberty, Congress must pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 5, 2024 Contact: Pablo DeJesús | info@uusj.org | (202) 600 – 9132 Bill offers some positive provisions but overall sets up a contest of compassion between those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border and all others Washington, DC— UUSJ opposes the Senate Supplemental funding proposal which, in our view, would advance … Continue reading Senators announce funding deal that undermines Asylum
