The UUMFE team has been BUSY and we can’t wait to share with you our learnings and dreamings from ClimateWeekNYC. Thank you all for your support. Climate Week might be over, but the work is not! CLICK HERE to read the entire newsletter. Climate Week DebriefOctober 3 | 7pm ET / 6CT / 5MT / …
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In October we will share our plate with Hawkwing, a Connecticut-based organization that, for more than twenty years, has served the people of the Cheyenne River Sioux/Lakota Tribe in South Dakota to help the people on the reservation overcome generational poverty and adversity and empower them to enhance health and education, end hunger, and bring clean water. Founder Rochelle …
Next meeting scheduled for Sunday, Oct 1, 11:45am in the Living Room. All are welcome to join us. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Mary Strieff and she will put you on the email list for future action alerts. “Bridges Not Battle Lines”
You are invited to join SUUS member Beth Skudder and Moms Demand Action in the Guilford Fair Parade this Saturday morning. March in the parade this Saturday, September 16. We will meet by 9:45 am on Whitfield Street, then march around the green to the Keeping Society, about a mile of flat walking at a …
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The Tree of Life Educational Fund is a non-profit founded by Old Lyme Congregational minister Rev. David Good to support international, interfaith educational tours and conferences in the Holy Land and America, to allow Americans and others to witness human rights abuses in Israel/Palestine and to observe and support the work of peacemakers. The Tree of …
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In response to the recent wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, UUSC President and Lead Executive Officer Mary Katherine Morn issued the following statement: “We are deeply saddened by this turn of events and we are committed to being in solidarity with the communities most impacted by these fires. The patterns of disparity, displacement, …
“Working with Labor” is a video produced for the 2023 General Assembly. Clayola Brown, President of A Philip Randolph Institute , a long standing constituency group of the AFL-CIO. She met with Unitarian Universalists to discuss anti-racism work, support for LGBTQ plus rights, immigration, and other shared justice issues. We encourage Unitarian Universalists to watch …
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We will share the plate in July and August with Call to Care Uganda, whose mission is to supply villages in Uganda with clean, potable water . As Martha Hoffman, founder and executive director of the organization, says, “Every living person deserves to live in dignity and absolutely with the right to water.” With the ongoing support …
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Last Wednesday, the Senate unanimously voted to pass H.B. 6607, the “Lights Out CT” bill! This is a MAJOR step forward in protecting birds ~ and all of us ~ against light pollution. Connecticut is now the third state in the nation to have a comprehensive Lights Out bill to protect migratory birds and local ecosystems from the harmful effects …