People’s Climate March Makes History! UUs marched in NYC to affirm a new commitment to work towards a sustainable, just, and fossil-fuel free future. Reports on attendance vary from 310,000 to 400,000 in NYC. About 10,000 marched in the Interfaith contingent; of these, about 1,500 were Unitarian Universalists (the second largest faith group after the […]
By Florence Caplow, 2014-15 intern minister at Quimper UU Fellowship, Pt. Townsend, WA. She chronicles the launch of the Lummi Indian Nation’s 5000-mile Totem Pole Journey to the Canadian tar sands to draw attention to the negative effects of fossil fuel extraction on many Native American lands. Several members of the Lummi Nation participated in […]
July 2014: To Detroit Mayor Michael Duggan, DWSD Director Sue McCormick, and Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr asking them to restore water to the most vulnerable households in Detroit and to stop further shutoffs to those households. UUSC and UUA originated petition.
Monday, July 14, 2014 – a message from Pamela Sparr Associate Director for Advocacy, Activism, and Engagement, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Two weeks ago, we launched a petition protesting Detroit water shutoffs. More than 4,000 people have already signed. Join us! Sign the petition today. Our goal is to have a total of 5,000 signatures by the end […]
June 2014: To the International Declaration on the Future of the Arctic, authored by Greenpeace.
Many people who do not live in Detroit perceive the city as an example of the nation’s despair and the demise of “The American Dream.” Yet, Detroit proved a perfect setting for what later may be seen as a watershed event in UU history. Thirty UU leaders from around the nation recently came away from […]
In March 2014, UU leaders from across the country met in Detroit, MI, to engage in deep conversation about how the social justice issues that UUs care about so passionately all intersect with environmental/ecological justice issues. The group worked to understand and embrace this critical, foundational relationship that will inform and aid our response to […]
By Sarah Caine, former UUMFE Young Adult Board member and Starr King seminarian Louisville is an honest and proud city. There are markers for historical events and places throughout the Downtown area, some marking moments of enlightenment, some marking darker parts of history such as a former slave auction site. I was in Louisville during […]
Michael O’Kelly, retired UU Minister, sent UUMFE this climate justice-themed poem. He is the author of three volumes of poetry – Sympathies: The Aoide Protocol (iUniverse, June 2014); Altarpieces: Structures of Poetry and Spiritual Thinking (iUniverse, May 2011); and Glistenings: Till Death Do Us Part (Xlibris, Corp., April 2010). He lives in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Fault serves in an insane […]
Faithful Response: Antiracism from Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy & Beyond, co-sponsored with UU Trauma Response Ministries and the Central East Regional group. Participants will learn how the structures of racism and interlocking oppressions inequitably affect recovery efforts and the UU way to respond . Singing for Our Lives with Sandy O and Pat Humphries of emma’s revolution, […]
