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.”
I am proud to share with you that the Unitarian Universalist Association has joined with a multifaith coalition and the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection to bring a lawsuit challenging Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) “sensitive locations policy.” The case, Mennonite Church USA et al. v. United States Department of Homeland Security et al., … Continue reading UUA Sues to Halt Immigration Arrests at Houses of Worship
JOIN US FOR THESE IMPORTANT SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES! Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. UU Common Read is here in March The 2024-25 UU Common Read is Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families (Skinner House, 2023). Discussion Series: March 2, 9, 16, and 30. 6:30-8pm in sanctuary 1. A bill is … Continue reading News from our Social Justice team February 7, 2025
WHEN: Sunday, February 23rd 2:00p to 4:00p WHERE: Frederick Allen Elks Lodge #609, 69 Beekman Street, Saratoga Springs, NY WHAT: I.B.P.O.E. of W.’s Frederick Allen Elks Lodge #609 and Mary A. Carter Temple #362, the two oldest black civic organizations in Saratoga Springs, NY, along with Our Lodge Foundation, are recognizing Black History Month with … Continue reading “BLACK & BANNED”: Refusing to Let Our History Be Whitewashed