Our Unitarian Universalist Association Bylaws (as revised in June 2024) include an expression of who we are, focusing on our shared values – Equity, Generosity, Interdependence, Justice, Pluralism, and Transformation – and centering around Love.  You can read the full text of our values here.

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General Assembly 2025 Ware Lecturer Announced!  

Visionary.  Journalist.  Changemaker.  Imara Jones is Our 2025 Ware Lecturer!

Every year, the GA Planning Committee invites a speaker who is not UU to share a message with us.  Imara Jones is an award-winning journalist, thought-leader, and changemaker, who is known for challenging conventional thinking and inspiring bold action to transform our world.

Please read more about Imara here.

And here are some other UUA resources relevant to these times:

General Assembly 2025 will be a multiplatform event!  GA registration, choir registration, and housing reservations are open now. Please click here to see the schedule, including in-person, virtual, and multiplatform events and workshops.  Click here for more information.

The UUA offers several ways for UUs to engage in the work of justice in our world.  Each has opportunities for learning and action!

Be Part of Your UUA’s Social Witness Processes!

The UUA Commission on Social Witness oversees the collective social witness process among Unitarian Universalist Association member congregations and groups.  Their mission is to amplify emerging social action, promote connections, and nurture accountable social witness across the Association.  They facilitate two different types of social witness statements: Statements of Conscience (SOCs), which arise from Congregational Study/Action Issues (CSAIs), and Actions of Immediate Witness (AIWs).

Congregation Study/Action Items:

Three proposed CSAIs passed the congregational vote, so they will be admitted to the agenda for the UUA General Assembly 2025.  The three moving forward are:

• Housing: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Thursday, April 10
• Fat Liberation: Building Justice and Liberation for Large Bodies, Thursday, April 17
• Abolition As Faith Formation, Tuesday, April 22

The next stage of this process is that we will hold on-line, zoom feedback sessions so congregants from across the country can join in to hear more about each of the CSAIs and offer comments and feedback.  The dates of the Feedback Sessions are next to each of the CSAIs and the zoom links will be published soon!

Learn About Congregational Study Action Issues and the process for 2024-2025.

Actions of Immediate Witness:

There’s lots to take action about these days.  If you want UU’s across the country to support your justice efforts, consider submitting an AIW for this year’s General Assembly.  

March 18: Submission for draft AIWs opens.  Any AIWs submitted between March 18th and April 12th will receive CSW feedback.  This allows submitters to get feedback about whether they meet criteria, and an opportunity to revise if needed.

After April 12: any submissions after April 12th will continue through the process only if they meet all the criteria without revision.   

Friday, May 12 – Deadline for proposed AIWs. These will be posted and distributed to congregations.

Details can be found here. [3/12/25]

Love Resists activates people of faith and conscience to resist the harm inflicted by criminalization, to create safer, more just, welcoming, and sustainable communities.  Click here to learn about current actions, and to download resources and tools to bring the Love Resists campaign to your community by expanding sanctuary, growing solidarity, and raising your voice.

• Community Resilience Hub
• ICE and Immigration Enforcement in Congregations
• Expanding Sanctuary
• Wisdom and inspiration from UUA President, the Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt. [2/18/25]

UUs support the use of inclusive democratic processes to make decisions within our congregations, our Association, and society at large, and UU the Vote engages in year-round movement-building work toward building a truly inclusive democracy.  Wisconsin is a key state for UU the Vote’s action initiatives.  Click here to learn how you can get involved in getting out the vote.

Click here to find out more about WUUSAN our state-wide organization.

A public advocacy campaign that seeks to harness love’s power to stop oppression, with four intersectional justice priorities: 

Climate Justice, Decriminalization, Democracy, and Reproductive Justice & Trans Rights.  Click here to learn more.  We build strong movements when we take action together.  Organize teams and networks that can take these actions together, and get support on practical organizing skills and support at our Organizing School and Skill Up resources.  Side with Love offers two ways to take concrete action:

Weekly Action Update features essential resources, upcoming events, and spiritual reflection to support work across our intersectional priority areas.  Click here to view this week’s update!

The Gathering – second Mondays at 7:00 pm – a new monthly virtual event designed to offer:

• Spiritual grounding – strengthen your heart and spirit for the work ahead
• Political analysis – understand the threats to democracy and justice
• Collective action – organize with others to block anti-democratic forces and build a just and loving world

Click here for more information and to register to receive the Zoom link for The Gathering.

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