UUA and 1U – Justice

Justice and the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) www.uua.org

The UUA and its affiliated organizations are deeply committed to justice work. The UUA website offers educational materials, many groups of action and advocacy as well as support groups. A few are below and more are listed here.

Side With Love (SWL) Action Center  www.sidewithlove.orgAn interfaith public advocacy campaign promoting respect for the inherent worth and dignity  of every person. The website says, ”This is a place where we unite in work toward a world where we all thrive. Together we take action, Side With Love, and make deep impacts in this critical moment.” More information about Side With Love is here.                                                    
UUtheVote  www.uuthevote.org/A UUA partnership for the encouragement of voter registration and participation in the voting process.  During 2024 UUtheVote has become a partner of the Vote Yes 4 campaign in Florida working toward voter registration and encouraging folks to Limit Government Interference with Abortion by Voting YES on Amendment 4 on November 5th!  Reproductive Justice and Healthcare access is an essential right.  UUs have been supporting Reproductive Justice for decades. 
UU Justice Florida (UUJF)  www.uujusticefl.orgA statewide justice ministry for members of 45 Unitarian Universalist congregations in Florida and their social justice committees in partnership with other interfaith and public interest organizations to promote justice, equity, and compassion in public policy. The emphasis is Florida, but UUJF partners for national outreach. Sign up for Action Alerts here.Email address: info@uujusticefl.org
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee www.uusc.org A nonprofit, nonsectarian organization advancing human rights together with an international community of grassroots partners and advocates. UUSC is doing outreach work in Florida.  Love Resists is sometimes used as a call-out.  
More than 3,279 Unitarian Universalists from 592 congregations in forty-eight states and four countries—Canada, France, Mexico, and the Virgin Islands—participated in GA this year. There were 2,483 attendees onsite, as well as 143 children, according to UUA Secretary John Simmonds.

The theme of General Assembly 2025, held June 18–22 on site in Baltimore, Maryland, and online, was Meet the Moment—and as ground-shaking world events unfolded around them, Unitarian Universalists showed what meeting the moment looks like in real time.

The UUA moved swiftly to condemn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to curtail the rights of transgender people in the case of U.S. v. Skrmetti. Then, hours after the United States announced on Saturday, June 21 that it had bombed Iran, the UUA issued a statement condemning the action, saying it “represents a moral failure and Unitarian Universalists (UUs) are compelled through our religious beliefs to speak out against it.”

General Assembly (GA) is the annual meeting of our Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). Participants worship, witness, learn, connect, and make policy for the Association through democratic process. Anyone may attend; congregations must certify annually to have voting delegates.

Besides meetings, formal and informal religious/ethical discussions, Association business, delegates voted to approve one of three submitted  Statements of Conscience (CSAI) for deeper multi-year  study at our congregations. Delegates ultimately voted for “Abolition is Faith Formation,” 

Delegates also voted to affirm all three Actions of Immediate Witness (AIWs) under consideration: “Faithful Defiance of Authoritarianism, a Call to Action: Reaffirming Our Covenants for Democracy and Freedom” (98.3 percent of votes), “Funding Global LGBTIQ Freedom Amid Crisis: A Call for Immediate Action and Solidarity” (98.3 percent of votes), and “We Declare and Reaffirm: All People Have Inherent Worth and Inalienable Rights” (99.2 percent). AIWs are statements about a significant action, event, or development in the world that necessitates immediate engagement and action among UU congregations and affiliated groups.