Come Sing with Us!

We are gathering to sing at the State House as a way to call for stronger protections for our immigrant communities through the People's PROTECT Act Platform (see above). Learn more here!

Through song, we are choosing a form of protest that is both powerful and rooted in community. One that brings people together, and makes it impossible to ignore the voices of those most impacted. Our presence is a reminder that there is still time to strengthen this bill and ensure it meaningfully limits ICE’s ability to target people across Massachusetts.

We will be gathering in Nurse's Hall inside the State House to sing together for one hour on the following dates:

• Monday, April 27th @ 11am

• Tuesday, April 28th @11am

• Wednesday, April 29th @11am

• Thursday, April 30th @ 11am

• Friday, May 1st @11am

Check out videos from our singing from last week here and here for inspiration !

Come Sing with Us!

We are gathering to sing at the State House as a way to call for stronger protections for our immigrant communities through the People's PROTECT Act Platform (see above). Learn more here!

Through song, we are choosing a form of protest that is both powerful and rooted in community. One that brings people together, and makes it impossible to ignore the voices of those most impacted. Our presence is a reminder that there is still time to strengthen this bill and ensure it meaningfully limits ICE’s ability to target people across Massachusetts.

We will be gathering in Nurse's Hall inside the State House to sing together for one hour on the following dates:

• Monday, April 27th @ 11am

• Tuesday, April 28th @11am

• Wednesday, April 29th @11am

• Thursday, April 30th @ 11am

• Friday, May 1st @11am

Check out videos from our singing from last week here and here for inspiration !

Come Sing with Us!

We are gathering to sing at the State House as a way to call for stronger protections for our immigrant communities through the People's PROTECT Act Platform (see above). Learn more here!

Through song, we are choosing a form of protest that is both powerful and rooted in community. One that brings people together, and makes it impossible to ignore the voices of those most impacted. Our presence is a reminder that there is still time to strengthen this bill and ensure it meaningfully limits ICE’s ability to target people across Massachusetts.

We will be gathering in Nurse's Hall inside the State House to sing together for one hour on the following dates:

• Monday, April 27th @ 11am

• Tuesday, April 28th @11am

• Wednesday, April 29th @11am

• Thursday, April 30th @ 11am

• Friday, May 1st @11am

Check out videos from our singing from last week here and here for inspiration !

RSVP here! 

Approximately 70 percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives live in urban areas. Urban Indian Centers provide a wide range of cultural, social, educational, and professional services to Native peoples- and have also played a significant role in the American Indian Movement. Join us to learn more and support our local North American Indian Center of Boston in their goal to raise 100k.

We invite you to gather with the UU Mass Action Indigenous Solidarity Team. We organize with the MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda (a statewide grassroots Indigenous led coalition) to win collective political victories for Indigenous justice while also connecting and building community. 

Add your voice to the chorus for the People’s Protect Act Platform!

Time and RSVP coming soon!

RSVP here!

The Massachusetts legislature is working to provide greater protections in the state for immigrants at risk of ICE enforcement through a bill called the Protect Act - but the version passed by the House is weakened, still allows for versions of information sharing and collaboration with ICE, and lacks many known provisions that could have a greater impact! The Senate will release its version for a vote any day now, and we need them to hear loud and clear that MA residents want them to do all they can to stop law enforcement collaboration with ICE and reduce risks for our immigrant neighbors! Join us on Wednesday to learn more about the current Protect Act (and our “People’s Protect Act” Platform!), hear testimony from the grassroots partners, and take time to call our Senators, urging them to advocate for a strengthened version of the bill.

La legislatura de Massachusetts está trabajando para ofrecer mayores protecciones en el estado a los inmigrantes que corren el riesgo de ser detenidos por el ICE a través de un proyecto de ley denominado «Protect Act»; sin embargo, la versión aprobada por la Cámara de Representantes está debilitada, sigue permitiendo ciertas formas de intercambio de información y colaboración con el ICE, ¡y carece de muchas disposiciones conocidas que podrían tener un mayor impacto! El Senado dará a conocer su versión para someterla a votación en cualquier momento, y necesitamos que escuchen alto y claro que los residentes de Massachusetts quieren que hagan todo lo posible para detener la colaboración de las fuerzas del orden con el ICE y reducir los riesgos para nuestros vecinos inmigrantes. Únete a nosotros el miércoles para conocer más sobre la actual Ley Protect (¡y nuestra plataforma «People’s Protect Act»!), escuchar los testimonios de nuestros socios de base y dedicar un tiempo a llamar a nuestros senadores para instarlos a que aboguen por una versión más sólida del proyecto de ley.

