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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. 

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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 . 

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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

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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.

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*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. 

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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.

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 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. 

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Join UU Mass Action and Mass Power Forward for our December UU Action Hour with a focus on climate justice. We will learn about the efforts this past month to roll back MA climate legislation and about how we have shown up to fight back, as well as take actions for climate justice together. 

 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.

Gatherings include song, sharing, learning, and calls to action on our campaigns.

More info and RSVP link coming soon!

Join us for a protest demanding that Sheriff McDonald end the ICE agreement. The location is noted as being the home to the only ICE detention center in Massachusetts.

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For our UU November Action Hour, join us to learn about the Dignity Not Deportations bill, and take action in lead up to the hearing on Nov 25. We will have a powerful speak line up!

This Action Hour and Teach in is a collaboration between UU Mass Action, the Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network,  LUCE, Essex County Community Organization (ECCO), and Asian Pacific Islanders CAN. 

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This November we notice how solutions for climate justice can be traced back to Indigenous justice- and we give thanks. Join us to share, feel, learn and act.

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. 

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This month we look at the intersection of Indigeneity and gender liberation. All too often where manifest destiny brought colonizers, it also enforced the gender binary where it had not previously existed. As two-spirit, trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people are experiencing increased repression under the Trump regime, we turn our attention to how Native cultures continue to hold out a vision for our collective liberation. Join us as we have a “fireside chat” with local Native gender non-conforming community members and organizers.

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In Person Hearing: Thu Nov 13, 2025 1pm – 5pm at the State House 

Our clean energy goals, our energy bills, and our environmental justice communities are under attack. This bill prevents approval of new and expanded large gas pipelines and power plants within 5 miles of environmental justice communities. These projects would increase customer bills, pollute communities, and work against the State’s clean energy transition. The bill also supports a just transition for former and current energy workers who could be displaced by not building these projects in the future. Fact sheet. 

The Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee (TUE) will hear testimony related to this bill on November 13th at 1pm.  We need as many people as possible to show up for the hearing and submit written testimony. 

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Advocacy Day at the State House

We’ll bring our voices to Beacon Hill to urge legislators to pass the Dignity Not Deportations Bill. The day will include a briefing, visits with legislators, and a rally to call for an end to harmful collaboration between local law enforcement and ICE. Register here, use " RACMAfree" at checkout (after you select a level of giving) for free registration. This is hosted by the RAC MA, JALSA, UU Mass Action, and Merrimack Valley Project. 

Can't make it?

• Use this template to write written testimony we will submit to the committee when the hearing is scheduled. Here is the testimony template you can use to write your testimony

• Join us for our Dignity Not Deportations Teach in and Action hour (more below!)

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Monday Nov. 10th, 12-1:00 pm

How do you build and grow your immigration justice efforts in your congregation? Join our November UU Immigration Justice Team gathering to learn concrete organizing skills for how to grow your congregation immigration and social justice teams. In this session, Rabbi Allen Lipson from Essex County Community Organization (ECCO) will lead a training to support you in strategizing about how to build leaders, build power, and deepen your impact so your immigration and social justice work is as strong as it can be. 

Optional Pre-Meeting Gathering 11:30-12 for Tea and Skill Sharing!

Just before our regular meeting, we will continue our extra 30 minutes of  sharing and problem-solving. This is an optional, informal time for more open conversations with each other to support you in building your immigration teams. We also  discuss more strategic  questions about immigration justice organizing in your congregations. Topics we’ve covered in the past include legal resources, what skills you need to accompany someone to court, getting started, and more! You can RSVP for both times on the regular RSVP form.

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At some point this fall, state legislators will hold a public hearing on Dignity not Deportations. Dignity not Deportations will end agreements through which MA local and state law enforcement volunteer resources to ICE, slowing the impact of mass deportations without due process. At this Dignity not Deportations Testimony Workshop, we will hear stories from directly impacted people, review best practices for preparing written and oral testimony in advance of the hearing, and set aside time for you to workshop your own testimony.

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Join us for a fun Halloween-themed rally on October 28, 11:30am - 2pm, organized by Mass Power Forward to bring climate groups together and get attention to our shared legislative priorities. We will meet on the State House steps for a skit featuring our legislators warding off vampire utilities and billionaires with garlic bulbs representing our priority bills. Then we'll go inside to deliver "trick or treat" gifts that will aid our legislators in a heroic fight for climate policies that defeat the vampires!

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We're in sight of the end for this round of signature collecting to put rent control on the ballot in MA! Join us on Tuesday, October 28 from 6:00 - 7:00PM for an online rally to boost energy as we keep working toward collecting 125,000 signatures. We'll hear updates from special guest speaker Carolyn Chou (Director of Homes for All MA), stories from the field, and even help you get ready if you want to start collecting now. As housing costs are driven by corporate real estate investors, and people are pushed out of their homes & neighborhoods, grassroots power is how we'll win this fight! Let's go!

If you are not able to join, we would still love your support. We are still under 50% of signatures needed with only 2 weeks left to reach out goal of 125k - that means we need all hands on deck! Here's how you can get involved: 

• **NEW** Sign up here to join a Greater Boston shift and election day! 

• Click here to watch the recording from our interfaith training- you can also share it with friends and others from your congregation. You must be trained before collecting!

• Sign up here to anchor a shift or get started on your own! You will get all the info you need to jump in. 

• Collecting outside a local grocery store is gold! Grab a friend and go for 1-2 hours to farmers markets, grocery stores, or anywhere people gather in your community. If everyone did this 1-2 times in the next two weeks, it would make a world of a difference.

• Email Tali with any other questions!

