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You will find here information about our social justice teams, our community collaborators and how to join with others in this vital work.
Listen • Amplify • Resource • Flank • Love

 

Justice Council

Fast Justice Page Navigation
Click links below to go directly to the issue team you want.
  • Immigrant & Refugee
  • Environmental
  • Domestic Violence Awareness
  • UUs United Against Gun Violence
  • RESULTS (Hunger & Poverty)
  • First Sunday Giving
  • Every Day Giving - Donations In-Kind
Our Justice Council is comprised of our Issue Team leads and several at-large members and is chartered by our Board of Trustees. All our justice team meetings are open to drop-ins!  Consider yourself invited!

The Justice Council Charter:
  • Meet regularly to support and coordinate justice teams at UU Santa Fe
  • Report to the Program Council
  • Liaison with the Ministry and Program staff
  • Organize and facilitate the All Hands meetings and Justice information tables as needed
  • Work to implement UUA guidelines in our justice efforts
  • Prepare an Annual Report to the Board of Trustees in May of each year
  • Manage the Distinguished Community Service Award
  • Budget and manage UU Santa Fe funds set aside for our Issue Teams and Task Forces

​Many of our justice making initiatives can be found on our Meetup Group page, Santa Fe Justice Makers.  Join this group and visit regularly!

Justice teams

For our current justice activities, click here and/or read the UU Santa Fe Weekly eNewsletter.
Featuring UU Santa Fe member, Ken Mayers
UUSC Comprehensive SJ Resource List
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.―John F. Kennedy
UU Santa Fe Justice Teams
All UU Santa Fe justice teams welcome all participants at any time. You don't have to be on a team to participate in UU Santa Fe justice initiatives. Our teams work together, supporting each other, facilitated by our Justice Council. Engage! Our current issue teams:
  • Immigrant & Refugee Justice Team led by Gale Wasserman and Laura Brockington
  • Environmental Justice Team led by Jean Darling
  • Domestic Violence Awareness Team led by Leona Stucky-Abbott and Cheryl Ancell
  • UUs United Against Gun Violence Task Force led by Carrie Morgan Cannella & Kathryn Holladay​
  • Legislative Advocacy Task Force led by Kitty Sherlock
  • RESULTS Hunger & Poverty led by Kitty Sherlock
  • First Sunday Giving Task Force led by Susan Worley and Renee Elsen
Our justice strategy is to find community partners that are actively engaged in "boots on the ground" initiatives, cultivate relationships of trust, and ultimately "resource and flank" the efforts that they are leading.
All UU Santa Fe justice teams welcome participation from anybody at any time. Engage!

UU Santa Fe Justice Teams


 

​Immigrant & Refugee

BorderLinks―Celebrating building bridges, not walls.
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Changing Systems, Changing Ourselves: Anti-Racism Practice for Sanctuary, Accompaniment, and Resistance | American Friends Society & UU Service Committee
An excellent webinar series exploring issues that enable us in the non-immigrant community to engage deeply in the issues that effect our friends so intensely and sometimes tragically, click here.
​Immigration and Refugee Justice Team Activities
Be aware that the initiatives around immigration and refugee support and advocacy can change daily. Oftentimes more quickly than our website can keep up with. So, pay attention to our UU Santa Fe Events and News page, our Facebook page and your email for the latest information.

Our Immigrant & Refugee Community Collaborators & Allies
  • Adelante
  • Somos Un Pueblo Unido (SOMOS)
  • Santa Fe Dreamers Project
  • Gerard's House
  • Faith Network for Immigrant Justice
  • New Mexico Faith Coalition for Immigrant Justice and other organizations that focus on immigrant needs and immigration reform
  • Retake our Democracy (which has a broader mandate than just immigration issues)  and other immigrant-friendly organizations
  • Transgender Resource Center of NM, working with transgender inmates in the Cibola County ICE facility
  • New Mexico Immigrant Law Center
  • Santa Fe Community Foundation
​Resources for More Information
  • Unitarian Universalist Sanctuary Pledge Congregations
  • As a rich source about the issues of Sanctuary - please explore the information on Sanctuary Not Deportation
  • For a comprehensive look at offering Sanctuary - please read this "Sanctuary Toolkit" from the UUA
  • For information about the legal rights of offering Sanctuary, please read: "The case for nongovernmental sanctuary for immigrants"
  • Deciphering the Recent Threats to Asylum in America, from HIAS
  • From Lutheran Refugee Services: "Locking Up Family Values: The Detention of Immigrant Families"
  • For up-to-date news and actions go to Detention Watch Network
  • No More Deaths |  Trump Administration Violated Religious Liberty Of Border Volunteers, Judge Finds 

