Unitarian Universalist FaithAction NJ

Friday Action Hour
2025-12-05 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-28 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-21 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
“Friday Action Hour” — Every Friday
Join us at 12 noon, on Zoom, to TAKE ACTION together!
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At our 2023 Fall Issues Conference, we officially announced the launch of a new initiative for UU FaithAction NJ—”First Fridays Action Hour.” Our Action Hour is inspired by and modeled after the successful program of our sibling state action network, UU Justice North Carolina.
UU FaithAction NJ now hosts a one-hour Zoom meeting on the every Friday, 12 noon to 1pm. During that time, we take action together, in real-time! For those who cannot join us at 12pm on Friday, we provide a Google Doc with all necessary instructions.
An action could be almost anything, like making a phone call to key legislators to express your support for a bill. We briefly outline the talking points, provide you with a sample script and then the phone number of the legislators to call. And you make the call right there—in real time.
You don’t have to prepare. You don’t have to commit to coming to every single Action Hour. This is not a committee, nor a commitment—it is a come-as-you-are-able opportunity!
Can’t join us on a particular Friday, or maybe noon is just never gonna work for your schedule? No problem! The Google Doc will have all the information you need so that you can take the action at a time convenient for you. Not only that— we hope you will share the action with your congregation or community, and our one little pebble can start to produce ripples.

League of Women Voters Navigating the Lame Duck Session: Advocacy Strategies for the Final Push
2025-12-03 18:00 - 19:00
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EST)
Online
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Join us for a discussion on how to make the most of the Lame Duck session, what actions you can still take to advance your campaigns, and how to prepare to respond effectively during these final weeks of the legislative calendar.

People's Agenda: In-District Lobby Day
2025-12-02 09:00 - 17:00
People’s Agenda statewide day of action to visit the legislative offices. More info to come.

HOLD for People's Agenda Lobbying
2025-12-01, 2025-11-17 | NJ State House, 125 West State Street, Trenton, 08625

Reproductive Justice Task Force Monthly Call
2025-11-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
The monthly conference call to update and strategize around reproductive justice and rights in New Jersey. Join us monthly on the fourth Monday, 7-8 PM.
For Zoom invitation and agenda, please email reprojustice@uufaithaction.org attn. Carol Loscalzo, Task Force Chair.
Carol A. Loscalzo and Jami Thall are Task Force Co-Chairs. For more information on reproductive justice, please email reprojustice@uufaithaction.org attn. Carol Loscalzo and Jami Thall.
For general inquiries about our Task Forces, email admin@uufaithaction.org.

UU Congregation at Montclair Pajama Party Bash
2025-11-22 18:00 - 21:00 | 67 Church Street Montclair, NJ 07042, 67 Church Street, Montclair, NJ, 07042, United States
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025
6pm – 9pm
67 Church St.,
Montclair, NJ 07042
Contact: Bash@UUMontclair.org

Mutual Aid March and Rally
2025-11-22 12:00 - 15:00 | The Green, 4 Spring St, Newton, United States
RALLY & MARCH FOR MUTUAL AID
THE EXTRA MILE
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 12pm – 3pm
THE GREEN, 4 SPRING ST., NEWTON
Right now Republicans are refusing to protect critical healthcare and nutrition programs which will result in 42 million Americans losing the benefits that keep their families fed. When those in power hoard resources and use our government to punish people, we answer with collective care and resistance, feeding our bodies and fueling our movement.
Join us at the Newton Green at 4 Spring St from 12PM-3PM to march, rally, connect with organizations, and donate food, household, and personal care products to support families in need. Donations will be delivered to local non-profit organizations to distribute to those in need.
SPONSORED BY SUSSEX COUNTY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION & IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIVISIBLE SUSSEX

Third Friday Action Hour
2025-11-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
“Friday Action Hour” — The 1st & 3rd Friday of every month!
Join us at 12 noon, on Zoom, to TAKE ACTION together!
➱➱ bit.ly/1st-fridays