Late Registration Here!

Update: We will have a live captioner for the 10-11 gathering and the 11-12 gathering!

We are excited to share our full agenda for UU Advocacy Day 2026! Participants do not need to join every part, but are invited to participate in the parts of the day that are most meaningful to you. Below is the full agenda: 

• 10-11: Community Gathering with live music from Soren Austenfeld

• 11-12: Panel: The Faith Pillar - Interfaith Coalitions Against Authoritarianism 

• 12-1: Lunch break/final prep

• 1-2: Relationship Building Across Congregations

• 2-3:30: Rep Meetings

• 3:30-4:30: Senate Meetings

• 4:30-5: Closing Celebration 

More about UU Advocacy Day: 

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. 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. Learn more about the event here, and register here. 

More about our Panel: The Faith Pillar - Interfaith coalitions Against Authoritarianism

To heal our democracy, we must not cooperate with authoritarianism- and faith is a critical pillar of power. On this panel, we will hear from UU Ministers working across faith to build our power and be in solidarity with immigrants, labor and all those targeted by fascism. Speakers coming soon!

RSVP here!

Optional pre-gathering skill share 11:30 - 12:00

May 1st - International Workers’ Day - is a historic day of solidarity, dignity, and the fight for the rights of workers and immigrant communities. Join us to learn more about the importance of this day, and how you can organize your congregation and support MA’s upcoming big May Day mobilization this May 1st!

This event will feature guest speaker Claire Karl Miller of UU Mass Action!

Learn more and RVSP!

Rent is rising. Families are being pushed out. And the legislature has the power to act right now.

Join us to demand that our leaders take action to support housing justice and keep people in their homes!

RSVP here!

Building Power around No Kings 3

It’s eight months till election day- and Team Democracy needs more power. For November elections, for Immigrant justice, for stopping unconstitutional wars, for trans rights and more- we need more power.

Join this gathering to connect, get inspired, and get easy to use tools for getting the most out of No Kings 3 on March 28th.

RSVP here!

Join us to learn about the the PROTECT Act (a new immigration justice bill), the strengths and limitations of this proposed bill, and write testimony in support of passing stronger, more impactful, and bold immigration legislation this session! As this bill has its hearing this week, we will unpack this bill with guest speaker Javier Luengo-Garrido, Deputy Field Director ACLU MA.. Together, we will take action by writing testimony to advocate for strong immigration legislation this session. 

UU Action Hours are an opportunity to learn about our campaigns and take actions together, with UU Mass Action staff compiling action opportunities and guiding participants through each action. We hope this makes taking actions more accessible, and provides a space to stay accountable to taking important actions!

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Ever been intimidated or confused by the Statehouse? You’re not alone. This month we break through barriers that hold us back from meeting with our legislators and advocating strategically for the best climate policy. Our guest speaker this month is climate leader Senator Michael Barrett.

The UU Mass Action Climate Justice Team organizes 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.

More details and RSVP link coming soon!

RSVP here!

Flyer here 

Join our UU Mass Action Immigration Justice Team’s monthly meeting to learn about the new proposed legislation (the PROTECT ACT), and Gov Healey’s Executive Order and proposed bill. We will unpack the contents, understand their limitations, and share other ways that our state can truly have an impact to protect immigrant communities. This event is hosted by UU Mass Action, but open to all!  

 Guest speakers include: 

• Mallory Hanora, Executive Director at Families for Justice as Healing

• Mario Paredes, Policy Advisor 

• Leah Hastings, Immigrant Detention Conditions Project Legal Fellow and Staff Attorney at Prisoner Legal Services

There will be Spanish interpretation!

*RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 4TH*

Register here!

Join us as we gear up for our annual UU Advocacy Day for a training to deepen your advocacy! In this training, we will discuss how to level up your advocacy meetings with your legislators, demonstrate power, and navigate spaces of negotiation. 

