Our congregations are uniquely positioned and resourced to be agents of change. Developing and refining our organizing skills will help us be more efficient and effective in our efforts!
Organize for “No Kings”
On October 18, we rise. Not to defend broken systems, but to defend each other.On October 18, 2025 we rise. Not to defend broken systems, but to defend each other.
The UUA is an official partner of the No Kings National Day of Mobilization on Saturday, October 18. Building on the momentum from the first No Kings protests in June, we are mobilizing for another mass day of resistance, resilience, and action.Because our communities deserve more than fear,
Connect with Other UU Activists
The GatheringFortifying Ourselves for the Long Road Ahead
The Gathering is a new monthly virtual event from Side With Love, designed to offer:
- Spiritual Grounding – Strengthen your heart and spirit for the work ahead.
- Political Analysis – Understand the threats to democracy and justice.
- Collective Action – Organize with others to block anti-democratic forces and build a just and loving world.
Train Your Organizing Team
It Starts With FaithOrganizing School for Teams
9-session faith organizing training series designed to build faith-rooted organizing teams that are committed to dismantling white supremacy and taking action
Organizing on the Side of LoveTools and Tips for Interconnection and Impact
Community Organizing Tools and Tips for Interconnection and Impact.
Tools and Practices for Organizers
Spiritual Discernment and Preparation for Collective Action
Effective justice action requires risk, courage and discernment. Here are tips and tools for resilient and sustained activism.
Safer & More Powerful Together: Power & Relationship Mapping Your Community
Learn some frameworks for mapping relationships and potential partnerships in your community, as well as identifying how to identify allies, targets, and opponents as your work in coalition toward particular goals.
How to Create a Mutual Aid Networkfrom the American Friends Service Committee
By forming mutual aid networks, we can take immediate action while continuing to advocate for change. Mutual aid builds solidarity, helping everyone involved by creating new communities of care with our neighbors to redistribute wealth and share skills and material resources with those who need help.
The Real Rules: Congregations and the IRS Guidelines On Advocacy, Lobbying, and ElectionsIRS Guidelines On Advocacy, Lobbying, and Elections
Religious individuals and groups have played a prophetic role in public life throughout history by calling attention to oppression, demanding change, and holding leaders and institutions accountable.
Books on Community Organizing
- Building Up a New World by Anne Dunlap, Vahisha Hasan
Stories, practical wisdom, and diverse perspectives, including: Organizing Congregations for Impact, Building a Just Economy, Resisting White Nationalism, From Potluck to Policy Reform, etc. - Social Change Now by Deepa Iyer
To engage in social change at this moment in time requires consistent attention, deep reflection, and committed collective action. This powerful roadmap is for individuals and organizations who are ready to deepen their commitment to social justice. - Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, Maya Schenwar, Harsha Walia
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. - Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything by Becky Bond, Zack Exley
Lessons from the groundbreaking grassroots campaign that helped launch a new political revolution. - This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century by Mark Engler, Paul Engler
Nonviolence is usually seen simply as a philosophy or moral code. This Is an Uprising shows how it can instead be deployed as a method of political conflict, disruption, and escalation. It argues that if we are always taken by surprise by dramatic outbreaks of revolt, we pass up the chance to truly understand how social transformation happens.