UUs for a Just Economic Community at virtual GA!
Meet & Greet with UUJEC
Wednesday, June 23
Action of Immediate Witness, AIW
UUJEC's AIW is in the development stage in this google doc. See here in a PDF. Please send comments at UUJEC@UUJEC.org. Thanks!
UUJEC Sponsored Workshops
Mutual Aid
"Nomadland" is the award-winning movie that has introduced millions of Americans to mutual aid practice. Many of us have learned about mutual aid work because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of climate change, poverty and neglect, and other economic problems. Mutual aid is a form of social insurance in which everybody gives and everybody receives in voluntary and reciprocal arrangements. This workshop will explain the importance of mutual aid work for today's Unitarian Universalist congregations. It's information that your congregation can use for economic justice.
Rev. Robert Murphy is a Unitarian Universalist minister emeritus in Florida. He was an SEIU business agent in Boston before entering the ministry. Bob is one of the Florida Gray Panthers who is active in programs for social and personal wellness.
Nancy Hoffman
Religion and Socialism
On Demand, watch it when you want to.
Socialism is back in the news and religious people are involved. This workshop focuses attention on the story of religious socialism in the United States with special attention given to the Unitarian Universalists. We'll examine our past, we'll look at race/class solidarity possibilities, and we'll conclude with some thoughts about liberal religion's future. How do we accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and in America's institutions? Liberation theology, environmental justice, and support for multigenerational cooperation and labor union organizing, will be some of the topics discussed by the speakers.
Rev. Judy Deutsch is a UU Minister Emerita who has been a member of DSA since its inception, and a member of its predecessor (DSOC) before that. She was chair of DSA's Religion and Socialism Commission for about 10 years, is on the Board of UUs for A Just Economic Community, and is chair of its Healthcare Task Force. She has been on the Board of the James Luther Adams Society for more than 40 years, and spends much of her time working for Medicare for All.
Rev. Robert Murphy is a Unitarian Universalist minister emeritus in Florida. He was an SEIU business agent in Boston before entering the ministry. Bob is one of the Florida Gray Panthers who is active in programs for social and personal wellness.
Dr. Daniel McKanan is the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. He is an authority on religious and social transformation movements in the United States. His book "Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition" is recommended for congregations that are involved in economic justice work.
Rev. Kimberly Q. Johnson
Rev. Kimberly Q. Johnson serves as minister of the UU Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton, NY. She also serves on the Steering Committee for UU Class Conversations. The Board of the UU Women’s Federation and the Organizing Collective Board of BLUU. Before ministry, Kimberly worked as a union organizer with the UAW.
Reparations
Reparations Rooted in Repair: The doctrine of discovery removed African peoples from their lands, their culture & nationhood and from the cover of GOD. Learn about the five major areas of injuries and strategies for repair of damages wrought by African Chattel Slavery. In this presentation, we expound on those injury areas and discuss local, state and national strategies, including N’COBRA, to repair individuals and culture and reshape institutions that financed the chattel slavery institutions.
Carl W. McCargo (M.S.) has been a UU for 34 years. He earned his M.S. in Clinical Psychology in 1981, entitled,
“The Differential Portrayal of Black and White Television Families.” Carl has an enduring concern for the insidious and overt ‘teachings’ of racism in our U.S. media