General Assembly 2008 Event 2009 On February 12, 2009, we'll celebrate the birthday bicentennial of two of the most influential men of the 19th century—Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. The first was the father of racial equality in America....

General Assembly 2000 Event 251 Presenters: Mimi LaValley, Melanie Griffin Mimi LaValley, member of the Young Religious Unitarian Universalist (YRUU) Steering Committee, and Melanie Griffin, who has been active in YRUU doing anti-racism work for the last year, led a workshop entitled "Continuing ...

General Assembly 2007 Event 4021 Susan Leslie, Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Congregational Advocacy and Witness director, introduced Community Based Organizing advocates Mary Croom Fontenet, Reverend Steve Crump, and Reverend Tony Johnson in this Saturday morning gathering of interest...

General Assembly 2007 Event 3065 Presenter: William E. Cross, Jr., The Graduate Center, City University of New York Dr. William Cross gave an exciting and compelling session on social mobility in the past and today. He started by reminding the audience that most Unitarian Universalist's have...

General Assembly 2007 Event 3010 Speaker: Jorge Zeballos, Diversity Consultant One of eighteen workshop sponsored by the General Assembly Planning Committee for the 2007 General Assembly (GA), this one was brought to us through the joint efforts of Diverse and Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist...

General Assembly 2007 Event 3019 Workshop Presenter Sherrilyn Ifill is the author of On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century. She is a civil rights attorney and a professor of law at the University of Maryland. Whites and blacks had different memories of...

General Assembly 2007 Event 3082 Presenter: Rev....

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BECAUSE Unitarian Universalists (UUs) believe in the “inherent worth and dignity of every person,” and in the “use of the democratic process” in society at large; WHEREAS the U.S. Supreme Court decision of January 21, 2010, in Citizens United v. FEC enshrined corporations as persons and...

BECAUSE our Unitarian Universalist Principles affirm “the inherent worth and dignity of every person” and call for “justice, equity and compassion in human relations” and BECAUSE our denomination has a long history of opposing racism and sexism; WHEREAS full-time supermarket workers in...

Aware of our interdependence, we acknowledge that eating ethically requires us to be mindful of the miracle of life we share with all beings....

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Most companies, like people, have a mix of strengths and opportunities for improvement. Companies’ mixed records can make it challenging for investors (and their managers) to determine whether they meet their social values, as well as their financial objectives. A growing number of benchmarks,...

WHEREAS we have heard your excellent report and its insight into the need for universal healthcare: BE IT RESOLVED, in accordance with the eighteen resolutions of the UUA [Unitarian Universalist Association] from 1961 to 2007 and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that the ...

Because: Unitarian Universalists as a community of faith respect the interdependent web of all existence, of which we are a part; Whereas: The 2006 UUA [Unitarian Universalist Association] General Assembly adopted the Statement of Conscience on Global Warming and Climate Change; Whereas: Wind pow...

Because: Unitarian Universalists as a community of faith uphold the inherent worth, rights and dignity of all people; Whereas: We have supported a fair minimum wage since 1961, passing a resolution supporting an agricultural minimum wage for migrant workers, and since then our sustained commitmen...

Because: Unitarian Universalists affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person; the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large; the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all and respect for ...

Whereas: Unitarian Universalists are concerned with the worth and dignity of all people; Whereas: We spend over $2 trillion for health care in the United States, yet 50 million people are still not covered and another 50 million are denied adequate care by their insurance companies; Whereas: Heal...

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 Largo....