• Final texts: 2011 Actions of Immediate Witness

    Friday, July 22, 2011

    The three Actions of Immediate Witness adopted by the 2011 General Assembly were published on the UUA website two weeks ago, but I forgot to provide direct links at the time. Here are the social witness resolutions by petition that delegates approved in Charlotte: Protest Representative Peter King’s Hearings on “Muslim Radicalization” (blog coverage) Support [...]

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  • Resignations accompany planning for 2012 GA

    Monday, July 11, 2011

    Michelle Deakin reports today that the UUA Board of Trustees, the General Assembly Planning Committee, the board-appointed GA 2012 Accountability Group, and the UUA administration continue trying to clarify how next year’s “Justice General Assembly” in Phoenix will be planned. The chair and vice-chair of the General Assembly Planning Committee resigned at the conclusion of [...]

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  • Off-site delegate test hailed as a success

    Monday, July 11, 2011

    Don Skinner reports that the off-site delegate experiment at this year’s General Assembly, which allowed 49 delegates to participate in all plenary business remotely, was a technical and social success. In a survey of the off-site participants, more than 90 percent rated their overall experience as “excellent” or “good.” Twenty-eight percent said they actually participated in [...]

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GA 2011

Jul
22

Final texts: 2011 Actions of Immediate Witness

The three Actions of Immediate Witness adopted by the 2011 General Assembly were published on the UUA website two weeks ago, but I forgot to provide direct links at the time. Here are the social witness resolutions by petition that delegates approved in Charlotte: Protest Representative Peter King’s Hearings on “Muslim Radicalization” (blog coverage) Support [...]

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Jul
11

Resignations accompany planning for 2012 GA

Michelle Deakin reports today that the UUA Board of Trustees, the General Assembly Planning Committee, the board-appointed GA 2012 Accountability Group, and the UUA administration continue trying to clarify how next year’s “Justice General Assembly” in Phoenix will be planned. The chair and vice-chair of the General Assembly Planning Committee resigned at the conclusion of [...]

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Jun
22

Recent General Assembly photos from UU World

View UU World’s General Assembly photographs on Flickr.

Jul
22

Final texts: 2011 Actions of Immediate Witness

The three Actions of Immediate Witness adopted by the 2011 General Assembly were published on the UUA website two weeks ago, but I forgot to provide direct links at the time. Here are the social witness resolutions by petition that delegates approved in Charlotte: Protest Representative Peter King’s Hearings on “Muslim Radicalization” (blog coverage) Support [...]

Jul
11

Resignations accompany planning for 2012 GA

Michelle Deakin reports today that the UUA Board of Trustees, the General Assembly Planning Committee, the board-appointed GA 2012 Accountability Group, and the UUA administration continue trying to clarify how next year’s “Justice General Assembly” in Phoenix will be planned. The chair and vice-chair of the General Assembly Planning Committee resigned at the conclusion of [...]

Jul
11

Off-site delegate test hailed as a success

Don Skinner reports that the off-site delegate experiment at this year’s General Assembly, which allowed 49 delegates to participate in all plenary business remotely, was a technical and social success. In a survey of the off-site participants, more than 90 percent rated their overall experience as “excellent” or “good.” Twenty-eight percent said they actually participated in [...]

Jul
11

UU World’s business summary of 2011 General Assembly

For a comprehensive summary of business conducted at the UUA’s 2011 General Assembly, see Michelle Deakin’s UU World article, “Delegates approve ethical eating and a smaller board” (July 4, 2011).