Archive: Social Action News

  • IJTF Writes Community Sign-On Letter Urging the Biden Administration To Stop Expelling Migrants at the Border April 7, 2021 - Like many at UUCUC, the Immigration Justice Task Force (IJTF) has been watching the challenges at the U.S. / Mexico Border. We know that spring surges like the one currently happening are not new. Last year, the Trump administration used the spring surge and the pandemic as an excuse to apply Title 42, an outdated health code, to effectively close the border.
  • International Transgender Day of Invisibility March 22, 2021 - International Transgender Day of Visibility is an annual event occurring on March 31. It is a time to celebrate transgender and non-binary people around the globe and acknowledge the courage it takes to live openly and authentically.
  • LGBTQ Welcome Renewal March 3, 2021 - 2020. The UUA now requires annual application for this designation. We first became a Welcoming Congregation in 1999.
  • Join the Green UUs Mailing List! February 3, 2021 - Are you concerned about climate change, environmental degradation, and/or climate and environmental justice? Maybe you just want to know how to live a greener lifestyle. Rev. Caplow and Nan Holda are on a mission to re-ignite and re-envision the UUCUC green team. If you want to help with this initiative or just stay up to … Continue reading Join the Green UUs Mailing List!
  • 2021 Social Action Offering Organizations Finalized November 25, 2020 - Congratulations to our 2021 Shared Offering Organizations and thank you to everyone who participated in the process! Our Shared Offering Task Force: Jim Hannum, Sandy Hannum, Pat McClard, and April Ayers appreciate your help in choosing a few of the many deserving organizations that are working to promote social, racial, and environmental justice in both … Continue reading 2021 Social Action Offering Organizations Finalized
  • IJTF Seeks Donations November 4, 2020 - On Monday, November 16, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm, the Immigration Justice Task Force (IJTF) is hosting a virtual meeting to ask for volunteers to help carry out our hospitality / emergency refuge program, approved at this year’s annual meeting. Volunteering is a terrific way to get involved without having to go to meetings!
  • Intersex Day of Remembrance on November 8 November 4, 2020 - rom Wikipedia: While Intersex Awareness Day on October 26 appears to be celebrated more in English-speaking countries, particularly in North America, Intersex Day of Remembrance has been marked mostly in Europe. Some countries, such as Australia and South Africa, mark both events and the days between as "14 days of intersex". It marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person whose memoirs were later published by Michel Foucault in Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite.
  • Guest at Your Table: a Program of the UUSC October 28, 2020 - More than 80 years ago in 1939, the Unitarian Service Committee began its justice work. The inspiration for this program came from two Unitarian leaders who risked a great deal to save people from the dangers of the growing Nazi regime. Their goal was to coordinate the social action and social justice work of the … Continue reading Guest at Your Table: a Program of the UUSC
  • November 2020 Shared Offering: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee October 28, 2020 - During the month of November, our monthly social action offering will support the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. UUSC is a 4-star nonprofit organization that strives to center the voices of people most affected by injustice. They create relationships with frontline grassroots movements across the world that support marginalized communities. This work is especially important during this … Continue reading November 2020 Shared Offering: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
  • Intersex Awareness Day is October 26 October 21, 2020 - From Wikipedia: “Intersex Awareness Day is an international day of grass-roots action to end shame, secrecy and unwanted genital cosmetic surgeries on intersex children. The day also provides an opportunity for reflection and political action… Intersex people are individuals born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies.” As taught in the UUA Transforming Hearts Collective course, intersex people are an example of how the biological gender binary is not absolutely true.