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  • WHEREAS our Unitarian Universalist Principles call us to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person and to promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; WHEREAS HIV/AIDS is one of the most devastating crises in the history of public health, causing 25 million deaths and n...
    2003 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice, Reproductive Health, International Engagement & Building Peace
  • Summary of the Statement of Conscience While economic globalization has helped some people attain higher standards of living, it has marginalized and impoverished many others and has resulted in environmental degradation and the depletion of natural resources....
    2003 | Statement of Conscience
    Tagged as: Economic Justice, Socially Responsible Investing
  • WHEREAS our Unitarian Universalist Principles call upon us to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person and to seek justice, equity, and compassion in human relations; and WHEREAS in the past four decades the Unitarian Universalist Association and its member congregations...
    2003 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Gender Justice, International Human Rights & Justice, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • 2002 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict, International Engagement & Building Peace
  • Background: This final draft Statement of Conscience of the Unitarian Universalist Association builds upon four social witness statements on drug policy adopted by the Unitarian Universalist Association between 1965 and 1991. In June 2000, the General Assembly of the UUA selected "Alternatives to...
    2002 | Statement of Conscience
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • Mindful of the connection between Beacon Press book sales and Beacon Press deficits and heeding the admonitions of the UUA Finance Committee and our President that the publication of unsold books is neither useful to our mission or supportive of our finances; We, the representatives of the member...
    2002 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Beliefs & Principles
  • Because Unitarian Universalists affirm and promote the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all; and Because our Unitarian Universalist Principles affirm "respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part"; and Whereas many biologists predict that ...
    2002 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Climate & Environmental Justice
  • Whereas on July 11, 2001, Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced H.R. 2459, a bill to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace, which would embody a broad-based approach to peaceful, non-violent conflict resolution at both domestic and international levels; Whereas the bill would establish a...
    2002 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • Because for the past three decades Unitarian Universalist congregations in Canada and in the United States have spoken out in favor of the rights of bisexual, gay, lesbian, and transgender persons and against homophobia and all forms of discrimination against such persons on the basis of their...
    2002 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Marriage Equality, LGBTQ Welcome & Equality
  • Because Unitarian Universalists affirm and promote the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all and challenge the powers and structures of evil with justice, compassion, and love; and Whereas the International Criminal Court, as the first permanent international institutio...
    2002 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: International Peace & Conflict
  • In response to the moderator's report, moved that this General Assembly direct the Unitarian Universalist Association's Board of Trustees and administration to establish formal relationships with the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media as models for local Unitarian Universalist...
    2001 | Responsive Resolution
    Tagged as: Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Racial Justice
  • Preface Material comforts that we enjoy in the United States and Canada come at a greater cost than we often realize. Our two countries, together with other industrial nations, consume a disproportionately large share of the natural resource base that sustains life on earth....
    2001 | Statement of Conscience
    Tagged as: Climate & Environmental Justice
  • Whereas our Unitarian Universalist Principles call us to affirm and promote “justice, equity, and compassion in human relations” and “the goal of world community”; Whereas a 1997 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly resolution stated that, “because of the impact of racism on all people,...
    2001 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
  • Guided by our commitment to justice and by the findings and recommendations of The Tulsa Race Riot, A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921; and Because our Tulsan Unitarian Universalist forebears witnessed an atrocity of ethnic cleansing for which we are responsi...
    2001 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries, Racial Justice
  • For decades, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to religious groups to provide social services. However, to protect their integrity and the interests of taxpayers, religious groups until now have created separate, secular entities to receive the public funds....
    2001 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Church & State, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty
  • Whereas the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) make loans to developing nations to help stabilize their currencies and to develop their resources such as transportation, hydroelectricity, and water supply; Whereas many projects did not increase productive capacity enough to repay th...
    2001 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Economic Justice
  • Scope: US As the 39th Annual General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association held its Opening Ceremony the evening of June 22, 2000, Gary Graham was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, the 222nd person to be executed in Texas since that state reinstated the death penalty...
    2000 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice, Religious & Civil Liberties
  • Scope: US The health and integrity of the American democracy at the national, state, and local levels depends, in large measure, on fair and open elections that command public confidence and encourage full citizen participation....
    2000 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Election Reform
  • We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, hereby rededicate ourselves to the pursuit of economic justice, an end to racism, and an end to poverty. We recognize that racism is a major contributor toward economic injustice....
    2000 | Statement of Conscience
    Tagged as: Economic Justice, Racial Justice
  • Scope: Continental On April 26, 2000, the exiled Tibetan government issued a report on Environment and Development Issues since the invasion of Tibet by China in 1949, documenting widespread environmental damage from mining, deforestation, colonization, development, permanent military and nuclear...
    2000 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: International Human Rights & Justice, Religious & Civil Liberties