Usually we honor someone from our history who serves as a role model on this page, but there are plenty of UU justice-makers who are living and working right now.
Take, for instance, Lena K. Gardner, who is the Membership and Fundraising Director for our own Church of the Larger Fellowship. Lena is a leader with the Black Lives Matter movement in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She organizes and speaks out and brings people together to protest racist ways that the police have treated Black people in their community and other places around the country.
Working with many other people—many of them young adults or even teenagers, they have protested police killing unarmed Black people and demanded that city officials change policies to hold police accountable.
Always using peaceful strategies, they have held protests in America’s biggest shopping mall and on the highway and in front of a police station.
Some people have objected to the Black Lives Matter slogan, saying that all lives matter. But Lena and many others are pushing people to understand the many ways in which Black people are treated as if their lives don’t matter. They are working for a world where everyone finds fairness.
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At the CLF we strive to be a public voice for justice and to curate a conversation that leads to deeper understanding of how we can build a more just world. Read more →
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Three of our CLF prisoner members wrote pieces for Quest Monthly on the theme of Justice. What follows are excerpts from these pieces. Read more →
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May 2016
It is justice, not charity that is wanting in the world. —Mary Wollstonecraft
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Erin Heaney, National Organizing Director for SURJ, And Rev. Cathy Rion Starr talk about the movement that has inspired many UUs.The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Tom Schade, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Aisha Hauser, Hank Pierce and Bob LaVallee. It airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired April 21, 2016.
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The Rev. Carlton E. Smith and Kenny Wiley from the Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU) organizing collective join us. We will discuss BLUU efforts to make GA more accessible for black UUs, and how we can develop spiritual fortitude for the struggle. We will also get an update from founder of the Hot Stove Report Hank Pierce! The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Tom Schade, Aisha Hauser, and Hank Pierce, and airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired April 14, 2016.
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow meets The VUU crew to talk about the Jewish renewal movement. The VUU is hosted by Meg Riley, Joanna Fontaine Crawford, Tom Schade, Aisha Hauser, and Hank Pierce, and airs Thursdays at 11 am ET. This episode first aired April 7, 2016.
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