- Alliance Against Farm Bill Offsets
Our organizations oppose offsets and carbon markets due to the adverse impact they have on Indigenous Peoples, farmers, rural and urban environmental justice communities, and our climate by promoting unsustainable agricultural practices, corporate and land consolidation, and dirty energy production.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/...
- A Bill For Every Community And Constituency, The Farm Bill
Urbanites have a lot at stake in the Farm Bill, plus it's likely the only social justice game in Washington until 2024 elections. Read this and understand how to approach this opportunity.
https://uusj.net/wp1/ministerial-fellow-kirk-...
- Called By Our Faith To Act For A Climate-Smart Farm Bill
What could possibly be in the Farm Bill that UUs care about? Clean water, nutritious food, preservation of soil and fertility, humane treatment of livestock and creating food for humans, not just feeding animals and making ethanol. Things that impact city dwellers daily.
https://uusj.net/wp1/called-by-our-faith-to-a...
- An Earth Day service
"Flamingo Theology and Climate Change.", a service message written by Rev. Robert Murphy.
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/Flamingo%20Theolo...
- ANARCHISTS AT WORK: MUTUAL AID AND ORGANIZED RELIGION
Mutual aid arrangements challenge dog-eat-dog economics and social Darwinism. Cooperation, coexistence, and personal engagement are important for many of today’s mutual aid activists. And, if you celebrate these values and virtues, maybe you're challenging the status quo.
https://www.religioussocialism.org/anarchists...
- See what the St. Petersburg UU does to memorialize deaths of the homeless.
Memorial service for homeless who passed away in St. Petersburg, FL order of service--traditionally done on the winter solsitice.
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/Memorial%20progra...
- Cindy Piester is back from COP27
Cindy recounts COP27 in an interview with Veterans for Peace on this podcast.
https://soundcloud.com/user-55976759/12822-ve...
- UUJEC Annual Fundraising Appeal
Read our 2022 Annual Appeal and our Review of Accomplishments.
https://uujec.org/membership
- View our Past Webinars
To view all of our earlier webinars, please use this link to visit our YouTube page.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNCt9Fah0qPk...
- Plastic is horrible!
There are several alternatives available.
https://www.disruptorleague.com/blog/2018/07/...
- UU Ministry for the Earth interviews Cindy Piester
Cindy has a lot of say about climate catastrophe and the military's contribution to it.
https://www.uumfe.org/2022/08/12/reflection-o...
- UUJEC Board Member, Cindy Piester
Watch as Cindy explains why we need the military to account for its carbon footprint. Cindy has been selected to go to Egypt to COP27.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofiMDu2lB2A
- Reparations
When the Interstate Highway system was built--the government frequently tore up Black neighborhoods destroying their commercial districts and they never adequately compensated those whose lives were uprooted.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/...
- Reparations
Here are three videos you'll want to see, if you're interested in reparations!
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/20-21.Reparations...
- UUJEC Invites You to Join Our Board
Serving on our board is a great way to connect with other UUs from across the continent who are actively working on social-justice issues and to keep our Association attentive to current issues and proactive in working for systemic change toward economic justice.
https://uujec.org/Governance
- UUJEC at General Assembly 2022
Watch our sponsored workshops and learn about our work on the Actions of Immediate Witness!
https://uujec.org/generalAssembly
- AFL-CIO Unions & UUs--a great match
AFL-CIO union values and UU values are almost a perfect match. You'd be amazed that two organizations could have so much in common. Our UU values were outlined in our Statements of Conscience. Check it out!
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/AFL-CIO%20and%20U...
- UUJEC's 2022 Letter to UUA board on the Ukrainian War
The UUA can speak for peace with justice and it can encourage support for both human rights and environmental protection work.
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/Susan%20Frederick...
- Healthcare Information Systems are outdated and require reform
Here's a published piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association co-written by UU Dr. William Yasnoff, MD.
Doctors require information to help patients get the best care available. Instead, information is random on often siloed in each providers own system.
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/Putting%20Health%...
- UUJEC Statement on Solidarity with Unions
We feel that the only way to balance plutocrats power is wide spread unions. See our statement and an offer to be a resource for Labor Sunday, September 4, 2022
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/UUJEC%20Labor%20S...
- Stop Medicare Privatization!
There's so much money in healthcare that Wall Street and the plutocracy are trying to find ways to capture this business. It must be stopped--it costs the Medicare fund more money and they give cheaper care.
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/Medicare%20for%20...
- AFL-CIO President's Thank You Letter to Rev Susan Frederick Gray.
A gracious letter thanking UUs for our support of the PRO Act, giving power to labor to balance the monstrous power of wealth.
https://uujec.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=X...
- Veterans target US Military's Outsized Impact on Climate Change
Article by UUJEC Board Member Cindy Piester: With no mention of military emissions at COP26, a coalition is mobilizing to force the Pentagon to disclose and reduce its enormous carbon footprint.
https://peaceandplanetnews.org/military-clima...
- An argument for degrowth.
Through the Eye of a Needle: An
Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the
Renewable Energy Transition.
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/Case%20for%20degr...
- UU Rev Robert Murphy writes about Religious Socialism
The roots of ecosocialist thinking go back to several places. History has many examples of worker and peasant uprisings. The Book of Exodus still inspires much of liberation theology. As the story goes, the government of Egypt collapsed after a series of plagues. Read the article and join Rev. Murphy and UUJEC's GA workshop on demand: Religion and Socialism.
https://www.religioussocialism.org/religious_...
- How do you reach UUs when disaster hits?
UUs and Disaster: what we do and contact information to donate or find help.
https://uujec.org/Portals/0/UUs%20and%20Disas...