Social Justice Team Blog
- ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM April 25, 2025 April 25, 2025Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information New Movie Opportunity on May 3! On Saturday, May 3rd at 3pm, we will present a screening of the new feature documentary film by Saratoga Springs resident Michael Wayne, How to Save Democracy. How to Save Democracy is a film that looks at why democracy in the U.S. is struggling to survive. ...
- ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM April 18, 2025 April 18, 2025Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. Social Justice needs a new Chair – or two or more! Lucy Manning is stepping down in mid-May as chair of the Team and the position can easily be shared to lessen the workload for one person. Here’s a list of duties that can be divided among several people: Create ...
- ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM April 11, 2025 April 11, 2025Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information What’s Up with this Sign? And a follow up from the Social Justice Team’s Coffee Chat on 4/6/25 I.C.E. and Our Role as a Sanctuary Space When you return to our Meeting House, you will see this sign attached to the outside of the back door on the lower level and ...
- ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM April 4, 2025 April 4, 20251. Immigration and Sanctuary Spaces ● COFFEE CHAT THIS SUNDAY – I.C.E and our Role as a Sanctuary Space ● Read our Sanctuary Resolution of April 9, 2017: https://uusaratoga.org/justice-inclusion/congregational-resolutions/ 2. Unfortunately due to low registration the UU Common Read (Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families) that was scheduled to begin this Sunday is cancelled and will be postponed to ...
- MAID Rally: Rev. Joe leading the song! April 3, 2025
- MAID Rally in Albany NY March 25, 2025 April 3, 2025
- ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM March 28, 2025 March 28, 2025Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. Immigration and Sanctuary Spaces COFFEE CHAT April 6th – I.C.E and our Role as a Sanctuary Space Read our Sanctuary Resolution of April 9, 2017: https://uusaratoga.org/justice-inclusion/congregational-resolutions/ 2. Join us for the UU Common Read starting April 6 at 6:30pm The 2024-25 UU Common Read is Authentic Selves: Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families ...
- ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM march 21, 2025 March 21, 2025Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. UU MAID RALLY IN MARCH Join us on March 25 from 10 AM-12:30 PM for a rally of Unitarian Universalists in support of Medical Aid in Dying. This rally is organized by Marian Bigelow, a member of the Saratoga Springs congregation and the NYUUJ MAID Issue Team, in partnership with Compassion and Choices ...
- ACTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES YOU CAN DO NOW From your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM March 14, 2025 March 14, 2025Contact justice@uusaratoga.org for more information 1. Saturday, March 22, 10:00 AM-12:30 PM, UU Saratoga Sanctuary Training in Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Elliot Adams, Meta Peace Teams Volunteer and International Peace Keeper, will be the facilitator. Learn how to risk arrest peacefully and how to be jail support for those risking arrest. $25 donation requested to offset costs. No one will ...
- News from your SOCIAL JUSTICE TEAM March 7, 2025 March 7, 2025ACTIONS 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/ 2. Immigration and Sanctuary Spaces Join us for a Coffee ...