Join us on Zoom!
Topic: Friday Action Hour
Every month on the First Friday, 12 PM
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At our 2023 Fall Issues Conference, we officially announced the launch of a new initiative for UU FaithAction NJ—”First Fridays Action Hour.” Our Action Hour is inspired by and modeled after the successful program of our sibling state action network, UU Justice North Carolina.
UU FaithAction NJ now hosts a one-hour Zoom meeting on the first & third Friday of every month, 12 noon to 1pm. During that time, we take action together, in real-time! For those who cannot join us at 12pm on Friday, we provide a Google Doc with all necessary instructions.
An action could be almost anything, like making a phone call to key legislators to express your support for a bill. We briefly outline the talking points, provide you with a sample script and then the phone number of the legislators to call. And you make the call right there—in real time.
You don’t have to prepare. You don’t have to commit to coming to every single Action Hour. This is not a committee, nor a commitment—it is a come-as-you-are-able opportunity!
Can’t join us on a particular Friday, or maybe noon is just never gonna work for your schedule? No problem! The Google Doc will have all the information you need so that you can take the action at a time convenient for you. Not only that— we hope you will share the action with your congregation or community, and our one little pebble can start to produce ripples.

US Airstrikes in the Caribbean and Implications for Domestic Militarization in U.S. Cities
2025-11-20 20:00 - 21:30 | Zoom
Thursday, November 20
8:00 p.m. ET • 7:00 p.m. CT • 6:00 p.m. MT • 5:00 p.m. PT
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Brett Heinz, Global Policy Coordinator for Economic and Climate Justice, American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers), will speak to us about U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean, the broader history of efforts to merge the War on Drugs with the War on Terror, and implications we need to be aware of for the Trump administration’s domestic militarization and threats to use the Insurrection Act to target U.S. cities militarily.
Long URL: https://uusj.salsalabs.org/airstrikesincaribbean/index.html
Addendum:
If you haven’t been clocking the news on the airstrikes and their implications for domestic circumstances, our laws and conventions, the policy maneuvers, here is a catch-up list:

US aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean to confront Maduro, The Telegraph
Trump mulling over Venezuela attack order, The Telegraph
Secret DOJ memo that green-lights US ‘drug boat’ strikes is based entirely on a Trump theory: report, The Independent
Secret Boat Strike Memo Justifies Killings By Claiming the Target Is Drugs, Not People, The Intercept
‘Just following orders’? Experts doubt legal memo shields troops from prosecution over Trump’s boat strikes, The Independent
The Secretive Office Approving Trump’s Boat Strikes, Knight First Amendment Institute
A Secret War on Cartels, After Action Report, Seth Hettena, Substack

IJTF Monthly Meeting
2025-11-20 20:00 - 21:00
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The People’s Agenda: Collective Advocacy to Pass Critical Social Justice Legislation
2025-11-20 18:00 - 19:00 | Zoom
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6 – 7 P.M.
Location: Zoom (link provided upon registration)
Registration Required
As the Trump administration continues its attack on the foundations of our democracy, strong state leadership has never been more important. New Jerseyans are clear: they will fight back against authoritarianism and want elected officials who will do the same. Now is a critical moment for New Jersey to pass legislation that will expand and protect the rights of everyone in the state, as well as ensure corporations and super millionaires pay their fair share in taxes. That’s why we’re urging lawmakers to pass the People’s Agenda and commit to prioritizing social justice during this year’s lame duck session.
Join the ACLU-NJ and our partners on Thursday, November 20 at 6:00 p.m. for a webinar to learn more about the People’s Agenda, and how you can help support key legislation that will make New Jersey more accessible, affordable, safe, and welcoming for all who call it home.

UUFANJ Board Meeting
2025-11-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Members/supporters of UU FaithAction NJ are welcome to attend our monthly all-volunteer Board meetings. To access online meetings (all meetings from March 2020 onward will be conducted online) via the Zoom conferencing platform, please contact Board President Mia Morse, at mia.morse19@gmail.com, and request the Zoom login code. You must give at least 48 hours notice to request the code to allow our volunteer board members enough time to reply.
In the event you do not hear back with 48 hours notice, please contact Executive Director Charles Loflin, at execdir@uufaithaction.org or at (908) 376-6535.
As per our bylaws, the board leadership reserves the right to call an executive session of the board to discuss matters not appropriate for a more public conversation.

UUA Central East Region BIPOC Monthly Gathering
2025-11-19 18:30 - 19:30 | Zoom
If you identify as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), you’re warmly invited to the UUA Central East Region’s monthly BIPOC gathering—a virtual space for connection, reflection, and spiritual grounding. We meet on Zoom every third Wednesday at 6:30pm ET. All BIPOC lay folks, leaders, and religious professionals are welcome.

Register today!

