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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!

Facebook event

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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!

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Did you know that over 1.1 million people in the United States (including more than 27,000 in MA) are at risk of living their existing legal immigration status? The Trump Administration is doing everything they can to end “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) for immigrants from 17 countries in which the conditions are unsafe for their return. 

Come hear from immigrant leaders in the MA TPS Committee, who will share with us about their fight, their wins in the courts so far, and what they need from the greater faith community in MA to work alongside them for these protections. 

Hosted by: The MA TPS Committee, Episcopal City Mission, UU Mass Action, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, UniteBoston, and Merrimack Valley Project, and Essex County Community Organization

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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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Joy keeps us going forward. As we begin another church year together, and we continue our climate organizing with the climate coalition Mass Power Forward- let us do so with song, with full hearts and with an emphasis on joy. Join us for an hour of nourishment, connection and action.

 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.

Tuesday September 16, time tbd (likely early morning)

Burlington Field ICE Office, 1000 District Ave Burlington

Park at Macy's, 75 Burlington Mall Rd

This August, Salem resident Blanca Martinez reported to the Burlington ICE Field Office with over 300 hundred community members and faith leaders by her side. Blanca knew appearing meant risking immediate detention by ICE, but the massive display of support and faith kept her free. One month later - Blanca is being ordered to return to Burlington ICE headquarters where again she faces the risk of being detained on the spot or being given a 2-week notice to self deport. 

 We are deeply concerned for her well-being and we ask that you take action to prevent her being detained at her upcoming ICE check-in at the Burlington ICE Office on Tuesday, September 16th early morning!

You can also sign the petition now to support Blanca’s fight for a stay of removal!

Sign up for our UU Mass Action immigration justice list to stay updated on the details and other immigration justice opportunities!

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Location: Downtown Framingham, MA

Join us for the fourth annual #FreeHer March of 2025, to advance the FreeHer Policy Platform and uplift the urgent need for clemency in Massachusetts. We demand an end to jail and prison construction, pathways home for our people, and massive investment in community-led solutions. A van will be available for those that need a rest or a ride to participate. RSVP to receive more information!

RSVP to join the UU Mass Action Contingent!

Location and more details coming soon!

Join us on August 18th, at 12pm for a youth-led against against deportations. Please join us, and feel free to contact NUBE with any questions.

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Can't make it? Submit write testimony using this guide!

11:30: Action outside State House

1pm: Hearing inside

MA continues to be in a housing crisis, and we need a multi-pronged approach that supports keeping people and families in their homes. This Tuesday, there will be a hearing at the State House for the Senate version of the Rent Control bill.

The bill would not mandate statewide rent control, but it would lift the current statewide ban on rent stabilization, letting cities and towns provide critical protections to residents in their communities who are being forced out of their homes due to unaffordable rent increases.

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Join us for one hour to take many critical actions together to support our campaigns! 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 will walk you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have.

We will not have our regularly monthly action hour in August, so hope you will join us this month!

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On July 17, the anniversary of Congressman John Lewis’s passing, we’re taking action across the country to defend our democracy and carry forward his legacy of Good Trouble. In Boston, we’re doing our part.

From voter suppression bills like the SAVE Act to the criminalization of protest, the Trump administration is launching a full-scale attack on our civil and human rights. But we know the truth: in America, the power lies with the people, and we’re rising to prove it. Bring your signs showing support for voting rights, free and fair elections, the civil rights of our Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and transgender communities, the end of ICE raids, and opposition to the would-be king!

4:30 PM: Gather at Copley Square5 PM: March to Boston Common, Liberty Mall6 PM: Rally starts at Liberty Mall (Corner of Beacon and Park)

This is more than a protest; it’s a moral reckoning. A continuation of the movement Lewis helped lead, and a new front in the struggle for freedom. And part of that movement is mutual aid.

Please bring donations for CHNA 9's youth council to hand out to the homeless in Boston and Eastern MA. They need:

Unused lightweight medical supplies, Socks, individual snacks

Help make Good Trouble Lives On a success: donate here!

The Boston “Good Trouble Lives On” march and rally is organized by a coalition including ACLU-MA, Boston Indivisible, Embrace Boston, Good Trouble Brass Band, Indivisible Mass Coalition, Indivisible Somerville, Mass 50501, Mass AFL-CIO, Swing Blue Alliance, The New Democracy Coalition, and UU Mass Action.

Please note: A core principle behind our Good Trouble Lives On and all Mass 50501 actions is a commitment to nonviolence in all we do. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.

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When/Where: Wednesday July 9th, 10am at JFK Building, 11am at State House Steps 

What: We will gather at the JFK Federal Building just outside City Hall Plaza and then march to the State House steps (map of route) for a rally that begins at 11am, calling on the Governor and our legislators to take action in support of the Dignity Not Deportations Bill.

Why: Our faith traditions teach us to love our neighbors and care for those who are vulnerable and in need.  In the Jewish and Christian scriptures, Abraham and Sarah built their home in a tent that was open on all sides - a canopy that was a sign of welcome and hospitality for all people.  The Essex County Community Organization (ECCO), along with others, has launched the interfaith Canopies of Compassion Campaign in support of immigrant rights to call on our elected officials to meet this moment of cruel injustice towards immigrants with compassion and care.  We have constructed canopies printed with values we all hold dear -  home, safety, refuge, humanity, dignity - and will demonstrate with them in locations throughout the Commonwealth.

