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This list includes every page or product with this tag from UUA.org, UU World magazine, or inSpirit books & gifts.

  • Urgent and empathetic, Entry Lessons is one of the first examinations of the lasting impact of incarceration on women and their families Available for preorder...
    Book | By Jorja Leap | December 8, 2022
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice, Social Justice
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  • Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior...
    Book | By Benjamin Van Rooij, Adam Fine | July 8, 2022
    Tagged as: Justice, Psychology, Science, Violence, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice
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  • Justice Gatson founded the Reale Justice Network in Kansas City, Missouri. Among other social justice issues, it focuses on ending the cash bail system, a national issue that disparately affects people of color.
    By Staff Writer | May 1, 2021 | From Ideas
    Tagged as: Health, Justice, Race/Ethnicity, Women, Criminal Justice
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  • The 2021-2022 UUA Common Read A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment...
    Book | By Zach Norris | January 15, 2021 | From Beacon Press
    Tagged as: Anti-Oppression, Authority, Community, Justice, Oppression, Anti-Oppression, Criminal Justice, Economic Justice, Social Justice
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  • BECAUSE Unitarian Universalist congregations covenant to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person, and to promote justice, equity and compassion in human relations, we proclaim loudly, Black Lives Matter! ...
    2020 | Action of Immediate Witness
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Criminal Justice, Due Process & Civil Liberties, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
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  • Book to note: Redemption Songs: A Year in the Life of a Community Prison Choir.
    By Staff Writer | June 1, 2020 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Arts & Music, Poverty, Criminal Justice
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  • "People of faith, particularly those of us who are white progressives, need to combat the systems of criminalization in our country. Systems of policing and criminalization in this country are inherently violent, steeped in and created to reinforce white supremacy, anti-blackness, and racialized...
    May 30, 2020 | From Love Resists
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, Criminal Justice
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  • Please join our ad-hoc group of Indigenous people and allies to urge your Members of Congress to take appropriate actions to protect the lives of our Indigenous loved ones – and all people – living in federal prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic.   ...
    May 15, 2020 | From Love Resists
    Tagged as: #LoveResists, Criminal Justice, Indigenous Rights
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  • A journalist on the front lines in a battle for criminal justice reform in Spokane, Washington.
    By Sandra Williams | September 1, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Justice, Race/Ethnicity, Criminal Justice
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  • General Assembly rallies with local activist groups against expansion of Spokane County Jail, raises almost $40,000 for community center.
    By Elaine McArdle | September 1, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Justice, Politics, Criminal Justice, General Assembly
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  • Chanting “End mass incarceration!” and “Schools not cells!” about 1,000 Unitarian Universalists gathered in a public park in Spokane, Washington, for the General Assembly 2019 public witness event.
    By Elaine McArdle | June 21, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Activism, Anti-Oppression, Justice, Solidarity, Criminal Justice
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  • The Church of the Larger Fellowship’s Worthy Now Prison Ministry serves nearly 1,000 people in prison. 
    By Kris Willcox | June 1, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice
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  • Two prison chaplains who minister together in Oregon’s only women’s prison discuss the need to end the prison-industrial complex and mass incarceration.
    By Elaine McArdle | June 1, 2019 | From Life
    Tagged as: Ministry, Criminal Justice
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  • The prison industrial complex is built upon a cycle of re-incarceration that it perpetuates. Many folks held in cages because of unaffordable bail are there because they are caught in a vicious cycle where they are being re-arrested for past challenges with unpaid fees/fines or court cases. (1) ...
    May 8, 2019 | From Love Resists
    Tagged as: #BlackLivesMatter, #EndMoneyBail, #LoveResists, #MothersDay, Criminal Justice, Racial Justice & Multicultural Ministries
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  • Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism drafts bylaws, introduces membership program, and works to end cash bail.
    By Elaine McArdle | April 24, 2019 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Community, Justice, Race/Ethnicity, UU Theology, Criminal Justice
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  • Gather a group in your community to participate in the BLUU Babies and Bailouts Watch Party and Donation Drive on Sunday, April 28 (or soon thereafter).
    April 8, 2019 | From Love Resists
    Tagged as: #LoveResists, Criminal Justice
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  • On any given night, more than 450,000 people who have not been convicted of any crime are incarcerated in the United States simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail.  ...
    March 5, 2019 | From Love Resists
    Tagged as: #LoveResists, Universalism, Criminal Justice
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  • As elections approach, Unitarian Universalists work to register voters, promote criminal justice reform, and re-enfranchise 1.5 million people in Florida.
    By Elaine McArdle | October 3, 2018 | From UU World
    Tagged as: Democracy, Justice, Politics, Criminal Justice, Voting Rights
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  • Issue 1, if passed, will dismantle much of the mass incarceration system in Ohio by reducing felony drug possession convictions to misdemeanors retroactively.  This aligns with our UU commitments to resist white supremacy, embody solidarity with those harmed by the prison system and prioritize...
    September 21, 2018 | From Justice and Inclusion
    Tagged as: Criminal Justice, Election Reform, Voting Rights
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  • Amendment 4, if passed, will have a huge impact byin enfranchising over 1.4 million people with past felony convictions.  This will dismantle Jim-Crow era laws which disproportionately target people of color. Amendment 4 aligns with our UU values of dignity and democratic process by allowing...
    September 21, 2018 | From Justice and Inclusion
    Tagged as: #LoveResists, Civil Rights & Religious Liberty, Criminal Justice, Voting Rights
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