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Grants available for local action to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery At www.uua.org/ga/past/2012/index.shtml">Justice GA 2012 in Phoenix, delegates voted to repudiate the doctrine that Europeans used as legal justification for conquest and colonization of the Americas. The GA resolution...

Rev. Abhi Janamanchi, Minister at Unitarian Universalists of Clearwater, Florida, write that as Unitarian Universalsits it is when the tigers are circling that we mustn't forget to savor the present moment, and "taste the strawberries". With Falling Into the Sky, the new meditation anthology from...

Protections extended to Native American, LGBT and immigrant women. Re-authorization of the Violen… Against Women Act (VAWA), which expired in October, 2011, passed after a lengthy political fight over protecting more women in cases of domestic abuse or rape. Read the full story...

Rev. Pamela Barz is the Unitarian Universalist (UU) Chaplain at WellesleyThe Eliot Church of South Natick on January 20, 2013. – Ed. Students at Wellesley come to talk to me for a variety of reasons. Some for ones you’d expect. They’re homesick. They have roommate problems. They’re...

The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) plans to review its policy banning LGBTQ membership or participation in May of this year stands in contrast to the Girl Scouts of America (GSA) policy of not discriminating against LGBTQ membership. GSA policy with regard to the sexual orientation of its members,...

This story is re-posted from Boston.comEmerson College fraternity members raise money for one brother’s gender reassignment surgery By Martin Finucane, Boston Globe Staff Members of an www.emerson.edu/">Emerson College fraternity are raising money so one of the fraternity brothers who is...

The United States Supreme Court is set to hear a challenges to California State Proposition 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act – both of which restrict the definition of marriage as a union between one woman and one man – toward the end of March, 2013, with a decision likely near the end...

In support of Common Read 2013 of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander, Blue Boat brings you news and information on the inequities of the burgeoning penal system in the United States and some lesser-known consequences of living with a criminal...

Pennsylvania UU continues decade-long quest to prevent gun violence.

Spring/Summer 2013 Youth Ministry Updates Webinar for Religious Educators, Youth Advisors, and Youth Join us for an hour webinar on Wednesday, February 27th at 2:00 pm Eastern -OR- 8:00 pm Eastern for new developments in youth ministry available this spring and summer....

“The military is widely understood to be the most racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse institution in the U.S.", notes The Rev. Sarah Lammert, director of Ministries and Faith Development for the Unitarian Universalist Association, and president-elect of the National Conference of...

The recent liberalization of military policy toward greater equality for all service members is example of what happens when people speak out against inequity. After Barack Obama's re-election, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta moved to end discrimination against women in the military by opening...

Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Vassar College on Thursday, February 28. Students at Vassar are mounting a response (read how you can help them http://blueboat.blogs.uua.org/oncampus/vassar-westboro-baptist-church/"…;). – Ed. Illogic of Westboro Church Teachings provokes defections...

Sex, Love, and Violence: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in a Globalized World Unitarian Universalist–United Nations Office. This year 175 youth, young adults, and adults will come together April 4–6, 2013 to learn about and dialogue around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer...

Some of you may have heard that the Westboro Baptist Church is coming to VassarVassarDoSomethingVCwww.glsen.org/hudsonvalley">Hudson Valley Chapter of GLSEN.

Sexual Orientation Change Efforts (SOCE) is the innocent enough sounding term for practices that are designed to force people to give-up same sex orientation. The techniques employed to force individuals to renounce their freely chosen sexual identity can be psychological or physical, and include...

Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists. Join other UU young adults for this mini climate justice training and organizing workshop. We will explore how UU values call us to ecological justice work: How does the climate crisis intersect with race and class? How are we connected to...

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