You can learn more about Advocacy Day here and register here! This year it will be on Thursday, April 16, 10-4pm. 

RSVP here!

UU Mass Action has been personally invited to recruit participants to join two upcoming canvassing events to support passing the Prison Moratorium bill. We hope you will consider joining for one of the opportunities ! If you can't make these, you take action on your own using this guide or during our Action Hour this week!

Join an in-person canvass with leaders from Standing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Boston and Harvard Divinity School (HDS) to support FJAH's policy priorities! This canvass will be a door knocking canvass in Framingham, Senate President Karen Spilka's district, in support of the FreeHer Policy Platform. Let's talk to our neighbors and build people power! Exact location and all needed details will be provided to you by your canvass captain before the event.

RSVP here!

We are in the homestretch of the Massachusetts legislative session- these last months till July 31st are when many actual decisions get made. Join us this hour to stay grounded in the kind of social action that nourishes us, brainstorm how we want to show up for the last 5 months of MA climate work, while keeping it spiritually sustainable. 

The UU Mass Action Climate Justice Team organizes 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. 

RSVP here!

UU Mass Action has been personally invited to recruit participants to join two upcoming canvassing events to support passing the Prison Moratorium bill. We hope you will consider joining for one of the opportunities ! If you can't make these, you take action on your own using this guide or during our Action Hour this week!

Join an in-person canvass in support of our policy priorities! This canvass will be in South End/Bay Village in Boston to speak with Rep Michelwitz's constituents. Rep Michelwitz is House Chair of Ways and Means, and this canvass will focus on the moratorium bill, which is in his committee. Let's urge him to ensure the Prison Moratorium is passed by the House, and talk to our neighbors and build people power! Exact location and all needed details will be provided to you by your canvass captain before the event.

Register here!

Join us to learn about the efforts to pass a prison moratorium and stop new construction of s $360 million prison, and how to support decarceration efforts.

We will be joined by guest speaker Kira Matthews, from Families for Justice as Healing!

Action Hours are 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 walk you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have.

RSVP here for the Zoom Registration Link! 

UU Mass Action invites you to join us as we show up for our partners at the North American Indian Center of Boston. Join us for an incredible night of appreciation and urgent fundraising.

For 57 years NAICOB has empowered the New England Native American community through direct social and cultural services. Our community has shared the collective fight for social and economic, environmental, and racial justice. Amidst the federal divestment from urban Indigenous communities, the Center now faces a gap in funding needed to maintain already underfunded, critically needed services for urban Indians throughout the Commonwealth. 

The FreeHer Campaign has held a rally at the MA State House for Valentine's Day every year since 2022 to send love to women inside MCI-Framingham and call for decarceration and an end to new prison construction. This year we will hold a vigil for the grief and rage families are feeling while being torn apart by incarceration and deportation. As always, we will uplift the voices of women inside MCI-Framingham. Join us any time from 4:30 to 6:00 to demand the releasing women, stopping the $360m women's prison project, getting ICE out of Massachusetts, and investing in what our communities need to thrive. We will provide candles and welcome you to bring signs. We will be outside so please dress for the weather.

Register here!

Optional Pre Gathering Grounding 11:30-12pm

In January, a Minneapolis interfaith group put out “A call to Minneapolis: Faith Leaders Answering History in a Time of Peril and Possibility.” Hundreds of clergy from across the country rose to the occasion, including UU clergy from MA.  

Join UU Mass Action to hear first hand report back from UU leaders who participated in this historic moment, their learnings, takeaways, and how we can show up in solidarity both for those resisting in MN, and here in MA. 

Immigrant Justice Tea and Skill-Share from 11:30-12pm

Just before our regular meeting, we will gather for our extra 30 minutes. This month, our focus will be on 30 minutes for grounding and spiritual nourishment in this moment. You can RSVP for both times on the regular RSVP form. 

Register here!

UU Advocacy Day is a powerful opportunity to bring others in your congregation and community into our critical organizing work. Join us for this conversation to support you in recruiting others to make sure you are not alone in your district! We ask for at least three constituents in a district to organize a meeting. Getting a early start on recruitment can ensure you have a powerful meeting. 

RSVP here!

