WHEREAS, since World War II, the United States has spent $1.3 trillion and misdirected its industrial capacity to remain number one among nations in military power; and

WHEREAS, during these same years the United States has not reached its potential in meeting many of the most vital human needs of some of its own people and the peoples of the world; and

WHEREAS, the perspective of women is seldom represented on bodies where the subject of disarmament is under consideration;

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1976 General Assembly of the Unitarian Univeralist Association calls upon its members, societies and the people of the United States to implement disarmament and social justice now. This action will include:

1. Promoting the representation of women on all United States agencies and committees involved with disarmament;
2. Reducing the 1976-77 total military portion of the United States Federal Budget by 10 percent, and shifting this sum to meet the enormous, accumulated unmet economic and social needs (e.g. environment, education, health, housing, jobs and transportation) of the American people;
3. Taking substantial independent initiatives toward nuclear disarmament and challenging the Soviet Union to take reciprocal initiatives; and calling for a suitable disarmament forum of all nations, and submitting at that forum comprehensive proposals for general and complete disarmament;
4. Planning for the conversion of industries which are currently producing military products to the production of civilian goods and services.