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This gathering is an opportunity to hear updates about our campaigns and take action together, such as calling your legislators, signing petitions, and more, to support our frontline and coalition partners. We hope this supports making these actions more accessible and helps you stay accountable to taking action towards justice!

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*Note this month’s Justice Church is at 6:00 PM, not the usual 6:30 PM time

The somatics bodyworker MawuLisa Thomas Adeyemo tells us "There is so much that I feel is possible that happens at the level of the body. When we slow down enough to listen to the language of the body, there's just so many answers that are there." In a society that so often sees our bodies as separate entities from our whole selves, how do we learn, feel, and know these answers that Adeyemo says our body has? How does this power translate into siding with love? Come join us as we explore the interconnected ness and interdependence of our power, our bodies, and our love. 

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Climate policy moving in the statehouse on siting and permitting is not looking good for equity and justice. As allies to the MA Environmental Justice table, we need to get clear on what is happening and advocate.

We invite you to gather with the UU Mass Action Climate Justice Team. We organize with Mass Power Forward (a statewide grassroots climate coalition) to win collective political victories for climate and environmental justice while also connecting and building community.

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Join us for our UU April Immigrant Justice Team Meeting to get a behind the scenes look from UUA staff about housing ~25 families of recent immigrants to provide temporary shelter at the 24 Farnsworth Building. We will learn more about how you can support the UUAs effort including items drives, and explore possibilities in your own congregation for providing housing and hospitality to immigrant families. 
As UUA Executive Vice President Carey McDonald said, "As a religious community headquartered in Boston, we consider it an act of faithful witness to use our facilities to do our part to support families in need, including migrant families who are simply seeking safety for their loved ones." We hope you join us for this exciting conversation!

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Online and in-person at First Church Boston, hosted by Sanctuary Boston.

In an increasingly polarized world, we want to equip ourselves with the skills needed to navigate tense situations with grace and compassion, grounded in our Unitarian Universalist values. Whether at social justice events or within the sacred space of our worship, this training will offer tools to keep ourselves and each other safe by deescalating agitated or disruptive situations.

Led by UU Mass Action's Movement Building Director Claire Karl, we’ll delve into practical strategies for deescalating potentially volatile encounters and supporting individuals who may be experiencing agitation or distress. Together, we'll cultivate a deeper understanding of how to diffuse tension without resorting to violence. We invite your presence and participation as we embark on this journey together toward building a safer world. 

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 Join MASC, our campaign to end solitary confinement, for a in-person event to learn more about the systemic injustices of our prison system, build relationships, and be inspired to take action. This event will be in-person at First Church Belmont.

RSVP here by March 12!
*If you have not registered yet, we are accepting late registrations, however we cannot promise that we will be able to support you in getting a meeting on short notice. If there is already a meeting scheduled in your district, you will be invited to join. And if not, you are welcome and encouraged to join us for all the other parts of the day! (See below).

Join UU Mass Action for our annual virtual UU Advocacy Day to live out our values by taking action together this March! At this annual event, we come together as UUs from across the state to build power for our movements. Participants will meet with legislators about our key areas of Immigrant Justice, Climate & Environmental Justice, Economic & Housing Justice, Indigenous Justice, and Decarceration & Ending Solitary Confinement. As we near the end of the 2023-34 legislative session, this will be a critical moment to show up together as UUs, grounded in our faith, to let our legislators know which bills - out of the thousands that are filed - we care the most about. See our priorities here!

Day of Agenda (All on Zoom):

• 10 AM: Welcome/Singing/Sermon

• 11 AM - 12PM: Regional Team Meet-up

• 12 PM: Lunch/Prep for Meetings

• 1 PM - 2PM: Case Studies and Trainings

• 2 PM: Meetings with Reps

• 3:30 PM: Meetings with Senators

• 4:30 PM: End

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Come Join UU Mass Action this Friday March 22nd at noon as we hear about efforts of different congregations around democracy, talk about UU the vote, and make action plans around this upcoming election and our statewide democracy as a whole.

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We are entering the work of UU the Vote 2024 grounded in the current political and spiritual conditions of our faith and national community. The work that is needed in 2024 will require us to anchor in our power and connect authentically to mobilize UUs, voters, and our local communities. UU the Vote 2024 is an ambitious strategy to grow a powerful pro-democracy majority. This year we will build our commitment to democratic practices and recommit to showing up for social movements building infrastructure and relationships to sustain us the beyond the electoral year. Join us for our launch, Thursday, March 14th at 7pm ET/4pm PT-8pm ET/5pm PT, as we highlight our upcoming work. You’ll learn about our work with State Advocacy Networks and their partners in key states, key ballot initiatives, political education and spiritual grounding opportunities and our mass voter contact program. Join us!

