UU FaithAction NJ is committed to the Black Lives Matter movement and to ending the systematic oppression faced by people of color in our country and the State of New Jersey.
At the 2015 Annual Meeting the Legislative Ministry endorsed a statement about dismantling racism. The organization is committed to the Black Lives Matter movement and to ending the systematic oppression faced by people of color in our country and the State of New Jersey.
Get Involved! Join our exploratory racial justice and local policing group. In July 2016, more than 30 UUs joined a “crisis call” discussing the ongoing police violence against people of color. Participants included UU FaithAction task force members, ministers, and congregants from Summit, Montclair, Monmouth County, Palisades, Princeton, Washington Crossing, Morristown, Ridgewood, Paramus, Somerset Hills, Hunterdon County, and Plainfield. If you are interested in joining this effort, contact our Executive Director, Rev. Rob Gregson at ExecDir@UUFaithAction.org
Resources
- Looking for next steps in your antiracist ministry? Check out this pilot project toolkit for congregations being tested by the Summit Antiracist Coalition. All Faith’s Policing Toolkit
- Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed
By Ijeoma Oluo Mar 16 2017
This isn’t an easy article but it is a very smart one, and hits home for many but perhaps especially for those among us who recognize ourselves as “well meaning white liberals” (or “well meaning white conservatives/independents” though you are not mentioned very much in this article) who are beginning to see with greater clarity the pervasiveness of racism in American culture. Spoiler alert: there is bad language here, and a perspective some may (will) find troubling. The editor’s take is that UU FaithAction NJ was never meant to be another institution that comforts the comfortable and afflicts the afflicted. Or as one writer has said, “It’s not unity we are fighting for, but freedom.” Worth reading.
- Newark Police Reform
- Side with Love