Unitarian Universalist FaithAction NJ
A UU voice for justice, equity and compassion in NJ
UU FaithAction NJ’s Environmental Justice Task Force (EJTF) is pleased to share that Mike Skelly is serving as its new Chair. A long-time member of the Task Force and lead with the group’s work with the NJ Environmental Education Commissions & Student Learning Standards, Mike brings critical expertise from his experiences in his professional career.
By Thomas Moran
At the January 2026 monthly meeting of the Criminal Justice Reform Task Force (CJR-TF), after a rather bitterly disappointing “lame duck” session of the Legislature, the task force decided to brainstorm around all the objectives we had been holding, and all the strains that called for attention, but never seemed to get enough traction to actually launch a powerful effort.
By Regina Branca, Reproductive Justice Task Force
Nationally the targeted attacks on transgender people have been getting coverage in the news. However, you may not be aware of the coordinated efforts taking place here, in NJ, to overturn policy 5756 that protects the privacy of transgender students in our public schools – some of which were successful.
By Marty Rothfelder
The Faith Action Immigration Justice Task Force has been active for months in collation with other groups on legislation designed to provide protections for immigrants from data on their immigration status being unnecessarily required, disclosed, or shared and other related protections. At the end of December, Assembly Speaker Coughlin offered that instead of passing the Immigration Trust Act (ITA) itself, he offered to work to pass the substance of the ITA bill in three new bills.
By Tom Moran
Two great friends of UU FaithAction NJ received clemency from lifelong parole in Governor Murphy’s Clemency initiative. Both have spoken to the Criminal Justice Reform Task Force breakouts at Fall Issues Conferences.
December 8, 2025
Despite frigid temperatures and high winds, representatives from numerous advocacy organizations across the State rallied on Monday to push Senate and Assembly leadership to pass the seven priority bills that are part of the People’s Agenda.
Carol Loscalzo & Jami Thall
Co-Chairs, Reproductive Justice Task Force
The Reproductive Justice Task Force has been busy this fall, with multiple projects underway.
In November, UU FaithAction celebrated it’s second anniversary of Action Hour. Here are some impact statistics:
In two years, we’ve made:
We’ve discussed policies and action with 158 individuals, averaging about 16 people in each Action Hour call.
An alliance of more than 30 advocacy groups say lawmakers must pass critical legislation to ensure New Jersey is a more welcoming, equitable, accessible, and just state
Written by Pat Radtke
Edited by Suzanne Apel
On a beautiful Saturday in October, UU FaithAction members from around the state gathered in Princeton to renew our commitment to social justice and strategize how to best advocate for our values to be realized at the legislative level and in the world.