|
|
UU World reports from the annual General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. Click here for a comprehensive guide to our 2011 General Assembly coverage.
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 the [...]
Here is the final text of a responsive resolution passed by the 2011 General Assembly calling for the creation of an “Arizona Youth and Young Adult action ministry” (PDF; 1 page) to prepare young Unitarian Universalists to participate in the 2012 “Justice General Assembly” in Phoenix. The resolution was introduced by Rob Smith of Valley UU Church in Chandler, Ariz.
Full text below.
Continue reading Final text: Resolution calling for Ariz. ‘action ministry’ for young UUs
The Unitarian Universalist Association Board of Trustees delivered its report to the General Assembly on Saturday morning, updating delegates on its yearlong efforts to improve linakage with congregations and urging them to vote to reduce the size of the board and eliminate Actions of Immediate Witness at next year’s GA. They also encouraged attendance at the Justice GA in Phoenix.
Four at-large trustees spoke on behalf of the board.
Continue reading Board members urge ‘yes’ votes for bylaw amendments
What will the 2012 Justice General Assembly look like?
That’s the question more than 100 people came together to ask and to begin to answer in a Thursday afternoon workshop called “Looking Ahead to General Assembly 2012.”
Planners have delivered a clear message that the 2012 GA will not be business as usual. At last year’s Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly in Minneapolis, delegates overwhelming passed a business resolution to dedicate the 2012 General Assembly in Phoenix to “witnessing on immigration, racial, and economic justice.” The business resolution was passed in response to Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration law SB 1070, which had inspired calls for the UUA to boycott the state. The resolution states also that the 2012 GA will include a minimum of official business.
The session was led by Lynda Shannon Bluestein, chair of the GA Planning Committee, the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, minister of the UU Congregation of Phoenix, Ariz., and Carolyn Saunders, a member of the UU Church of Tucson, Ariz.
They begin by inviting people to ask what they needed to know about the Justice GA. For the next 20 minutes, attendees posed a wide range of questions, including:
- What will the role of youth be?
- How will the planning committee balance witness, civil disobedience, and service activites?
- What provisions are being made for the extreme heat in Arizona in June?
- How will they avoid cultural appropriation?
- How will the large numbers of youth and young adults afford to go?
- How will they select which organizations to partner with?
Continue reading 2012 ‘Justice General Assembly’ begins to take shape
In its second day of meetings prior to the opening of the 2011 General Assembly in Charlotte, N.C., the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Board of Trustees devoted considerable time to matters related to next year’s “Justice GA” to be held in Phoenix, Ariz. The board also welcomed a new member congregation and approved the reunion of the UU United Nations Office with the UUA. (Click here for our report on Tuesday’s board meeting.)
Continue reading In Charlotte, Board looks ahead to Phoenix GA
Here are the texts of the four responsive resolutions introduced during the final plenary session at the UUA’s 2010 General Assembly. These are unofficial versions, as presented to the delegates; final versions of the three approved resolutions will be published on UUA.org after they have been reviewed by the UUA’s legal council and have been copyedited.
In the scramble to wrap up our coverage of the 2010 General Assembly, UU World published reports on three of the four proposed Responsive Resolutions presented during Sunday afternoon’s final plenary, but didn’t publish a report on the fourth. Here it is:
Delegates affirmed a Responsive Resolution concerning the 2012 General Assembly in Phoenix, Ariz., offered by [...]
UUA Moderator Gini Courter, in her annual report Sunday evening, reflected on how what could have been a painful debate on boycotting Arizona turned into a commitment that almost everyone can enthusiastically support. Proudly sporting a Standing on the Side of Love T-shirt, Courter started her report by reading an excerpt from the book The [...]
Delegates adopted Action of Immediate Witness 1, “Oppose Anti-Immigrant Measures at the State Level (Arizona Law SB 1070 and the Like) and Hasten Federal Immigration Reform,” after adjusting a line that had urged joining “tourism and product boycotts of Arizona.” As amended, the resolution recommends applying “such economic pressure to the state as is specifically targeted [...]
During the presentation Saturday afternoon that preceded the debate and vote about holding a General Assembly in Arizona, the UUA introduced this six-minute video about Unitarian Universalists and Arizona SB 1070. The film, “Standing on the Side of Love in Arizona,” includes footage of the May 29 protest and march opposing SB 1070 and interviews [...]
|
|
