WHEREAS, the current tax structure in the United States is both unfair and inequitable, favoring the rich (and especially the "Super-Rich") at the expense of the working class, the poor, the unemployed, and the elderly (especially those on fixed incomes); and WHEREAS, our major cities, and some...

WHEREAS, Philip L....

WHEREAS, Senate Bill #1, the Criminal Justice Reform Act of 1975, in attempting to reform the outdated US Criminal Code, has presented us with an unparalleled threat to individual liberties, especially in disregard of the First Amendment; and WHEREAS, the bill is a massive, complicated measure so...

WHEREAS, recently the Justice Department of the United States, at the direct urging of President Ford, first considered, then rejected a plan to intervene actively to limit school busing, one of the few substantive remedies ever put into effect to combat school segregation; and WHEREAS, this has...

WHEREAS, Dennis Banks is acknowledged by many Native Americans to be a militant leader in the struggle for justice in the cause of Native American rights; and WHEREAS, Dennis Banks has fled from convictions on a charge of riot and a charge of assault stemming from his involvement in an incident i...

WHEREAS, women in the middle years and older are confronted by the double discrimination of ageism and sexism, and feel the negative effects of age discrimination at an earlier age than men, so there is a double standard of Agriculture in our society; WHEREAS, women live longer than men, and wome...

WHEREAS, the electric power industry in the US and Canada has proposed a huge program of constructing nuclear power plants as an answer to the problems caused by the growing shortage of petroleum and the pollution caused by old-fashioned coal-burning plants; and WHEREAS, scientific hopes that...

WHEREAS, nearly three out of four murders are impulsively committed by previously law-abiding citizens during arguments with family members or their acquaintances; WHEREAS, for every robber stopped by a homeowner with a handgun, four homeowners or members of their family are killed in gun acciden...

Because of our concern for freedom of conscience and the respect which should be accorded all persons at time of death, and because of our belief that people should be able to choose under fair and informed circumstances funeral arrangements which are in accord with their own personal, financial,...

WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association has supported the right of farm workers to organize into a union for the purposes of collective bargaining with their employers, and has specifically supported the nonviolent efforts of the United Farm Workers of America; and WHEREAS, the ten-year...

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 o...

WHEREAS, safe air to breathe and safe water to drink are essential to life; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1976 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association strongly urges that the federal Environmental Protection Agency adopt promptly standards and regulations that will minimize the...

WHEREAS, it has become public knowledge, as a result of investigative journalism and of subsequent Congressional hearings, that government agencies including the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Internal Revenue Service have indulged in illegal activities or the misuse of otherwis...