Email here with any questions 

South Bay House of Correction and Nashua Street Jail are sites of long-standing violence, neglect, and state harm in Suffolk County. For decades, these facilities have functioned as pipelines that criminalize poverty, target unhoused people, and cage community members who should never be incarcerated.

From routine sexual, physical, and verbal abuse, to medical neglect, to suspicionless strip searches, to the expansion of pre-arraignment detention and so-called community response courts, the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department has repeatedly expanded its reach and power. Between 2021 and 2023, seven people died in Sheriff’s Department custody. In December 2025, Shacoby “Coby” Kenny became the eighth.

Shacoby was held on $2,500 cash bail on unit 3-4 at South Bay when his life was taken. Witnesses report that he was restrained, beaten, and choked by correctional officers. What happened to Shacoby is not an isolated incident. It is part of a devastating and ongoing pattern of violence, retaliation, and impunity inside South Bay. Men currently incarcerated continue to report harassment, targeting, and retaliation, including many who are not bailable and cannot secure release.

All Eyes on South Bay  is a call to action for community members to come together and demand change . 

RSVP here!

Join UU Mass Action, UU Ministers, and UU activists to explore UU history of civil disobedience, why UUs have felt called to action in this political moment, and how you can get involved. 

Our speakers will include:

• Rev Fred Small, Minister for Climate Justice, Arlington Street Church

• Rev Annie Gonzalez, UU Immigration Activist, Minster at First Parish in Bedford

• Eric Segal, UU Immigration Activist

• Betsy Leondar-Wright, Immigration Activist

RSVP here!

Is your UU congregation active in the work for our democracy? Or, do you wish it were more? This gathering we will connect, feel inspired, and hear from some UUs taking on Democracy work. From this initial gathering, UU Mass Action’s Democracy work will continue to evolve. If you would like to be on the panel of sharing out, please contact Claire Karl.

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In January, we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, and the non-violent mass movement he helped lead. Our featured speaker, Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs will reflect on the connections between empire, crusader values, and our struggles for liberation.

Clyde Grubbs is a Unitarian Universalist minister who has served congregations in California, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Texas, as well as Quebec. Clyde honors his Native American heritage (Texas Cherokee), which informs his spiritual understanding and practice, as well as his anti-racist and anti-oppressive commitment.  He has worked for peace, justice and equality since he was in the Unitarian Universalist youth movement, Liberal Religious Youth.

RSVP here!

*You can also take these actions on your own if you can't make the action hour - see links below*

As many are reeling from the murder in Minneapolis last week, we invite you to come together with others to take actions this week. This virtual Action Hour will including taking action to:

• Support cutting and preventing contracts with ICE in MA

• Demand justice for Shacoby Kenny, who died in jail in MA in December.

• Reject increase funding for ICE

• and/or other relevant actions as they emerge this week 

We know that violence from ICE, violence from correctional officers, from police, and more, are connected. We hope you will join us to take action together.

We will walk you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have.

You can also take all these actions on your own time using the links above. 

RSVP here!

Affordability is the word of the hour! Join us this hour to ground into our UU values of generosity and interdependence and also learn from our guest speaker Cathy Kristofferson about the truth around gas and energy prices.

Cathy Kristofferson is a co-founder of the Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast (PLANN), an organization whose mission is to prevent the overbuild of fossil fuel infrastructure and to champion our transition to clean energy solutions. Cathy is PLANN’s representative on the Mass Power Forward Planning Team and is also a Conservation Commissioner for the Town of Ashby.

RSVP here!

Flyer here

 Join UU Mass Action and guest speaker Leah Hastings to learn about the intersections of our criminal justice system and our immigration detention and deportation system - often known as “Crimmigration.” We will learn about how local law enforcement, police, courts, and ICE cooperate; why it’s so important to understand how these systems are intertwined; and how these intersections show up in our movements. We will unpack how and why it’s important to not fall into the good/bad immigrant narrative that we often see. Finally, we will identify opportunities to dirupt these collaborations and how this analysis can inform and strengthen our organizing.  Leah Hastings is the Staff Attorney for the Immigrant Detention Conditions Project at Prisoner’s Legal Services.

Immigrant Justice Tea and Skill-Share from 11:30-12pm

Just before our regular meeting, we will continue our extra 30 minutes of informal sharing and problem-solving. You can RSVP for both times on the regular RSVP form.