Login
In January 2021, immigrant communities, organizers, and their allies met the change in the US Presidential Administration with determination and courage, focused on ending the cruel, xenophobic policies from the Trump administration.
Envisioning a pathway toward healing, over 20 immigrant-led coalitions came together to launch the “We Are Home” campaign, delivering a clear message rooted in their undeniable humanity and worth. With three concrete demands and an intersectional organizing strategy shaped by youth, worker, and multi-racial coalitions, the “We Are Home” campaign not only called out the dehumanizing policies that have long criminalized immigrants and immigrant families, but centered the essentially transformative role that immigrant communities have in a free and fair society. “We Are Home” was, and is, a message of invitation - to become a country that truly welcomes, cares for, and celebrates all.
Today, the current Presidential Administration threatens to enact even crueler policies than previous administrations. As exclusion and brutality become further codified in our nation’s practices and policies, “We Are Home” invites us to reflect honestly. Can any of us feel at home in a society that continues to deny the basic rights of millions of our friends, family members, and neighbors?
Check out Week One’s offerings for 30 Days of Love 2025! We have ways to take action, something to watch, three activities for families, a body practice, journaling practice, and a creative practice.
Week One of 30 Days of Love: We Are Home
Julián Jamaica Soto
:You must be willing / to dream a dream / that carries forward / your community
If you are looking for less toxic social media platform, Bluesky offers a space where hate speech and deliberate misinformation are banned. We have created a profile and will use this to test the waters and add to our social media toolbox. We invite you to find us and follow us!
Bluesky is founded on the acceptance of community guidelines that: empower user choice, cultivate a welcoming environment, and evolve with feedback. They believe that treating others with respect is non-negotiable. You can read the full guidelines here.
You can use Bluesky in your browser – https://bsky.app/ – or on your phone, just download the app. We are @unitarian.bsky.social
The post the unitarians now on Bluesky appeared first on The Unitarians.
In a few weeks, I will be leading a discussion group on the topic of "Democracy." As part of that discussion, I am currently intending to have the group engage in a collective thought experiment which will involve (in part) imagining what the ideal presidential candidate would look like from a UU perspective. Yes, I know that the vast majority of UU's would have preferred Kamala Harris over the person we have now, but even Kamala (or Hilary or Bernie Sanders or ....) could have been improved on. So, what would the ideal presidential candidate (or president) look like for you?
In case you are curious, I will be asking this question as part of a strategy to tease apart the notions of "democracy" and the Democratic party. At our last meeting on this topic -- at the end of November -- some (quite vocal) members simply conflated "democracy" with the Democratic party. This is of course quite understandable given the context. Yet, they are not at all the same thing and I think it is important to separte them if we are to have any serious philosophical discussion on the topic.
More specifically, I am wondering if some in our group (perhaps myself included) would have voted for someone with authoritarian tendencies if we perceived these tendencies (maybe suppression of dissent and concentration of power) as being for what we saw as the greater good. The idea would not be to say that these inclinations are "wrong," but to use them as a way to think about what democracy really means for us and what tensions might exist between our notions of democracy and our notions of the common good.
With abortion rights under threat of continued erosion, we’re equipping Unitarian Universalists with the information, framing, and assistance needed to enable you to fight for those rights effectively and advance a broader Reproductive Justice paradigm. We’ve just published a guide to provide an easily-navigated reference that helps you make an impact defending and advancing abortion rights, including authoritative sources, key legal history, messaging ideas, UU landmarks and more.
To make it readily updatable, and easy for users to navigate, excerpt, or print, the primer is offered via Google Doc. You are welcome to repurpose and excerpt, provided attribution to the Unitarian Universalist Association is noted (and linked, for online matierial). We invite your input on any ways to improve this primer, or requests for support on other topics of interest to you. We will update this document periodically as major developments occur.
See the Unitarian Universalist Association Issue Guide: Abortion and Reproductive Rights
See other tools from Side With Love:
UPLIFT Action congregational action guide
Action Center with links to resources on all our justice priorities
Guides to Public Outreach through letters to the editor and guest commentaries
Why Side With Loves speaks of Reproductive Justice
Introducing the Unitarian Universalist Issue Guide: Abortion and Reproductive Justice
WWUUD stream 