ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. UU Common Read is POSTPONED until April The 2024-25 UU Common Read is Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families (Skinner House, 2023). Look for information here and how to register: https://uusaratoga.org/authentic-selves/ … Continue reading News from your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM March 7, 2025
Cup of Joe, February 28, 2025 We are all looking for ways we can take action to disrupt the agenda of hatred and bigotry being enacted by the oligarchs and autocrats currently trying to run our country. Every day is a new outrage that somehow outpaces how outraged we were yesterday. The congregation’s Social Justice … Continue reading Thank You to the Social Justice Team and Side with Love
Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information UUA joined a multifaith coalition of twenty-seven religious plaintiffs bringing a lawsuit against the Trump Administration, seeking to keep houses of worship safe from raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Learn how the UUA is protecting immigrant rights. For more info click here UPDATE: A federal judge on Monday … Continue reading ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM Feb 28, 2025
Building Beloved Community Beyond the Binary. Saturday, April 26th, 2025 • 8:30am-5:00pm First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse 109 Waring Road, Syracuse, NY – and virtually! A place to find community with transgender, nonbinary folx and our allies. A conference for us to gather, learn, and grow. Click here for all the info and … Continue reading Building Beloved Community Beyond the Binary.
ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM! Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information -Support the 24 hour “black out” on purchases on Friday, Feb. 28 Join Americans pledging to stop making any purchases for a full 24 hours on February 28. The national economic blackout is scheduled as a way for Americans to boycott … Continue reading News from our Social Justice Team
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Cup of Joe, February 14, 2025 Love + Liberation I was reading a prayer, and it ended with the words “Love Will Guide Us.” And that was enough for the hymn in our Singing the Living Tradition hymnal to get stuck in my ear. (You can hear members of the congregation and I singing it … Continue reading Love + Liberation
Feb. 28-March 1: Refugee Shabbat Temple Sinai, 509 Broadway, Saratoga Springs Temple Sinai welcomes all community members to local observance of HIAS’ Seventh Annual Refugee Shabbat, https://hias.org/how/refugee-shabbat/ Friday, Feb. 28: Family Shabbat & Refugee Shabbat Service will begin at 6:00 PM with oneg/refreshments at 5:30 PM. https://www.saratogasinai.org/events/shabbat-refugee-service-819/ Saturday, March 1: Refugee Shabbat Service at 10:30am … Continue reading Local Refugee Shabbats
JOIN US FOR THESE IMPORTANT SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES! Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. Let’s join this nationwide protest! On Monday we will meet in the UU parking lot at 11:15am to carpool. It is advertised from noon until 5pm, but we will only attend from noon until 2pm. (Organizers say it won’t last until 5!) … Continue reading News from our Social Justice Team February 14, 2025
“Journey to Freedom” is an award-winning civil rights documentary series that highlights veterans of the civil rights movement who reside in the capitol region. Join us as we screen an episode and discuss with the panelists from the Journey to Freedom team. Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. Sunday, February … Continue reading Please join us at the Saratoga Springs Public Library for a film screening and discussion of “Journey to Freedom.”