On November 1, 2016, Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) President, Rev. Peter Morales, signed a letter to Jonathan Pershing, the U.S. Department of State Special Envoy for Climate Change. This letter comes three days before the International Paris Agreement on climate change goes into effect on November 4th, and approximately one week before the United Nations […]
October 2016: Letter to President Obama urging the administration to listen to the recommendations of the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Committee on Family Residential Centers. These recommendations were presented at its final meeting on October 7, 2016 and call for an immediate end to the practice of detaining Central American children and families seeking asylum […]
A small group of activists has just done something HUGE. Using a direct action tactic first used in North America last December to stop an Enbridge pipeline around the Quebec-Ontario border in Canada (link), activists have just stopped all four tar sands pipelines that run from the Alberta tar sands into the United States. https://twitter.com/valeriecosta/status/785859651791360000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E785859651791360000%7Ctwgr%5E393535353b636f6e74726f6c&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uuyacj.org%2Fnews–updates%2Fprevious%2F3 […]
A small group of activists has just done something HUGE. Using a direct action tactic first used in North America last December to stop an Enbridge pipeline around the Quebec-Ontario border in Canada (link), activists have just stopped all four tar sands pipelines that run from the Alberta tar sands into the United States. Actions […]
Today is Indigenous Peoples Day — a great day for solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. On August 30th, UUA President Peter Morales wrote, “I urge you to join the effort to bear public witness to the injustice in North Dakota and add your voice to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline”. The struggle of the […]
Photo courtesy of Gabriel Shapiro. The morning of October 5, UUYACJ member Lee Stewart locked himself to a tour bus carrying natural gas executives from Washington, D.C. to Cove Point, MD as part of an action with We Are Cove Point, a group acting to stop construction of a new liquefied natural gas export terminal. […]
Photo courtesy of Gabriel Shapiro. The morning of October 5, UUYACJ member Lee Stewart locked himself to a tour bus carrying natural gas executives from Washington, D.C. to Cove Point, MD as part of an action with We Are Cove Point, a group acting to stop construction of a new liquefied natural gas export terminal. […]
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submissions open through 11:59 PM Central Standard Time, October 19th, 2016 What is your vision for climate justice? What is your vision for getting there? The UU Young Adults for Climate Justice (UUYACJ) are seeking submissions for a graphic design contest: both free style designs and logo designs. Anyone is eligible to make a submission. […]
DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submissions open through 11:59 PM Central Standard Time, October 19th, 2016 What is your vision for climate justice? What is your vision for getting there? The UU Young Adults for Climate Justice (UUYACJ) are seeking submissions for a graphic design contest: both free style designs and logo designs. Anyone is eligible to make […]
Historic things are happening in Standing Rock Sioux (Lakota / Oceti Sakowin) territories, near the border of North and South Dakota. Thousands of people, primarily Native Americans, are camped out at the point where the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) construction easement intersects with the Missouri river, pledging unrelenting non-violent resistance to stop the pipeline from […]