League of Women Voters Activist Training Program: Communicating to Win 201
2025-11-19 18:00 - 19:00
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (EST)
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Build your audience and learn vital tools to connecting online! In this virtual training, participants will learn how to turn their communications plans into action with insights on audience targeting, content planning, and navigating Facebook. This is the second in a multi-series communications training.

Family Detention: Realities and Resistance under Trump 2.0
2025-11-18 17:00 - 18:30 | Zoom
11/18/2025 2 PM – 3:30 PM PT (5 PM – 6:30 PM ET)
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Mensaje bilingüe | Bilingual message
We have all seen the heartbreaking images of families being picked up, zip tied, and terrorized by ICE, Border Patrol, and other masked federal agents. Mothers, fathers, grandparents, teenagers, and little children – family units that start their day together and end up in detention and often separated. What happens when families are taken from our communities? Where are they detained, what happens to the kids, and how many are quietly deported or disappeared?
On Tuesday, November 18 at 5 pm ET/ 4 pm CT/ 2 pm PT, the National Coalition to End Family and Child Detention invites you to join us for an interactive webinar to learn about:

The history of family detention in the U.S.;
The current conditions families face in detention and the policies that fuel this unjust practice;
What people across the country are doing to oppose family detention and protect their communities; and
How you can join the movement to #FreeFamilies from detention once and for all.

In the Trump Administration’s push to deport over 1 million people – with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars funding ICE and CBP to terrorize communities – ICE has revived the practice of family detention in the United States. Family detention—like all immigration detention—is inherently inhumane, unjust and unnecessary. Detention inflicts profound harm on both children and adults that continues long after they are released and is especially traumatizing for children. As a growing number of families are kidnapped, detained, and forcibly removed or disappeared, it has never been more important for us to stand up for justice and for one another.
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Hemes visto las desgarradoras imágenes de familias detenidas, esposadas y aterrorizadas por ICE, la Patrulla Fronteriza y otros agentes federales enmascarados. Madres, padres, abueles, adolescentes y niñes pequeñes: familias que comienzan el día juntas y terminan detenidas, a menudo separadas. ¿Qué sucede cuando las familias son arrancadas de nuestras comunidades? ¿Dónde las detienen? ¿Qué les ocurre a los niñes? ¿Cuántos son deportades en silencio o desaparecen?
La Coalición Nacional para Poner Fin a la Detención de Familias y Menores le invita a participar en un seminario web interactivo el martes 18 de noviembre a las 5 pm ET / 4 pm CT / 2 pm PT, para aprender sobre:

La historia de la detención de familias en los Estado Unidos.;
Las condiciones actuales que enfrentan las familias detenidas y las políticas que sostienen esta práctica injusta;
Qué están haciendo las personas en diferentes partes del país para oponerse a la detención de familias y proteger a sus comunidades; y
Cómo puede unirse al movimiento para #LiberarAFamilias de la detención

La Administración Trump está impulsando la deportación de más de un millón de personas, con cientos de miles de millones de dólares de impuestos que la comunidad paga, financiando a ICE y CBP para aterrorizar a nuestras comunidades. ICE ha reactivado la práctica de la detención familiar en Estados Unidos. La detención familiar, como toda detención migratoria, es inhumana, injusta e innecesaria. La detención inflige un daño profundo tanto a niñes como a adultos, que persiste mucho después de su liberación, y es especialmente traumática para les niñes. Ante el creciente número de familias secuestradas, detenidas, deportadas o desaparecidas, es más importante que nunca que alcemes la voz por la justicia y nes apoyemes mutuamente.

Criminal Justice Reform Monthly Conference Call
2025-11-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Join us on the third Monday of the month from 7–8 PM for our UU statewide Criminal Justice Reform call, where we strategize around issues like racial justice, mass incarceration, prison conditions and more.
For the Zoom or phone dial-up information to join the call, and/or to get on the email list for upcoming meetings and events, please contact admin@uufaithaction.org.