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”―Elie Wiesel
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ENVIRONMENTAL

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Resources
  • New Mexico Climate Action
  • Green Fire Times
  • Green Fusion Santa Fe
  • New Energy Economy
  • Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce
Environmental Justice Team
With UU passion for nature as a spiritual gateway, and New Mexico being increasingly impacted by droughts, fires and water scarcity, the environment is a crucial area needing our work and care. 
 
The UU Santa Fe Board recently approved our community joining the UUA and many other UU congregations in signing the “We Are Still In” letter supporting the Paris Climate Accord of 2015.
 
UU Santa Fe also has signed onto the UUA “Declaration of Conscience” in response to the 2017 call from the UUA President and UUSC President and CEO, “to protect the values of our democracy and those vulnerable populations among us.”

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
​―Aldo Leopold
Our Team's Connections
  • 350 Santa Fe
  • Amigos Bravos
  • Citizens Climate Lobby
  • Climate Defenders (NM)
  • Earth Care
  • Food Policy Alliance
  • Grand Canyon Association
  • National Park Foundation
  • NM Wild​
  • Santa Fe Forest
  • Santa Fe Watershed
  • Sierra Club
  • WildEarth Guardians
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Domestic Violence Awareness

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Domestic Violence Indicators
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Domestic Violence Awareness Team -  Led by Leona Stucky-Abbott and Cheryl Ancell
​Our Team resources and flanks Healing Voices - Personal Stories and Esperanza Shelter. Contact Leona or Cheryl through the UU Santa Fe Office if you are interested joining this team and supporting its efforts.

​"Domestic violence (also called intimate partner violence (IPV), domestic abuse or relationship abuse) is a pattern of behaviors used by one partner to maintain power and control over another partner in an intimate relationship."

Our collaborators
  • Healing Voices - Personal Stories
  • Esperanza Shelter
  • The New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Awareness Resources
  • Gender Based Violence
  • Domestic Violence and Coronavirus: Hell Behind Closed Doors
  • Domestic Violence Increasing During Isolation
  • The Coronavirus Could Cause a Child Abuse Epidemic
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UU's United Against Gun Violence

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UUs United Against Gun Violence Task Force
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This team "resources and flanks" wider Santa Fe community gun violence prevention initiatives―they get the word out to our UU Santa Fe community to engage in broader community activism.​

​Our community collaborators:
  • ​New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence
  • Mom's Demand Action
  • Open Secrets
  • Follow the Money
  • Gun Violence Archive 2020
Gun Violence Prevention
National Organizations
  1. The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
  2. Everytown for Gun Safety
  3. The Brady Campaign 
  4. Newtown Action Alliance
  5. The Violence Policy Center
  6. Americans for Responsible Solutions
  7. States United to Prevent Gun Violence 
  8. Stop Handgun Violence HV 
“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”―Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
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Results Poverty advocacy

To learn more about RESULTS, contact:
  • Lydia Pendley
    505.989.1154
  • Kitty Sherlock  
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  1. Federal and state programs that RESULTS advocates for 
  2. Organizations we work with
RESULTS―Advocacy for those struggling with chronic poverty
​RESULTS is not a UU Santa Fe group; however, we have a deep and cooperative relationship with the RESULTS group who in non-pandemic times meets on our campus. Have you ever wished you could do something―something effective―to help people struggling with poverty? There is a movement of passionate, committed, “everyday” people, who together use their voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty.  This organization is RESULTS, a non-partisan, non-profit, nationwide group of volunteers whose goal is creating the political will to end poverty, both globally and in the US.
 
RESULTS volunteers receive training, support, and inspiration to become skilled advocates. They learn to effectively advise policy makers, guiding them towards decisions that improve access to education, health, and economic opportunity. Volunteers multiply their impact through the enormous power of advocacy—whether it’s helping change policy to support millions of families putting food on the table or helping raise billions of dollars for the world’s most vulnerable children.
 