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Come join UU Mass Action as we facilitate a space to come together as congregations, congregants, and community to take action for a ceasefire. Come join us for break-out groups, sharing a congregational resource being created by a group of ministers, and to have space to be together, collaborate, and act.

Join us as we work to end this massacre, ensure the exchange of all hostages, and end the violence.

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Join us for our monthly UU Immigration Justice team meeting to connect with others, and hear about the most important updates from our immigration justice campaigns! This month we will focus on learning more about how you can show up to house and welcome Immigrants as a congregation. We will also discuss how our UU Advocacy Day on March 26 can further Immigrant Justice!

Zoom link here!

Join us for this event, as the UU Urban Ministry partners with UU Mass Action and Homes for All Massachusetts to focus on how we put our knowledge of housing injustice into action to work for justice now. Special guests include UU Mass Action's very own Rev. Jo Murphy and Tali Smookler, as well as Carolyn Chou, Executive Director of Homes for All Massachusetts.

Together, we will discuss what we can do now—and together—to help confront the housing issues. 

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Location: Metrowest area; exact location coming soon!

UU Youth Corps is hosting an intergenerational event to canvass to support the No New Women's Campaign that is working to re-imagine what we could do with $50 million dollars instead of investing it in a new prison. We will spend time connecting, learning about this issue, and then taking action together! Cookies and Cloud Gazing included.

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This gathering is an opportunity to hear updates about all our campaigns and take action together, such as calling your legislators, signing petitions, and more to support our frontline and coalition partners. We will focus on our key issues areas: climate justice, immigrant justice, decarceration, Indigenous Legislative Agenda, and economic justice. We hope this supports making these actions more accesible and helps you stay accountable to taking action towards racial justice!

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Ever been to UU Mass Action’s Advocacy Day? Whether it’s your first or tenth time, we know we are more powerful when we advocate with others. Join us for our February UU Mass Action Justice Church as we delve into the spiritual and tangible work of Advocacy Day! This Justice church will focus on recruitment skills, alongside moments of spiritual grounding and connecting in the lead up to UU Advocacy Day 2024. Come dive into the work of uniting together in the spiritual practice of legislative organizing.

Justice Church is a monthly virtual service for UUs who care about justice from across our network, to come together in community to ground spiritually, connect, and build power together. We will include a sermon, break-outs groups (coffee hour), announcements, centering rituals, and more. Justice Church happens monthly on the third Tuesday from 6:30-7:30pm.

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Join our February Indigenous Justice Team meeting! We will connect, ground into what happened with our bills, and brainstorm and discuss a 6 month plans to support our bills as we near the end of this session. 

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This February, we see what key committee Chairs include in their proposed energy policy packages. Join us to ground into this moment, strengthen our commitment, and ready ourselves to spring into action together to advocate for strong and just climate policy this session as we organize with Mass Power Forward (a statewide grassroots climate coalition).

RSVP here! Contact shepard.patty@gmail.com with any questions. 

Please join us for our next quarterly meeting of the UUMA Certified Working Group: Black Lives Matter. Newcomers are always welcome to these opportunities to learn from each other. We will invite folks to share any recent challenges or successes they have had while pursuing anti-oppression work in their congregation.

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Save the date for the next Immigration Justice Team Meeting!

Join us, as we continue to dive more deeply into questions of rapid response while building up our toolbox of how to be best connected and aware of current immigration justice networks, alerts, actions, and organizations.

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Join UU Mass Action at Families for Justice as Healing's annual Valentine's Day rally in support of the jail and prison construction moratorium bill and ending the incarceration of women and girls in Massachusetts. This deadline was extended to get this bill out of committee, and we need to keep the pressure up!

Can't make it? You can take action by using the action toolkit here!

Our first action hour of the year! Come be in community to learn, engage, and take action.

Register here — this is a virtual event

Register Here with new link!

Join us for our January UU Mass Action Justice Church as we reflect on stepping into leadership for liberation-- especially when it's hard, exhausting and/or we are afraid. Come join us as we explore what skills are needed, the questions to be asked, and the vision we need to create to be true liberatory leaders.  

