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  • BELIEVING: That the rights of human beings include the rights to minimum income, adequate housing and legal services and dignity in old age; and BELIEVING: That it is the responsibility of government to secure, protect and defend these rights, and to provide appropriate services to implement them...
    1971 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Economic Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
  • BE IT RESOLVED: The Tenth General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urges the President of the United States: To order the Joint Chiefs of Staff to issue a cease-fire to all American troops in Southeast Asia immediately; also, to announce and plan a complete and immediate withdra...
    1971 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • CONVINCED: That a federally sponsored health insurance plan has become mandatory in view of the fact that the health care costs have continued to soar; BE IT RESOLVED: That the Tenth General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urges all member societies to support a National Health...
    1971 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Reproductive Health
  • Denominational division and polarization on the issue of how best to right racism because of these divisions have gone on long enough; Dilution of UUA efforts to fight racism because of these divisions have gone on long enough; BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That it is the intense desire of this Assem...
    1971 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Racial Justice
  • RECOGNIZING: That the rapid increase of violent crime accompanies a vast public ignorance and prejudice about its causes and methods of correction as seen by modern experts; NOTING: That the majority of persons arrested are males between 10-30 years suffering such social injustices as poverty,...
    1971 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • IN VIEW OF, the widespread and serious problem of pollution of our land, air and water; IN VIEW OF, the rapid depletion of many of our non-renewable natural resources and the dangerous exploitation of our renewable resources; and IN VIEW OF, the declining quality of life in our towns and cities w...
    1971 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Climate & Environmental Justice
  • WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association opposes any kind of surveillance of private citizens or government employees; and WHEREAS, we feel that such surveillance leads to a potential for control and intimidation that is alien to our form of government and foreign to a society of free men ...
    1971 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • RECOGNIZING: That there is widespread need for child care centers, that millions of children in North America are receiving either substandard supervision or no supervision; AWARE: That growing numbers of mothers take jobs because of economic necessity, desire for job training and continuing...
    1971 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Children & Youth Reproductive Justice, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Justice
  • BECAUSE the Canadian Council of Churches' 1969 estimate of the number of United States military refugees and draft resisters was 60,000 with projections of 20,000 per year together with substantial numbers of similar expatriates in other countries; and BECAUSE most of these young men left the Uni...
    1971 | Business Resolution
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association go on record as being disturbed by the inadequacies of current public education and supportive of new educational programs; That local societies work to make available their physical facilities and moral support to persons interested in...
    1971 | General Resolution
    Tagged as: Reproductive Health