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Social Justice

Welcome to the Unitarian Universalist Association's (UUA's) Social Justice pages, maintained by the Advocacy & Witness staff group. We exist to represent Unitarian Universalist (UU) values in public discourse and to help congregations be more effective in their social justice work.

Our Top Resources

Standing on the Side of Love: a campaign to mobilize UUs and allies in response to identity-based violence, exclusion and oppression
The Real Rules (online) (PDF, 20 pages) (Word): IRS Guidelines on Congregational Advocacy, Lobbying, and Election Work
Inspired Faith, Effective Action (PDF, 31 pages) (Word): a handbook on more effective congregational social justice
Social Justice Empowerment Workshop: Weekend workshop led by trained UU facilitators to start, strengthen, and grow congregational social justice ministries; handbook available online.
Congregation-Based Community Organizing (CBCO): diverse grassroots organizing that increases social integration and improvement
Socially Responsible Investing: to ensure that our investments are reasonably consistent with our values
Calendar: important dates for social justice and diversity

Additional materials can be found on our Resources page, as well as from the Office of International Resources, and the Holdeen India Program.

Take Action Now

Action Center: for actions on a number of our issue priorities

Issue Priorities

We work on a number of social justice Issues, of which our top priorities are:

Comprehensive immigration reform
Equal rights for bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender people
Environmental justice
Reproductive justice with a focus on comprehensive sex education

Social Justice Statements & Process

Search the Social Justice Statements that UU congregations have approved over the years, and participate in our ongoing Social Witness Process. The two current issues are Peacemaking and Ethical Eating.

More Ways to Connect

Subscribe to our Justice Action News Lists.
Read our staff blog, Inspired Faith, Effective Action.
Become a fan of our A&W Facebook page.
We're on Twitter!

For more information contact socialjustice @ uua.org.

Last updated on Thursday, October 29, 2009.

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