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, President Ford's program of conditional clemency and earned re-entry for draft evaders and deserters of the Indochina War has failed in a large majority of cases to aid those it was purported to help and has failed to meet the moral issue of reuniting our people without moralistic...

WHEREAS, the war and the collapse of the government in South Vietnam have left that part of the nation with every second person a refugee and every fifth child an orphan; and WHEREAS, the million refugees of this March and April were unable to harvest spring crops, and starvation is currently...

WHEREAS, real peace in Vietnam is of primary importance and killings and destruction must be ended, and the continued military support of both North and South Vietnam contributes to prolonging the strife; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1974 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urg...

WHEREAS, hundreds of thousands of Americans have unjustly suffered a loss of civil rights, liberty and jobs because they have been in opposition to the Indochina War or to the racism and oppression of the American military and draft systems; and WHEREAS, according to Canadian Department of...

APPALLED that the administration in Washington, instead of taking advantage of such opportunities as partial withdrawal from Vietnam, and possible arms reduction by SALT and the UN Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, has increased the Defense Department budget by $4 billion and is plannin...

WHEREAS, napalm and other incendiary weapons have been used during and since World War II; and WHEREAS, we recognize the desirability of general and complete disarmament and the urgent need to abolish war; and WHEREAS, we welcome the recent report of the Secretary General of the United Nations on...

WHEREAS, the United States has been responsible for death, destruction and defoliation in Southeast Asia; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1973 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association: Condemns the continued bombing of Cambodia and Laos, and supports the Congressional cut-off of all fu...

WHEREAS, improved cultural and economic relations with China and Cuba may decrease tension and lead to diplomatic recognition of those countries by the government of the United States; BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1973 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association expresses its support o...

WHEREAS, the mining of Haiphong and six other North Vietnamese harbors, and the resumption of heavy, indiscriminate bombing of North Vietnam are attacks of military aggression undertaken in the spring of 1972 by the United States government; and WHEREAS, these military actions occur at a time whe...

WHEREAS, the International Covenants on Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 stress the importance of nations in upholding, protecting and extending the rights of human beings the world over; and WHEREAS, the recognition and approval of those covenants are...

WHEREAS, the telephone excise tax was levied specifically by Congress in 1966 to finance the war in Vietnam; and WHEREAS, those voting in favor of the following do so with the intention of refusing payment of the federal excise tax on telephones; BE IT RESOLVED: That the delegates of the 1972...

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...

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...

CONVINCED that human survival depends on the abolition of war as a means of settling disputes among nations; AWARE that human well-being depends on diverting to human needs the vast amounts now spent on weapons; BELIEVING that peoples everywhere yearn for an end to conflict and a beginning toward...

DEPLORING the fact that over two-thirds of the federal budget for fiscal year 1969 was allotted to military expenditures and that national resources of scientific knowledge and skills are being largely devoted to military research; CONVINCED that such major problems as poverty, environmental...

DEPRESSED AND HEARTSICK at the continued killing and maiming in Vietnam; REVOLTED by the Song My massacre, which is only one in a series of war crimes, and the resumption of bombing in North Vietnam; SUPPORTING the opinion of most expert observers that "Vietnamization" is an impossible concept an...

WHEREAS, we recognize the greatly increased interdependence of the peoples of the world, in this nuclear age; WHEREAS, we realize that the common interests of men can only be served through world cooperation; WHEREAS, we believe that we can best serve our local, state and national communities whe...

BE IT RESOLVED: That the 1969 General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association opposes the development, construction, and deployment of any anti-ballistic missile system, and urges the United States and House of Representatives to oppose the funding of the Safeguard program. THE 1968...

PREAMBLE We religious liberals of several backgrounds and cultures seek to strengthen the United Nations in its efforts to eliminate war, discrimination, poverty, and disease by reaffirming our belief in the essential unity of the human family....