Category: Environmental Justice

So Goes West Virginia…

April 11, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Congregational Trip, Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, West Virginia, Youth

In mid-July of 2017, a group of teenagers and adults from the UU Church of Delaware County will visit West Virginia on a UUCSJ Youth Service Journey. In part of the preparation for this pilot program, last week I had the immense pleasure of visiting West Virginia, and meeting with a host of congregations, faith […]

Let’s Get Ready – to March, to Resist, to Declare Our Conscience!

January 19, 2017 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, First Nations, Immigration, Pastoral, Sanctuary and Solidarity

by Angela Kelly Ready or not, here we are, on the eve of an Inauguration so many of us are dreading. We are painfully aware of the threats posed by the incoming President to the rights, safety, and dignity of so many, to the future of our planet, and to values we cherish deep in […]

Let’s Get Ready: Resources for Finding Our Way Forward

December 16, 2016 | Heather Vickery | Economic Justice, Environmental Justice, First Nations, Immigration, Pastoral, Racial Justice, Sanctuary and Solidarity

by Chris Casuccio and Angela Kelly We’re a month in and a month out. It’s been a little over a month since the election, and we have a little more than a month to go before the inauguration. As we attempt to find our bearings and head towards the first 100 days of the new […]

Call to Standing Rock: Dec. 4th Interfaith Day of Prayer

November 22, 2016 | Heather Vickery | Environmental Justice, First Nations

As the courageous Water Protectors at Standing Rock face escalated acts of violent repression, we at UUCSJ continue to be deeply moved by the power of the #NoDAPL movement. We are especially grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Rev. Karen Van Fossan of the UU Fellowship of Bismarck-Mandan and other UU leaders who have […]

Standing in Solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux – What We Can Do

October 28, 2016 | Deva Jones | Environmental Justice, First Nations

Over the last few months, many of us have been moved by following the powerful movement of indigenous leaders defending sacred land, and the earth and water we all share, from the threat of the dangerous Dakota Access Pipeline. In recent days, we have also watched with horror as our computer screens have increasingly filled […]

The Earth is Alive

May 20, 2016 | Heather Vickery | Environmental Justice, First Nations

Barbara Walden, a member of First Unitarian Church in Portland Oregon, was part of the College of Social Justice’s April Solidarity with Original Nations and Peoples delegation to the Lummi Nation in Bellingham Washington. “It seems to me that anyone who cares to really think about the planet today has to hold both of these things […]

Earth Day Renews Momentum in the Movement for Climate Justice – Learn More at Activate Boston this Summer!

May 6, 2016 | Heather Vickery | Environmental Justice, Youth

Last month, hundreds of UU activists from across Massachusetts commemorated Earth Day by opening a new season of resistance to the Boston-area West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline, part of a sustained and growing climate justice campaign to disrupt the dangerous expansion of the fracked gas infrastructure and fossil fuel economy that threatens us all. Over the last year and […]

Whiteness and Apocalypse

September 25, 2015 | Deva Jones | Environmental Justice, GROW, Young Adult

This post was written by Amelia Diehl and originally posted on Blue Boat. I am so grateful to have been able to attend the Unitarian Universalist College of Social Justice‘s Grounded and Resilient Organizer’s Workshop Climate Justice Training in Chicago, IL and feel connected again to a community and to a movement. I think I might have learned more about […]

Protecting Cherry Point

June 2, 2015 | Deva Jones | Environmental Justice, First Nations

Jesse Ford of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis presents Lummi Hereditary Chief Bill James with their letter of solidarity and a handmade challis. The following letter was presented by Jesse Ford, representing the UU Fellowship of Corvallis, to Lummi Hereditary Chief, Bill James, as part of the “Solidarity with Original Nations and Peoples” program […]

In Solidarity with Original Nations and Peoples

May 29, 2015 | Deva Jones | Environmental Justice, First Nations

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