Social Justice

October 2023 Share the Plate: Hawkwing

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 …

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SEPTEMBER Share The Plate – Tree of Life Educational Fund

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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UUJEC offers “Working With Labor” Event on August 24

“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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birds during golden hour

Many Thanks from Lights Out CT!

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 …

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