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Food! Singing! Celebrating each other and our accomplishments! 

Join us in person on Thursday, October 23 from 6:00-8:00 PM at the First Parish in Concord for our annual UU Mass Action community gathering to celebrate all our work together in the past year. We will share highlights from our year, and provide nourishment both through food and through song. This is a wonderful opportunity to spend an evening with other UUs who care about justice, learn about our campaign teams, Youth Corps, and our partners, and build community. We hope you can join!

Accessibility info:  For wheelchair accessible entrance, go down the driveway on the right of the building, enter the side door of the building. There is an elevator that is accessible on all floors, and there is accessible parking and an accesible bathroom. Masks are not required at this event, but if you are feeling sick, please stay home and we'll see you next time!

We encourage you to wear a yellow side with love shirt to the event, or a yellow UU Mass Action T-shirt! A percentage of the cost of the shirts will go directly towards our work. If you'd like to order one, you can do so here. Please note that the shirts take about two weeks to arrive after placing an order.

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Join us for our Kick Off UU Immigration Justice Team meeting! We will share context from the landscape and threats we are facing, and share how UU Mass Action is working to take impactful action. We will have time in break out rooms to learn about opportunities to host immigrant families, support critical immigration justice legislation, support our partners at LUCE and BIJAN, engaging in signature gathering for rent control and how that connects to immigration justice, and more!

The ACLU-MA, Indivisible Mass Coalition and Mass 50501 proudly continue working together with allies and you to make our peaceful movement bigger and stronger! “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together.

The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us.

Where: Boston - specific location to be announced

  When: October 18, 2025 and time will be announced

A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.

Coordinate to meet up with UUs through this signal thread:  https://signal.group/#CjQKILCp_XZ6J4zAOcR6EW87sm3rcuEAD5ZArSVbHePdbxLAEhAE2h9WFBGOfW4giY8dYI15

To look like a united front, we encourage you to wear yellow, a side with love shirt, or a UU Mass Action yellow shirt!On October 18, millions across the country will come together with one clear message: America belongs to us. No Kings. No Crowns. No Thrones.

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With just under a month till No Kings II, you have some time to gather a delegation from your congregation, church, or fellowship to join your local event. But do not stay idle. Act now!

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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 and housing justice. We know that we send out a lot of opportunities to take action each week, and hope this can be one structure to support each other in staying accountable to showing up to these campaigns. We will walk you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have.

This will also be a chance to connect with other UUs from across the state!

Learn more and sign up for other future action hours here.

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Greed and anger are harming our democracy and our planet. Working to heal our climate and stopping the power-hungry OIL-ligarchs go hand in hand, especially as we build power here at the state level. Our gathering this month will inspire and give structure to stitching together our work for climate and democracy.

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. 

Tues, Oct 14th SPJE State House Rally - 10:30am State House Steps

Join featured speakers Senator Mike Barrett, Chuck Collins (Institute for Policy Studies), and Claire Karl Muller (Mass Power Forward and UU Mass Action) for a powerful event at the State House as we expose so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuels” (SAFs) as disastrous greenwashing that cannot justify private jet expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere! – We need to rebrand SAFs as Frankenfuels that will come to haunt us! 
Let’s make a statement — visually and vocally! You're welcome to --

Show up in your most ghoulish Frankenfuel outfit!

Make your own SAF protest sign – here are ideas!

Click here to let us know you’re coming – and for information about parking, T, and driving directions.

Click on Rally flyer for full details

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Indigenous Peoples Day 2025 approaches and yet the Baystate still has not established the day state-wide. Join us to hear from co-founders of Italian-Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day Danielle DeLuca and Heather Leavell. They will speak about their personal journeys as proud Italian-Americans and their organization. Join us to learn more about how Euro-heritage Americans can be active for Indigenous justice.

Danielle DeLuca (she/her) is a co-founder of Italian-Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day, where she has been organizing for the removal of Columbus as a symbol of Italian heritage alongside dedicated Italian-Americans and Indigenous advisors since 2016. She has helped to organize Indigenous People's Day events in Cambridge, MA and Dedham MA, where she resides with her husband, who is Indigenous to Guatemala, and their three kids. Danielle is a senior development manager at Cultural Survival, an Indigenous-led non-profit based in Cambridge.

Heather Leavell (she/her/hers) is a second generation Italian American and co-founder of Italian Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day, a Massachusetts-based group supporting Indigenous-led efforts to rename Columbus Day and eradicate Columbus statues and place names. She is a co-founder of two successful Indigenous Peoples Day campaigns, first in her former city of Melrose, Mass., and more recently in Bedford, Mass. where she currently resides. Heather is also a member of Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda Coalition steering committee. She is a museum director and curator in the Boston area.

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. 

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Kick Off Zoom Training for Faith Leaders

Homes for All Massachusetts and other frontline organizations are collecting 75,000 signatures to allow MA voters to CHOOSE rent stabilization at the ballot box & fight displacement. Out-of-control housing costs driven by corporate real estate investors are pushing people out of their homes & neighborhoods, and families across the state can't make ends meet. If the legislature won't act, the people will! You can learn more about the initiative here!

UU Mass Action is partnering with faith communities across the state the organize to gather signatures to get rent stabilization on the ballot, including the Merrimack Valley Project, Episcopal City Mission, ECCO, and more!

Join our call on Sept 30 to get trained specifically with other faith groups! Other ways to get involved:

• Sign up here to be trained to collect signatures with Homes for All!

• Fill out this form if you would like to organize a signature gathering in your congregation as part of UU Mass Action, or email tsmookler@uumassaction.org

• Sign up here to stay updated from the campaign!