BELIEVING: That the rights of human beings include the rights to minimum income, adequate housing and legal services and dignity in old age; and BELIEVING: That it is the responsibility of government to secure, protect and defend these rights, and to provide appropriate services to implement them...

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 a federally sponsored health insurance plan has become mandatory in view of the fact that the health care costs have continued to soar; BE IT RESOLVED: That the Tenth General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association urges all member societies to support a National Health...

Denominational division and polarization on the issue of how best to right racism because of these divisions have gone on long enough; Dilution of UUA efforts to fight racism because of these divisions have gone on long enough; BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED: That it is the intense desire of this Assem...

RECOGNIZING: That the rapid increase of violent crime accompanies a vast public ignorance and prejudice about its causes and methods of correction as seen by modern experts; NOTING: That the majority of persons arrested are males between 10-30 years suffering such social injustices as poverty,...

IN VIEW OF, the widespread and serious problem of pollution of our land, air and water; IN VIEW OF, the rapid depletion of many of our non-renewable natural resources and the dangerous exploitation of our renewable resources; and IN VIEW OF, the declining quality of life in our towns and cities w...

WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association opposes any kind of surveillance of private citizens or government employees; and WHEREAS, we feel that such surveillance leads to a potential for control and intimidation that is alien to our form of government and foreign to a society of free men ...

RECOGNIZING: That there is widespread need for child care centers, that millions of children in North America are receiving either substandard supervision or no supervision; AWARE: That growing numbers of mothers take jobs because of economic necessity, desire for job training and continuing...

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: That the Unitarian Universalist Association go on record as being disturbed by the inadequacies of current public education and supportive of new educational programs; That local societies work to make available their physical facilities and moral support to persons interested in...

WHEREAS, private schools are springing up in many parts of the country under church sponsorship with the aim of avoiding desegregation of public schools, thus subverting the Supreme Court order for immediate desegregation; and WHEREAS, the Unitarian Universalist Association has repeatedly affirme...

WHEREAS, two hundred scientists from fifty different countries meeting in Paris in the fall of 1968 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Social and Cultural Organization came to the conclusion that within a period of approximately twenty years the life process on earth will be seriou...

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...

OBSERVING: That for seventy years the citizens of the District of Columbia enjoyed local home rule, then in the troubled period following the Civil War, Congress abolished the elected local government and since that time has exercised detailed control of the District's affairs; NOTING: That the...

SHARING the fears of such authorities as Arthur Goldberg and Roy Wilkins, etc., regarding governmental terror campaigns against dissenting groups; ACKNOWLEDGING the findings of the federal grand jury that local police and federal government agencies conspired to conceal evidence of an illegal pol...

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...

WHEREAS, the present local, state or provincial and federal laws in the United States and Canada regarding the growing, sale, trade, possession and consumption of cannibus sativa (marijuana) are based largely on public hysteria and myth, rather than on any established data about the effects of...

The thrust of continental policy is now, as it has been historically, the steady expropriation of Indian land and water resources for the benefit of whites in the United States. The practice has been to locate the Indians on the most arid and least productive land. In Canada, Native treaty rights...

In keeping with the long-standing moral commitment of Unitarian Universalists expressed by the 1966 General Assembly in its Statement of Consensus on Racial Justice, which pledges us "to work to eliminate all vestiges of discrimination and segregation in (our) churches and fellowships. . . and to...