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Hear from BIJAN organizers, learn about our work, ground in our shared values, and connect directly with coordinators to fill the most needed volunteer roles:

• accompanying community members to immigration hearings

• sponsorship

• phone answerers

• writing letters to community members detained by ICE

• follow-up taskers

• coordinating and facilitating virtual action hours

This session is meant for folks new to the Network or who are just starting with us, but we welcome volunteers who are already in the work as well.

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Join our June UU Action Hour to take actions together! 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.

In this time of chaos, let us come together and support each other in taking actions that will move forward campaigns led by UU Mass Action frontline partners. We will walk you through each action, and be available to support any questions you have.

Our last UU Monthly Action Hour until September will be in July - sign up to have your congregation co-sponsor!

Take action with Families for Justice as Healing and The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls to end the incarceration of women and girls. 

Please join us on Tuesday, June 17th at 1pm at the State House for the hearing on the MA Survivors Act. Here is our toolkit: tinyurl.com/survivorsact. 

Other ways to get involved: 

• You can also join us Monday June 16, at 6pm on Zoom for a virtual testimony writing party to prepare for the hearing!

• Take 10 minutes to call and email the Chairs of the State Administration and Regulatory Oversight Committee. Thank them for reporting the bill out favorably last session and ask them to do it again: bit.ly/FreeHerMA

• Sign up for a phone bank or canvass to help us contact constituents in key districts to move the Moratorium out of committee: bit.ly/nonewprisonvolunteer

• We have in-person events planned in key districts, virtual events, and campaign work that we can plug you into. Sign up for an event here!

RSVP to join us at the State Houe! 

Facebook event

Location: Room B2 at the Statehouse

Join the MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda support prohibiting the use of Native American mascots in Massachusetts public schools (S.312/H.575). About 25 schools in the Commonwealth currently use such mascots. Academic research reveals that Native American mascots create a hostile climate for Native Americans and increase bias among non-Native people. For Native American students, exposure to these mascots decreases self-esteem and capacity to imagine future achievement. 

In the legislative process, the committee hearing is a critical step. That’s why we need you – so that the legislators will understand there is broad support for a ban on Native mascots. 

Other ways you can support:

• Sign up to give oral testimony in person or virtually! The deadline to sign up for virtual testimony is 12:00 pm on Monday, June 16th.

• Use this guide to submit written comment. Flood their inboxes! (Sign up for our Action Hour below to write testimony together!)

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We are aiming to raise $100,000 by the end of our fiscal year, June 30, and hope to see you on Friday June 13th at a fundraiser to help us reach this goal! 

Join us on Friday June 13th 5:30-7:00 on zoom. RSVP here to receive the zoom link!

We hope you were able to read our email with an important announcement about UU Mass Action's funding. In these uncertain times, we recently learned that two major grants we depend on will not be renewed, due to reasons outside of our organization’s control. This will leave us with an unexpected $90k shortfall for FY26. As a result of this shortfall we are launching ‘Dreaming Beyond Crisis: An Emergency Capital Campaign.’ 

Though we may be at financial loss, at this moment UU Mass Action is doing some of the most powerful, effective work in our organization’s history.

How to Give:

• Donate online to the campaign!

• If you’d like to Mail us a Check, send it to: UU Mass Action, P.O. Box 300159, 655 Centre Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-9998 

• Interested in donating stock or planned giving? Give us a call or email! 401-216-9589 or jmurphy@uumassaction.org

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In the face of federal attacks on climate progress, Massachusetts can show what’s possible.Instead, some state house leaders are bowing down to federal pressure.

Your state legislators need to hear from YOU that climate justice can't wait! Join a meeting in district or online (not the state house) on June 11 to educate your legislators on timely action they can take by passing the Mass Power Forward coalition's democratically chosen legislative priorities. Once you RSVP, you’ll be connected to other people from your district who are participating.

RSVP for our decentralized lobby day on June 11th.

What will this look like?

You will join other advocates to meet with your legislators about critical pieces of climate and environmental justice legislation. No prior knowledge about the legislative process or the legislation is needed! As a constituent, your voice carries power. Whether this is your first time or the 20th time lobbying, you will make an impact.

The sooner you register, the sooner we will be able to schedule your meeting!

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For our final UU Immigrant Justice monthly team meeting of the church year, we will nourish each other with stories from UUs engaging in immigration justice work. There will both be time for prepared stories from a few presenters, and space for all participants to share their  experiences this year. Though our church year is  slowing down, we know that we are in this work for the long haul. Together, we honor the ways that we have shown up and kept going this year despite the challenging times we are in, and we reaffirm to each other that We Keep Going. 

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

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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 Do you want to better understand how ICE detention works in Massachusetts? Do you want to be prepared to support loved ones or community members detained by ICE? Join the Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN) to learn about ICE detention in MA, and how you can support detained people and their loved ones to navigate this system. Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen (BIJAN) and attorney Leah Hastings (Prisoners’ Legal Services of MA) will share information on what to do right after someone is arrested by ICE, where people are detained, how to find someone in detention, how to get phone numbers and visitation approved, how to add money to someone’s commissary, and more. We will also discuss what information and documents are helpful to gather ahead of time to prepare for the possibility of ICE arrest and detention. We hope through this workshop you will be better prepared and resourced to support those detained and impacted by ICE detention in MA. 

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In crisis, there is always opportunity. As more and more of our nation becomes politicized against billionaire oligarchs, corporate power, and the state of our climate- Massachusetts can make progress forward for climate justice. Learn about one of our priority campaigns that links these things all together and keep taking action with us.

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.