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Amazon Smile and UU FaithAction NJ

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Did you know Amazon will give UU FaithAction NJ .05% of every dollar you spend on Amazon…. and who doesn’t spend on Amazon?  It’s easy to set up:  Log onto to smile.amazon.com and under Charitable Organizations search for Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry.  Then, whenever you need to purchase something from Amazon, use the amazon smile site and shop as normal!  Amazon will then send us a check every month for 5% of all sales linked to UULMNJ (our former name). Or you can simply click here.

Economic Injustice Workshop

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The NJ Work Environment Council, hosted by UU FaithAction NJ and it’s Economic Justice Task Force, presents a powerful training opportunity designed to show how the US and NJ have become increasingly economically divided between the “haves” and “have nots.”  We will then learn what it will take to reverse that trend and how to effectively promote economic justice in our communities and across the state.  Ultimately, we will learn how to be more effective at bringing people together to exercise political power.

These are interactive workshops where we share our own experiences. Attending this training with other UUs and our allies will help us learn about each other, about the root problems of the most egregious economic inequalities in American life, and help us be even more effective advocates for economic justice!


No matter how much time we spend learning about what’s going on in the world, sometimes the best thing to do in rough times is to come together. And then determine what we can do to make a difference. Even better if different groups are doing different things but pushing towards the same goals.

Please consider attending this training – and invite an interested friend.  To move forward on our economic justice agenda, we have to do at least two things well: educate ourselves on the history and issues, and train ourselves to help organize others. Let’s put our heads together and work on a campaign with help from people who are doing this effectively nationwide. To register, please go to January 5 on the Community Calendar.

STATEMENT OF THE COALITION OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF NEW JERSEY

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At this tragic moment in time, an unconscionable act of hatred and evil against members of the Jewish Faith community, we as Religious leaders in the state of New Jersey wish to extend our heartfelt compassion and to stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters and the faith communities that they lead.

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2018 Fall Issues Conference

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UU FaithAction’s Fall Issues Conference takes place on Saturday Oct. 20 from 10:00 am until 4:00 p.m.  Hosted this year by our member congregation, Beacon UU Congregation of Summit in Summit summitbeacon.org, the conference features Senator Raymond Lesniak as our keynote speaker, issues-related break out groups and a working lunch.  The Summit congregation is active in antiracism and immigration justice work and we are very pleased to partner together in support of a more just and hopeful New Jersey.

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We are 1844 No More

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“The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the denial of the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” But New Jersey’s law that denies the right to vote to people with criminal convictions undermines the Fifteenth Amendment’s prohibition on explicit racial discrimination by linking the right to vote to a racially discriminatory criminal justice system.

New Jersey leads the nation in having the highest racial disparities in having the highest Black/white incarceration rates for both adults and youth, making the laws racially discriminatory impact particularly acute.” – New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

Please join fellow UUs on Monday, September 24 at the Rutger’s-New Brunswick Student Center to partake it what is sure to be a riveting and informative discussion!

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Major Rally to Support Driver’s Licenses/Push Back Against ICE Immigration Regime

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Sept. Rally Save the Date – Thurs. Sept. 6th 2018

UU FaithAction, along with many of our immigration rights allies, faith and human rights groups, will come together at 12 noon on Thurs., Sept. 6 in front of the Statehouse in Trenton to protest the continuing harsh “crackdown” on undocumented immigrants in NJ and across the US.

One important protection we can offer here in NJ is legislating a legal process (as they have already done in California, D.C. and elsewhere) for people with limited documentation to prove who they are, take the driver’s exam, purchase insurance and get back out on our roads safely and LEGALLY.

With a valid license, residents with an otherwise unblemished (or very minor) record can’t be detained and deported–simply because of a routine traffic stop.

We hope many of you will join us on Thursday, Sept. 6th at 12 noon at the NJ Statehouse.  Buses will be leaving from various locations across the state to help make transportation there and back easier–more information on that will be forthcoming.