MUUSJA Annual Reports

Our 2009 Annual Report (pdf 302 KB) is now available for download. Our 2008 Annual Report (pdf 948 KB) and 2007 Annual Report (pdf 784 KB) are also available.

MUUSJA Stands on the Side of Love

During General Assembly 2009, the UUA launched the Standing on the Side of Love campaign. This campaign promotes respect for the inherent worth and dignity of every person. Standing on the Side of Love will confront issues of exclusion, oppression and violence based on identity. The campaign will pursue social change through advocacy, public witness and speaking out in solidarity with those whose lives are publicly demeaned.

Minnesotans attending GA joined voices on Friday, June 26th to enthusiastically endorse this new advocacy campaign!

MUUSJA's Voter Rights campaign was very active at General Assembly. Read about and watch video from their important success passing a voting integrity Action of Immediate Witness on the Voter Rights page.

Movement Moment Training

In November 2008, MUUSJA gathered over 50 Unitarian Universalist social justice leaders and activists from congregations across Minnesota. We hired Beth Zemsky, U of M adjunct faculty in social movement theory and former Bush Leadership Fellow, to work us through several questions:

• Are progressive people of faith ready to lead and govern, not just protest and critique?
• How do we organize for the rising wave of change?
• Who will we work with and where might we be in 5, 10, even 20 years?

Beth trained us in her recent work in social change theory: that movements happen in waves, and this provides MUUSJA and other systemic change groups with a potential new Movement Moment.

Download our notes (pdf 440 KB) from the day to see for yourself this amazing day of insight and leadership development, or to refresh your memory if you were in St. Paul for this powerful day of movement building! MUUSJA will be using this work as core material for our next strategic plan. Contact us if you would like to be included in our strategic planning work, summer 2009.

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