What a tumultuous year it has been for those of us who focus on climate justice! And for those most impacted on the frontlines of climate change. As each day passes, I am filled with an even greater sense of urgency. We are engaged in a sacred struggle, in extraordinary times. Climate justice can be […]
I am distressed and motivated to work even harder for climate justice after seeing the devastation and displacement from the California wildfires and reading the recent climate reports from the United Nations and our US government agencies. I know that many thousands of Unitarian Universalists share the same determination to connect for the support of just […]
Environmentalists fear that the health of 160,000 people could be at risk. When Hurricane/Storm Florence dumped an average of 17.5 inches of rain over 14,000 square miles in September, ash dumps breached along the Cape Fear and in the city of Goldsboro a hundred miles north. Dozens of hog-waste lagoons overflowed, dispensing from one cesspool alone […]
UU Young Adults for Climate Justice and Partners Focus on Action and Healing Risk-Taking & Law-Breaking: Faith-Inspired Civil Disobedience Thursday, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Room 2501-A Presented by Side with Love & UU Young Adults for Climate Justice Unitarian Universalists historically and today have taken action for justice with an understanding that it is just to break an […]
Six Standing Rock elders and Oceti Sakowin representatives are coming to Kansas City and planning to attend UUA General Assembly, presenting a double-workshop on Saturday, and also a public event on Sunday evening. Only 7 days remain in the Faithify campaign. Though the campaign is half way to the official goal of $3,500, the stretch goal is […]
Steep mountains, narrow valleys and a deadly train of storms came together in West Virginia to cause horrendous flooding that killed 23 people last week, forced thousands to evacuate and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes and businesses. Disaster Areas have been declared for 44 or the 55 counties in the state. FEMA and the […]
By Irene Keim, UU Church in the Pines, Brooksville, FL and UUMFE Board Chair (05/2013) In February 2013, three accomplished keynote speakers from three different disciplines and participants from many UU congregations in Florida came together to explore ways we can connect the dots to heal ourselves and our world in the face of social, […]
