Advancing Economic and Climate Justice as a Moral Issue, Building a Movement for a “Green New Deal” Sunday, September 15-Tuesday 17, 2019 Washington, DC Advocacy Conference on Environmental Justice, Class and Race by UUs for Just Economic Community, UU Ministry for Earth, UUs for Social Justice, All Souls Church, Unitarian, UU Service Committee, UUA and Side […]
Dear friend, We need your support. Please consider this invitation to become a Friend of INITC — the InterNātional Initiative for Transformative Collaboration. Emerging from partnerships formed at the Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock in 2016, Unitarian Universalists accepted the invitation to be friends, relatives, and collaborators with Indigenous elders and leaders through INITC […]
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) General Assembly (GA) is a massive, multi-layered event with thousands of people having widely-varying experiences. It’s impossible for me to paint the full picture for you. Thankfully, much of what happened at GA can be viewed online — though much of it cannot. Below is a highlight of 2019 GA […]
[This blog post is the third story about UUMFE’s Justice for Each Generation Speaking Tour. Follow the links to read Part 1 and Part 2, and please consider donating to the Faithify campaign to Catalyze the UU Climate Justice Movement!] Levi & Leigh-Ann Draheim, Leonard Higgins and I had a whale of a time visiting […]
The UUMFE Justice for Each Generation Speaking Tour began in Portland, Oregon on June 6th, with a delicious vegan potluck and evening presentation. Levi began the evening with a presentation about how climate change is impacting his home in Indian Harbor Beach, Florida, about the Juliana v U.S. lawsuit, and about what we all can […]
What a week it has been! Wow. There are so many updates to give about the UUMFE Justice for Each Generation speaking tour, but the place to begin is with the Juliana v US lawsuit’s 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing and the support rally that took place on June 4th in Portland, Oregon. Here […]
This bill requires the President to develop and annually update a plan for the United States to meet its nationally determined contribution under the Paris Agreement on climate change. The plan must describe steps to (1) cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26%-28% below 2005 levels by 2025, and (2) confirm that other parties to the […]
June 4, 2019 was first day of a movement building and fundraising tour through Oregon and Washington for the UU Ministry for Earth & Create Climate Justice initiative with Levi Draheim, his mom Leigh-Ann Draheim, and “valve-turner” UUMFE Board member Leonard Higgins. We gave talks at seven UU churches in the time between the […]
Hello, dear UU sisters and brothers my name is Sheldon Cohen. I am a long-standing member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Silver Spring in Maryland. I have been working in the environmental conservation field all over the world for over 35 years. I’ve witnessed, firsthand, the destructive impacts of climate change on the natural […]
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Lincoln Green Sanctuary committee members are not short on accomplishments. They’ve been advising on the Mayor’s Environmental Task Force on Land Use, Water, Waste and Transportation since long before Lincoln committed to achieve a 26% greenhouse gas reduction below 2005 levels by 2025. That is the baseline commitment made by […]
