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Annie Hanley-Miller reports from the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) Activate New Orleans program– Ed. Building Community Overcomes Difference by Annie Hanley–Miller I brought back many things to my home community from my experience at Activate NOLA. It was an intense...
By Ted Resnikoff | September 30, 2015 | From Stories and Voices -
"What do you do when you come head to head with the very evil you are working against?" Jack Spector-Bishop reports from the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) Activate Southwest Border program– Ed. “The ants crawl under it, the birds fly around it, the sky connects over...
By Ted Resnikoff | September 28, 2015 | From Stories and Voices -
By guest blogger Amelia Diehl . -ed I am so grateful to have been able to attend the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice's Grounded and Resilient Organizer’s Workshop Climate Justice Training in Chicago, IL and feel connected again to a community and to a movement. I think I might...
By Elizabeth Nguyen | August 28, 2015 | From Issues and Trends -
So, lots of folks in the progressive world I inhabit on social media had a lot of opinions about Bernie Sanders went to speak to a crowd about social security and medicare and was interrupted by Black Lives Matter movement the day before the first Unitarian Universalist minister, and a middle cla...
By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | August 17, 2015 | From Guides and Tools -
Unitarian Universalists are showing up to commemorate this event that pushed UUs have gathered to be in Ferguson on this anniversary, invited by interfaith organizers. Others marched in their home communities, LGBTQ+first principle is that we believe everyone has inherent worth and dignity, we...
By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | August 13, 2015 | From Social Justice -
A Day of Civil Disobedience for Social Justice @RevElizabethNUUAUnitarian Universalists, local congregations, and others participated in acts of resistance to mark the anniversary of the death of Michael Brown. This day of resistance was the result of organizing for social justice and change that...
By Elizabeth Nguyen | August 11, 2015 | From Youth and Young Adults of Color -
Read the inside story from Youth Caucus 2015 Co-Business Manager Isabelle McCurdy on how the Youth Caucus sponsored Action of Immediate Witness, "Support Black Lives Matter" came to be. When Kara Marler, my Sr....
By Ted Resnikoff | August 7, 2015 | From General Assembly for Youth & Young Adults -
Know it to Defeat it By Aija Jansone The Young Adult program at Westside Unitarian Universalist in Fort Worth, TexasDallas-Fort Worth area. The program started with a 6 month series focused on the various facets of privil…; and oppression…;, …;, classreligionsexualityracismUnitarian...
By Ted Resnikoff | August 3, 2015 | From Issues and Trends -
UU young adult activist suspends their body to slow arctic oil drilling "This is a personal issue for me because of my faith; I'm actually a Unitarian Universalist seminarian," begins Elizabeth Mount explaining why they're willing to Willamette River in Portland, Oregon....
By Annie Gonzalez Milliken | July 30, 2015 | From Issues and Trends -
Kenny Wiley responds to #IfIDieInPoliceCustody offering, "We are all gifted, and we are all flawed. I can speak and write well, and I also have depression and let friends and family down all the time. I should not need to be perfect in order to matter. Sandra Bland was not perfect, and she...
By Elizabeth Nguyen | July 23, 2015 | From Youth and Young Adults of Color