Justice Church is a monthly virtual service for UUs who care about justice from across our network, to come together in community to ground spiritually, connect, and build power together. We will include a sermon, break-outs groups (coffee hour), announcements, centering rituals, and more. Justice Church happens monthly on the third Tuesday from 6:30-7:30pm. 

Our team for Indigenous Justice will connect, take time to share how this work is going in our congregations and brainstorm/plan how to get more folks to take action for the February deadline.

Register here! 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting

Hybrid Event: In person at First Parish Concord - 20 Lexington Rd and online

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Facebook event here

Join the MA Environmental Justice Legislative Table to discuss the elephant in the room- how do we build the renewable distributed electric grid we need fast, while not repeating the mistakes of the past? Learn more about our vision for infrastructure, energy democracy, and centering frontline communities in the process- as well as the current policy proposal from the EJ Table to greenlight good projects fast and nip bad projects in the bud. 

The MA Environmental Justice Legislative Table members include GreenRoots, Alternatives for Community & Environment, Coalition for Social Justice, Arise for Social Justice, Groundwork Lawrence, and the North American Indian Center of Boston with allied support from Conservation Law Foundation, Union of Concerned Scientists, Massachusetts Public Health Association, Unitarian Universalist Mass Action, Clean Water Action, MA Climate Action Network, and Environmental League of MA.

This event is co-sponsored by (updated 12/1)

350 Mass, Berkshire Environmental Action Team, Breathe Easy Berkshires, Brookhaven Residents' Climate Change Committee, Canton Sustainable Equitable Future, Climate Action Group, Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, Climate Action Now (Western Mass), Energy Allies, Fix the Grid Campaign, Jewish Climate Action Network, Massachusetts Climate Action Network, Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light, Inc., Mothers Out Front Massachusetts, No Fracked Gas in Mass, Our Climate, Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast

Join us for our January UU Mass Action Justice Church as we reflect on stepping into leadership for liberation-- especially when it's hard, exhausting and/or we are afraid. Come join us as we explore what skills are needed, the questions to be asked, and the vision we need to create to be true liberatory leaders.  

Justice Church is a monthly virtual service for UUs who care about justice from across our network, to come together in community to ground spiritually, connect, and build power together. We will include a sermon, break-outs groups (coffee hour), announcements, centering rituals, and more. Justice Church happens monthly on the third Tuesday from 6:30-7:30pm. 

Register Here 

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Join us in a conversation on Rapid Response! Come discuss questions of 'how do we respond to white supremacists and their attacks on immigrants, safely and effectively? How do we disengage if necessary? Is there a role for signs, chants, songs, etc.? What are some basic guidelines and tips for effective participation?

Giving the Gift of Environmental Justice

December can feel cold, dark and filled with non-stop consumption. Bring a warm beverage, a cozy blanket and a friend to our monthly climate team gathering.  We will strengthen our vision for light and hope for the future and give the gift of taking action for environmental justice to those who come after us. 

We invite you to gather with the UU Mass Action Climate Justice Team. We organize with Mass Power Forward (a statewide grassroots climate coalition) to win collective political victories for climate and environmental justice while also connecting and building community. 

Register in advance for this meeting here!

Many of us may feel we are in the thick of despair. If not in the thick of it, we may feel close to it. It is a hard time. Let us explore together what it takes to move from despair, and also act upon our love in a way that enables us to move, to organize, to craft the change we need.

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Justice Church is a monthly virtual service for UUs who care about justice from across our network to come together in community to reground spiritually, connect, and build power together. We will include a break-out group coffee hour, announcements, community offerings, and trainings. We hope that this will be a space to find spiritual grounding, collaborate and meet other UU Mass Action members, and be together in a space of ritual and song! 

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Come join us as we focus on ways to live out and act on our priorities finding ways to collaborate on issues of housing, advocacy, and building a rapid response network.We will dive deep into our action plan and come together for problem-solving and wisdom-sharing breakout groups.

UU Mass Action Youth Corps have made many tied dyed items to be sold at this fair! The money will be donated to the frontline partners our youth work with, please consider coming or donating!

Join us for a not-to-be-missed holiday tradition where you can do your holiday shopping and help others at the same time. Find gifts for everyone on your list by choosing from an array of products featuring the work of both local and international artisans. Items for sale will include paintings and collages, jewelry, cards, soaps, clothing and accessories, household items, bed and table linens, children’s items, specialty food items, international crafts, and more … and all sales will benefit worthy causes near and far. The Social Action Holiday Gift Fair has become a treasured holiday tradition in the community – we hope you can join us!