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UUYACJ Movement Training Workshop Series
UUYACJ Movement Training Workshop Series Saturday, March 26th Saturday, April 2nd Saturday, April 9th This workshop series was inspired by this year’s Spring For Change theme, “Get Rooted, Get Ready.” It is a space for young adults who are looking to deepen their connection to activism and build tangible skills into their justice work. […]
Introducing Zoë Johnston, New UUYACJ Network Coordinator
Hello all! My name is Zoë Johnston and I’m the new Network Coordinator for UU Young Adults for Climate Justice. I’ve been a participant of the network for over a year and am eager to hold this role. I currently attend Arcadia University outside of Philadelphia and am majoring in International Studies with a minor […]
Reflections from Outgoing Network Coordinator Amelia Diehl
NOTE: This first message originally appeared in the Create Climate Justice newsletter. UUs showed up for climate justice in deep ways at this year’s virtual General Assembly (stay tuned for recordings to be made public after Labor Day) — including an impressive and emergent rapid response mobilization from Young Adults, building off of decades of […]
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Defund Police for Climate Justice: Write a Letter to NoDAPL Political Prisoners
A few weeks ago, UU young adults and allies gathered to write letters to Indigenous water protectors who have been targeted for their activism and are still behind bars. Grounding together in song, meditation and discussion, we were joined by Rev. Karen Van Fossan, who shared about UU NoDAPL Political Prisoners solidarity work. While UUs […]
UU Young Adults are invited to participate in the UUYACJ Political Education & Book Club: an opportunity to deepen our political education and reflect together in community.
Our most recent reads including Afterglow and All We Can Save We host our book clubs roughly once a year, either in the fall or the spring. We’re getting ready to announce our fall book club read, so stay tuned!
Previous UUYACJ Book Club selections (in addition to this list, be sure to check out UUMFE’s Recommended Books):
- Afterglow edited by Grist
- All We Can Save by by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Stolen Future, Broken Present: the Human Significance of Climate Change by David Collings
- No Condition is Permanent, 19 Poets on Climate Justice and Change
- Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
- When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
Amelia Diehl Begins 300-Mile Walking Journey to the United Nations COP23 Climate Talks
Today, UU Young Adults for Climate Justice leader Amelia Diehl is beginning her walking journey from Paris, France to the site of the 23rd United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP23).
About UU Young Adults for Climate Justice
Our mission is to grow a diverse network of Unitarian Universalist young adult activists grounded in faith, supported by each other and the UU community at large, and working together for climate justice.
Our vision is that our individual and collective actions catalyze the movement for a socially just, resilient, and sustainable future.
Our members are young adults, aged 18-35, who are climate justice activists with some connection to the Unitarian Universalist faith.
Get Connected
- Fill out the form above to get on the mailing list!
- Join the UUYACJ Facebook Group
- Like the UUYACJ Facebook Page
- Follow UUYACJ on Instagram
Our History
UUYACJ was founded in 2012 by UU Ministry for Earth with the support of the UU Funding Program. In our first few years, we focused on building community through offering workshops at regional UU young adult gatherings and the annual Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, which we have continued to do every year.
Our first network coordinator was Rev. Jennifer Nordstrom, followed by Curtis Murphy of Ontario (2013-2014), and Aly Tharp of Texas (September 2014 to 2021), who went on to serve as UUMFE Programs Director until 2022.
From 2021 – 2024, UUYACJ was supported young adult UUMFE staff member, Zoë Johnston who worked with a core team of young adults spread across North America.
In fall 2014, UUYACJ adopted a unique and consensus-based model for directly-democratic decision making among members, and shortly thereafter adopted our first continental campaign—100 Worship Services for Climate Justice—as part of the denomination-wide Commit2Respond climate justice campaign, of which UUYACJ served as a sponsoring leader.
In August 2015, we helped to create GROW Climate Justice—the first UU-sponsored skill-building workshop for young adult climate justice activism, with the UU College of Social Justice. In February 2016, we began a Climate Justice Book Club. Read our stories!
Our logo was created by Gaby Lamoureux.
Help us Grow!
Can you help us grow by making a donation or taking a special collection?
UU Young Adults for Climate Justice is a diverse network of UU activists aged 18 to 35 who support each other in engaging in direct action campaigns, leading worship services, educating ourselves and the wider UU world, mobilizing and organizing UUs for the work of climate justice, and more. This group is on hiatus for now (June 2024). Stay tuned for more soon!
More about the network
Launched in 2012, UUYACJ is made up of a core team of committed leaders plus a wide-ranging membership, utilizing a consensus-based model for directly-democratic decision making. We’ve organized trainings and workshops on climate justice, a book club, and a climate justice worship services campaign. Learn more!
