UUJEC Healthcare Task Force
We’re currently exploring ways that we can get involved in RIP Medical Debt—a program that buys medical debt at a discount rate and forgives it, freeing people from crushing obligations and the spectre of bankruptcy. You’ll hear more about it in the UUJEC April webinar, and we’ll let you know when our plans have jelled. more info.
Drawdown Eco-Challenge Customized for UUs
Join us! Volunteers are putting together a “custom” Drawdown Eco Challenge for UUs that will be ready for sign-ups in mid-March, with detailed instructions, and will go through June 2021. (Note: There is also an Earth Month April 2021 EcoChallenge). Go to our newsletter page for more info.
Sacred People, Sacred Earth with GreenFaith Int’l.,
March 11 UUs and others gathering at the Washington monument will carry the Sacred People, Sacred Earth coalition’s Ten Demands (https://bit.ly/2Poq3o9) to our U.S. representatives. Go to our newsletter page for more info.
All In for Climate Justice: Food Equity & Sustainability
Are you passionate about food justice, global justice and climate justice? The 2021 UUA conference builds off last year’s climate justice theme, focusing on the connections between food and climate justice. Programs will ground, connect, and equip participants to take action toward achieving climate justice through more equitable and sustainable food systems. Go to our newsletter page for more info.
We, members of congregations
of the Unitarian Universalist Association, have covenanted to affirm and promote our Seven Principles. Go to our newsletter page for more info.
Webinars, for more info, click here
Thursday, March 10, 2021
5 PM Pacific, 6 PM Mountain, 7 PM Central and 8 PM Eastern
To join our Zoom meeting, email us by hitting “reply” and ask for link and passcode
or go to the UUJEC Facebook page for Facebook Live.Maya K. van Rossum will speak on the Green Amendments movement. Maya is the author of The Green Amendment, Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environmentand the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring a movement to amend state constitutions to recognize and protect environmental rights on par with other inalienable civic and political freedoms. She is also the Delaware Riverkeeper, leading the regional advocacy organization, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, for over 26 years. For more info, go to our webinar page.
Thursday, April 10
5 PM Pacific, 6 PM Mountain, 7 PM Central and 8 PM Eastern
To join our Zoom meeting, email us by hitting “reply” and ask for link and passcode
or go to the UUJEC Facebook page for Facebook Live.
The Earth is now experiencing human-caused climate disruption at an ever-accelerating pace. At present, even the best case mitigation strategies will not stave off catastrophic changes that are already heated into the biosphere. How, then, shall we Live? The talk will give a brief overview of how far along we are with climate disruption, then shift into spending the majority of time addressing how we find meaning, and purpose, during such a time. For more info, go to our webinar page.