Opinion Articles on Social Justice topics
You and your passion for social justice, systems change, and dismantling the interlocking injustices of federal policy has kept me going. Especially when the tragedy of this pandemic and the travesty of police violence and racial injustice have put me on my back, … read more.
Our fundamental UU principles of acceptance of one another; justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; and the use of the democratic process in our society, are under attack, and we must defend them. In doing so we UUs, working together with the assistance of … read more.
At the heart of UUSJ’s economic justice work are three values–inclusion, equity, and opportunity–that interact closely with our UU principles.
These values dovetail what early thinkers in the field such as Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler, identified as “three essential and interdependent principles: Participative Justice (the … read more.
Chaplain Eleanor Piez, UU Community Minister. She served as Intern Minister with UUC of Annapolis and UU Legislative Ministry of MD and is currently affiliated with Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church, VA.
Keep breathing.
Keep breathing, everyone.
In my memory, I’ve never known so much public anxiety and fear … read more.
Our Unitarian Universalist faith calls us to fully examine the painful legacy of Christopher Columbus that displaced and disseminated generations of Native Americans and their rich cultures and societies. Our Principles require us to respect and learn from Indigenous Peoples and support their struggles … read more.
By Bennett Minton
A series of textbooks written for the fourth, seventh, and 11th grades taught a generation of Virginians our state’s history. Chapter 29 of the seventh-grade edition, titled “How the Negroes Lived Under Slavery,” included these sentences: … read more.
“One discovers the light in the darkness, that is what darkness is for, but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light.” James Baldwin
As Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ), we are called by our principles to promote social justice and to vehemently … read more.
And now we add Rayshard Brooks of Atlanta Georgia to the list…
The moving protests–in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought together young and old, working and retired, every ethnicity and racial background in the past weeks since the murders of George Floyd, Breonna … read more.
A couple of years ago, I was at a rally in front of the Maryland statehouse in Annapolis calling for stronger police accountability in cases of police brutality and misconduct. A local reporter, seeing my clergy collar, asked why I was there. I’m a former … read more.
The Rev. John L. Saxon, Executive Director of the UU Justice Ministry of North Carolina, at the annual HKonJMoral March in Raleigh in February 2019.
I recently returned from walking for 18 days and 275 miles through the mountains of northeastern Portugal and northwestern Spain—my third … read more.
