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 [...]
Delegates vote to eliminate AIWs at 2012 Justice GA
After impassioned debate on the future of Actions of Immediate Witness at Unitarian Universalist Association General Assemblies, delegates overwhelmingly voted in favor of a bylaw amendment that would eliminate AIWs at the 2012 Justice GA in Phoenix. The amendment also reconstitutes AIWs with the 2013 GA, reducing the allowable number of AIWs to three from [...]
AIW 3, calling for end to Afghan involvement, fails
Action of Immediate Witness 3, calling for an end to U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, failed to gain approval of two-thirds of GA delegates Sunday. A similar measure was rejected last year as well.
Approved: AIW supports California supermarket workers
Delegates adopted Action of Immediate Witness 2, “Support Southern California Supermarket Workers’ Struggle for Decent Wages and Benefits.” Rick Rhoads, delegate from the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica, Calif., spoke in favor of the AIW, reporting that workers were nearing a massive strike in response to severe cuts in their wages and benefits. [...]
AIW 1, protesting ‘Muslim radicalization’ hearings, passes
GA delegates approved Action of Immediate Witness 1, “Protest Rep. Peter King’s Hearings on Muslim Radicalization,” Sunday morning after a lengthy debate on an amendment that would have added language about religious stereotyping. The author of that amendment withdrew it before a vote, however, and that opened the way for the vote on the whole [...]
Approved: AIW opposes corporate personhood
Delegates adopted Action of Immediate Witness 4, which opposes the U.S. Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. FEC. That decision, according to the AIW, “enshrined corporations as persons and equated money with speech.” The AIW urges member congregations to sign the resolution for The People’s Rights Amendment proposed at freespeechforpeople.org. It also asks people to encourage [...]
No substantial changes to AIW bylaw amendments yet
The two proposed bylaw amendments that would affect Actions of Immediate Witness (AIWs) came out of the mini-assembly on Thursday afternoon without substantial changes, according to Greg Boyd, who moderated the mini-assembly session at the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly in Charlotte, N.C. The proposed bylaw amendments concerning AIWs will both come before General Assembly [...]
Commission will introduce four Actions of Immediate Witness
Saturday’s “CSW Alert,” the daily General Assembly social witness business update that delegates will receive as they enter the plenary hall Saturday morning, includes the text of four proposed Actions of Immediate Witness. The Commission on Social Witness could have brought additional proposed AIWs to the Saturday morning plenary, from which delegates could have voted [...]
Trustees prepare to make case for smaller board
The Unitarian Universalist Association Board of Trustees met in Charlotte, N.C., today for the first of two days of meetings before the start of the 2011 General Assembly. The board discussed the best ways to explain to GA delegates several proposed changes in governance and social witness. A proposal to reduce the size of the [...]
Final texts of GA resolutions now available
Here are the final texts of the Actions of Immediate Witness, business resolutions, and responsive resolutions adopted by the UUA’s 2010 General Assembly. Actions of Immediate Witness Clean Up the Clean Energy Bill Gulf Coast Environmental and Economic Justice 2010 Oppose Anti-Immigrant Measures at the State Level (Arizona Law SB 1070 and the Like) and [...]
