The Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance brings together UUs and UU congregations to work collectively for social change based on our religious imperative to create a just, sustainable, and peaceful world. We are following in the foot steps of dedicated and visionary UUs like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Pete Seeger, Margaret Sanger and many others who dedicated themselves to improving life for all people.
Our goals are to:
- Build a lasting social justice organization.
- Prepare UUs to do powerful social change work, using a reflection, action, collaboration approach.
- Develop and bring a distinctly UU moral voice to the public square.
- Wage campaigns in coalition with interfaith and secular partners to achieve winnable systemic social change.
- Shift civic culture toward policies that serve the common good.
The Prairie Star District is MUUSJA's fiscal sponsor, and we are funded in part by a generous grant from the UU Funding Program's Fund for a Just Society. Your memberships and individual gifts, as well as donations from UU congregations, provide our most significant funding.
Why Marriage Matters: UU training on messaging and story
Monday, February 13th, 6:30-8:30pm
First Unitarian Society, 900 Mt Curve, Minneapolis
The national conversation about marriage and same-sex relationships has arrived in Minnesota. This November, voters will decide if discrimination should be written into our state constitution. Come hear Ralph Wyman, Director and Organizer for the Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance, present a short, accessible training on how best to talk about why marriage matters to LGBT Minnesotans – and to us all. We’ll explore ways to move conversations in helpful directions, and have time to practice together.
This is an open event for all UUs. Thank you to FUS Social Action for providing space and refreshments. For more info contact us.
From congregational service to collective systemic change: Engaging UU values as a blessing to the world
Thank you to all who participated in our three Appreciative Inquiry sessions across Minnesota. Your stories of taking individual and collective action for justice are informing a process for the next three to five years of MUUSJA's work for a just and sustainable world.
The input we've collected will help MUUSJA develop a strategic plan for the future you imagine is possible. The board is actively working to develop our new "nested bowls" of Values - Mission - Ends, and we'll be updating you on our plan at our April 29, 2012, General Membership meeting. Stay tuned!
Oppose Discrimination in Our State Constitution!
A state Constitutional Amendment to permanently bar marriage for same-sex couples is on the ballot for November, 2012. MUUSJA supports committed, loving couples regardless of gender, and opposes enshrining discrimination into our state's founding document.
You can join the official statewide coalition working against the marriage amendment at Minnesotans United for All Families.
MUUSJA's working group, UUs Out for Marriage Equality (UUO4ME) is ramping up, too. So join us! Next UUO4ME meeting: Sunday, February 26th, 6:30 pm. First Universalist Church, 3400 Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis.
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Check out our Newsletter page and our Facebook feed for details on the many actions, meetings and events in the work of MUUSJA.
Your generosity connects UUs!
Help UUs build our public vice and express our UU values! Donate at GiveMN. You can make a gift — or renew your membership — to express your commitment to our UU values in action. Thank you!
And thank you to all who participated in Give to the Max! We reached our $1,000 challenge grant and one of our donors won a golden ticket, so that gift had $1,000 added by GiveMN! It was a very successful twenty four hours, thanks to you!
