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UU FaithAction NJ Celebrates Two Years of Action Hour! 🎉
In November, UU FaithAction celebrated it’s second anniversary of Action Hour. Here are some impact statistics:
In two years, we’ve made:
- 766 phone calls
- 593 emails
We’ve discussed policies and action with 158 individuals, averaging about 16 people in each Action Hour call.
Tell your lawmakers to Pass the People’s Lame Duck Agenda
UU FaithAction has joined with more than 30 other advocacy organizations in this state to call for passing the People’s Lame Duck Legislative Agenda.
Contact your legislators today to urge their support!
NJ Advocacy Organizations Launch “People’s Agenda” To Pass Critical Social Justice Legislation in Lame Duck
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
2025 Issues Conference
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.
Issues Conference Agenda and Zoom Link
UU FaithAction Fall Issues Conference
“Meet the Moment”
Agenda
Zoom Link
Chalice Lighting, Opening Words and Welcome
Rev. Bill Neely
Minister, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton
Greetings
Rev. Charles Loflin,
Executive Director, UU FaithAction NJ
Meet the Moment: An Update from the Board of Trustees
Rev. Andrée Mol,
Central Unitarian Church, Westwood, NJ
Meet the Moment: Starting Where We Are
Meet the Moment: The Role for Faith Based Social Justice Advocacy
Keynote Presentation
Rev. Dr. Charles Boyer,
Founder, Salvation and Social Justice
Q&A
Meet the Moment: An Invitation to Generosity
Marty Rothfelder,
Immigration Justice Task Force Chair
Beacon UU Congregation in Summit
Meet the Moment: Introducing the People’s Legislative Agenda
Lunch and Task Force Breakout Sessions
Meet the Moment: Educate, Advocate, Mobilize
Chalice Extinguishing
Meet the Moment: March to Join the No Kings Rally at Monument Park
Thank You, Immigration Justice Task Force!
By Marlene Miller
On August 24th, I attended a vigil outside of the Delaney Hall detention center coordinated by several coalition partners including Pax Christie NJ and First Friends. Our coalition partners were so grateful for the Immigration Justice Reform Task Force’s (IJTF) donation of $500 worth of Shoprite gift cards! Volunteers were able to hand the cards out to folks visiting their loved ones, and our donation made up almost 3/4ths of the grocery cards donated that day. They thanked me so many times for bringing these cards, and it was a great opportunity for me to meet other folks who share our interests. I highly recommend going to help out if you can! Although folks were in and out of the detention center the whole time I was there, at the time I was leaving there was a line of about 60 visitors waiting to see their loved ones.
Responding to the Anti-Trans Movement Course
Rehabilitative Release Memo
By Tom Moran, Criminal Justice Reform Task Force Chair
For some time, we have been working to publicize and build support for a Rehabilitative Release Act, Senate Bill 2338/Assembly Bill 4463, in our NJ Legislature. We have collected petition signatures and called and emailed our legislators on Action Friday. As we approach the gubernatorial and legislative elections in November and the “lame duck” legislative session following that, we are ramping up for the next push.
Remembering Al Stawsky
By Rev. Rob Gregson
We are sad to share the belated news that longtime UUFANJ member and activist, Al Stawsky of UU Congregation of the Palisades in Englewood NJ, died on May 21, 2025.