RESULTS chapters now exist in every state in the US and in 20 other countries. UU Santa Fe hosts the Santa Fe RESULTS chapter. We meet at UU Santa Fe at 10:15 am on the second Saturday of every month, to plan our advocacy actions. Our primary focus this year is on:
  • Earned Income Tax credit
  • Child Tax Credit
  • Lower income housing--expanding access to affordable housing
  • SNAP
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First Sunday Giving

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First Sunday Giving
​The Justice Council and issue teams vets and schedules various, social service nonprofits to receive the abundance of our UU Santa Fe Sunday gathering collection. We bias toward smaller, local organizations with whom our Issue Teams have a working relationship. Here are our recent recipients. You can look more closely at these organizations by clicking on the links below. If you have local organizations to recommend, do so! Once a month, we highlight an organization during our Sunday service―we collect cash and checks made out directly to the recipient organization (not UU Santa Fe!). In 2018-2019 we collected and dispersed over $10,000 to local nonprofit organizations.

2021 1st Sunday Giving Recipients
  • ​Jan Santa Fe Mutual Aid (donate)

2020 1st Sunday Giving Recipients
  • January Coming Home Connection
  • February Casa Cielo
  • March Domestic Violence partner - Esperanza Shelter
  • April Food Depot (donate)
  • May Santa Fe Mutual Aid (donate)
  • June Somos Un Pueblo Unido (donate)
  • July Native American Relief Fund (donate)
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  • August ​​SFCC Foundation Student Emergency Assistance Fund. Donate here
  • September League of Women Voters of Santa Fe County. Donate here
  • October. Santa Fe Dreamers.  Donate here
  • November. Youth Shelters & Family Services. Donate here
  • December. Food Depot. Donate here.
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EveryDay Giving

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Everyday Giving | In-Kind Donations Supporting our Neighbors
We variously collect food, personal care, and school supplies throughout the year. Three 32-gallon containers are just outside our front gate and available from 9 am-3 pm Monday-Friday (or whenever the front gates are unlocked). Collected supplies go to a variety of local recipients.
Everyday Giving Recipients Include:
  • Adelante
  • Bienvenidos Outreach
  • Casa Familia (St. Elizabeth's Shelters)
  • Interfaith Community Shelter
  • Monte Del Sol Charter School
  • Pueblo of Jemez
  • PRS Santa Fe
Who else belongs here? Let us know.
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UU Santa Fe Justice
​Award programs​

UU Santa Fe Justice Council Manages Several Award Programs
  • Change for Change―a weekly collection of the congregation’s loose change collected in the offering basket. During 2020 our collection will go to the Chainbreaker Collective of Santa Fe
  • Community Service Award―​an annual award for outstanding community justice leaders outside of UU Santa Fe
  • UU Santa Fe Service Award―when we need to celebrate our "own!"

UU Santa Fe Yellow T-shirt Alerts!

From time-to-time UU Santa Fe puts out the call to put on our Side With Love T-shirts and turn out for a march, an event, or at the capital―often at the last minute! Join our crowd!
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Our UUA Justice Ministries

Our UUA justice ministries focus on key priorities for our congregations and communities:
  • economic justice
  • environmental justice
  • immigrant justice
  • international justice
  • gender and sexuality justice―lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer
  • racial justice
  • religious and civil liberties 
  • reproductive justice
  • Justice resources
  • Rally signs

​Justice and Spirit: Unitarian Universalist Online Book Club

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.”―Bryan Stevenson
​Justice and Spirit: Unitarian Universalist Online Book Club
Skinner House Books and Beacon Press offer an online book each month on the GoodReads website. They describe the book club this way: "Life never stops sending new spiritual challenges our way. How do we, as individuals and communities, search for truth and meaning, strive for justice and action, navigate our spiritual journeys, and live out our values? Justice and Spirit: The UU Book Club is a place where all who are interested in spirituality, religion, and justice, whether UU or not, can discuss books that relate to these crucial questions. We hope to foster deep, meaningful conversations and a welcoming and loving environment. All are welcome."

[And our UU Santa Fe Harriet Kidder Memorial Library has many new titles of contemporary thought on justice making.]
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair, and disrespect.―​Nikki Giovanni

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Santa Fe, NM 87505
​​Phone:  505.982.9674

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