Social Justice

In March, we will share the plate with Operation Fuel, a statewide organization that provides help to people in paying their fuel and utility bills because “nobody should have to worry about keeping the lights on and their house warm.” Operation Fuel currently is serving more than 5.000 households and 18,000+ persons in Connecticut and […]

Since the service that the Racial Justice Group led last fall (2020), the Racial Justice Group contributed to the Martin Luther King Day service in January, and we have been reading and discussing “Widening the Circle of Concern,” which is a June 2020 report of the UUA Commission on Institutional Change. “Widening the Circle of Concern,”

This month, we will share our plate with the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival, a grassroots movement to end the five interlocking injustices of poverty, racism, militarism, ecological devastation, and religious nationalism so that the more than 140 million poor and low-income Americans “are no longer ignored, dismissed or pushed to

A multi-month thank you to everyone in the congregation who has donated to designated charitable organizations through our Share the Plate program. Thanks to you, we were able to donate $458.85 to Call to Care Uganda for September for their well-drilling projects; $467.50 to Hawkwing for aid to people on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation

Our Share the Plate recipient for January is the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, a nonpartisan, non-profit membership organization that defends, promotes, and preserves individual rights and liberties under the U.S. and Connecticut constitutions in state and federal court, the General Assembly and the state’s 169 towns and cities. It is one of 54 affiliates

This month, our charitable share of the plate will go to the Connecticut Food Bank, which provides food to local food banks, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, and food aid programs across six counties in Connecticut, including our shoreline towns. Last year, they distributed enough food for nearly 22.5 million meals to the more than 400,000

Welcome to the Racial Justice Team’s Media suggestions for Fall, 2020! Thank you for reading and watching. (Please click on the links below in blue to access the resources.) Videos by Racial Justice Team: Video on a line from a book which prompted action on racial justice Adult Resources Books: Widening the Circle of Concern

Our Share the Plate recipient for November is Covenant to Care for the Children, an organization we at SUUS have supported for many years. Covenant to Care has worked for 30 years to provide essential goods to children in need in Connecticut, from food and bedding to school supplies and even bikes. For many years