CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES
Practice the Practice: Experiential Education Pedagogy for Religious Professionals
ONGOING
UU Stop Cop City Weekly Action Huddle
Thursdays, 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern/ 2:00-3:00 PM Central/ 1:00-2:00 PM Mountain/ 12:00-1:00 PM Pacific
Join the UUA’s Side With Love weekly huddle to review what we’ve done, who’s doing what, and what’s coming up for Cop City Vote and Stop Cop City more broadly. Join us to get activated or to jump back in. Can’t ever make this time, but want to get involved? Message love@uua.org to get connected. SIGN UP HERE
PAST PROGRAMS
2024 Multigenerational Seminar
The 2024 UN Multigenerational Seminar seeks to honor the complexity of the global concepts and systems underlying the keynote address through making the time and space to: reflect and process, examine our own understandings of global solidarity, empire and the UN, and create the relationships, political analysis, and spiritual strength to help us practice solidarity moving forward. It was held September 21-22 online and New York City.
The 2025 UN Multigenerational Seminar will be held on-line only and will center partners heading to the UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30) convening in November 2025 in Brazil.
The 2026 UN Multigenerational Seminar will return to NYC in Spring and be held in conjunction with the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
Cristosal Global School of Human Rights
UUCSJ in collaboration with Cristosal offers experiential learning opportunities that explore the difficulties of forced migration. Watch this video to learn more about the experiences of two congregations who made the journey in September. Interested in scheduling a journey with your group? Email us at info@uucsj.org.
UU Climate Justice Revival
Reimagine Together: From An Extractive Age to a New Era
September 28-29, 2024
We know what the climate change systems of harm and extraction look like – what would a future look like if love was at the center of our actions against those injustices? Come together with your community and fellow UUs to envision that world and identify actions that will help bring that vision to life.
Climate change has the same root causes as health disparities, poverty, criminalization, immigration, and most of our society’s problems. Extractive systems, like the fossil fuels industry, take from the Earth, destroy our communities with pollution, disproportionately harm marginalized communities, and increase the inequities that drive racism, sexism, classism, and more. To shift from an extractive age to a new era means we must reject the broader systems of harm like capitalism and white supremacy to realize a future where all communities thrive. This rejection of systems that take, destroy, and harm necessitates a shift towards connection, nourishment, and communities of care. As we come together for the UU Climate Justice Revival, we will join in conversations, worship, laughter, joy, and hopefulness that facilitate this kind of massive culture shift.
Institutional sponsors include: Unitarian Universalist Association – UU Service Committee – UU College of Social Justice – Side With Love – UUs for Social Justice – UU Ministry for Earth – UU The Vote // Click here for a full list of sponsors!
World Human Rights Day Teach-In
On December 10, 2023, UUSC and the UU College of Social Justice held a World Human Rights Day teach in honor of the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In the teach-in participants learned about the context of its creation, grieved the on-going violations of these rights, and recommitted to global solidarity practices that bring us closer to the promise of world where the worth, dignity, and power of everyone is respected. Human Rights organizers, scholars, and advocates led the group through an essential time of learning and grounding.
BorderLinks Immersion Journey
JUNE 2023
Read about our most recent delegation with BorderLinks in the UUSC blog, titled My Life at BorderLinks: Understanding Life for Immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border. UUCSJ in collaboration with BorderLinks offers experiential learning opportunities that explore the difficulties of migration and life along the U.S./Mexico border.
GROW Fellowship Winter/Spring 2023
JANUARY – MAY 2023
Grounded and Resilient Organizer Workshop is a virtual cohort of cultural workers, organizers and clergy (ages 18-35) who are engaged in campaigns, base-building, art making and community care for justice. This season’s GROW cohort met each Tuesday for four moon cycles focusing on the themes of Governance & Care, Conflict, Land Resources & Reparations, and Time & Imagination.
UU@UN Intergenerational Spring Seminar 2023
APRIL 1-3, 2023
This year’s theme was Demilitarization & Abolition: Resist Policing and Empire. Given this theme, we wanted to learn from movement leaders in Minneapolis and global partners who have been on the front lines of resisting police and empire.
Keynote: Andrea Ritchie, co-author of No More Police (with Mariame Kaba)
The intergenerational seminar is an opportunity to collaborate with others while learning how to be a global activist. Through workshops, peer and expert-led panel discussions, community building activities, and worship services, participants will undergo a transformative process of learning, reflection, and growth while exploring some of the most challenging issues facing humanity today.