Third Sundays Safe Space
2025-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Beacon (Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Summit), 4 Waldron Avenue, Summit, 07901, United States
LGBTQIA+ 9th-12th Graders and their Allies
Beacon Unitarian Universalist Congregation
4 Waldron Ave, Summit, NJ
3 blocks from the Summit Train Station

Sundays 4-6pm:
2025: 11/16, 12/21,
2026: 1/18, 2/15, 3/15, 4/19 and 5/17

Come as you are. Bring a friend or make a new one. There will be a hot meal and good conversation. Relax in a supportive, understanding community.
Contact Us: Administrator@SummitBeacon.org

STEARNS MATTHEWS IN CONCERT: An Evening of Cabaret and Song
2025-11-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 21 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown, 07960
November 15, 7pm
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Concert to benefit the Mortgage Prevention Fund
Our member congregation, Morristown UU Fellowship, is inviting you to a Cabaret Night featuring Stearns Matthews on November 15 at 7 pm! $40 Early Bird rate till Sunday 11/9, then $50!
The Fellowship has been enjoying their recently completed Al and Minda Chu Family Hall, located in the Gateways Center opened last November. The upcoming concert is a showcase for that space – and also a way for the Fellowship to finish paying for its construction! The Fellowship also has invited our congregation to share our events with them, to build our UU community and to have fun together!
Stearns served as the Fellowship’s Music Director for a number of years, and he and his husband were members at the Montclair UU Congregation for many years. He now lives in Pennsylvania with his growing family and teaches musical theater at the university level.

NAACP From Coast to Coast: Data Driven Solutions for Health Equity
2025-11-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine Medical Education & Research, 3500 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, United States
Location: Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine Medical Education & Research Building, Room 105
3500 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Community Reception starts at 11:00 AM ET; Program begins at 12:00 PM ET
RSVP to save your seat!
Join us in Philadelphia, PA, for the culminating event of the national “ACE Your Health” series, From Coast-to-Coast: Data Driven Solutions for Health Equity. This forum will move from national trends to local realities, diving into the results of the groundbreaking ACE Your Health Community Wellness Survey specific to Philadelphia, which collected over 22,000 responses nationally.
This can’t-miss forum is more than a data review—this is a strategic session for community shareholders and stakeholders, leaders, policymakers, and innovators. This discussion will focus on the survey’s core findings regarding neighborhood resources and assets, health and health care, neighborhood quality and affordability, and the people taking the survey—translating raw data into clear priorities for local action that create a roadmap to operationalize what’s important—the city of Philly.

November Community Defender Training: Habeas Corpus & Immigration Detention
2025-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Friday, November 14, 2025
9:00 am – 11:00 am PT | 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
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Calling all community defenders! Join us on Friday, November 14 for a free virtual training on how habeas petitions can be used to challenge unlawful immigration detention. Training participants will learn the basic elements of a pro se petition and common scenarios defenders may encounter. The session will be held in English with simultaneous Spanish interpretation.
This training will help community defenders understand how habeas petitions are used in the immigration detention context and go over the basic elements of a pro se petition for the most common scenarios.
This training is for non-attorney advocates, including organizers, and others supporting detained community members. This training will be presented in English with Spanish simultaneous interpretation and is not eligible for CLE credit.
Questions? Please contact events@nipnlg.org.

SECOND Friday Action Hour
2025-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
“Friday Action Hour” — Every Friday until the end of the Lame Duck session!*
*(Excludes Nov 28th)
Join us at 12 noon, on Zoom, to TAKE ACTION together!
➱➱ bit.ly/1st-fridays

Join us on Zoom!
Topic: Friday Action Hour
Every month on the First Friday, 12 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
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Our Action Hour is inspired by and modeled after the successful program of our sibling state action network, UU Justice North Carolina.
UU FaithAction NJ now hosts a one-hour Zoom meeting every Friday until Dec 12th, 12 noon to 1pm. During that time, we take action together, in real-time! For those who cannot join us at 12pm on Friday, we provide a Google Doc with all necessary instructions.
An action could be almost anything, like making a phone call to key legislators to express your support for a bill. We briefly outline the talking points, provide you with a sample script and then the phone number of the legislators to call. And you make the call right there—in real time.
You don’t have to prepare. You don’t have to commit to coming to every single Action Hour. This is not a committee, nor a commitment—it is a come-as-you-are-able opportunity!
Can’t join us on a particular Friday, or maybe noon is just never gonna work for your schedule? No problem! The Google Doc will have all the information you need so that you can take the action at a time convenient for you. Not only that— we hope you will share the action with your congregation or community, and our one little pebble can start to produce ripples.

SNAP Funding Maneuvers: Have They Been Legal?
2025-11-13 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Thursday, November 13
8:00 p.m. ET • 7:00 p.m. CT • 6:00 p.m. MT • 5:00 p.m. PT
RSVP online
David A. Super, a professor at Georgetown University, will provide a clear-eyed and experienced assessment of the lawless actions taken by the Trump administration regarding SNAP benefits. He will offer UUSJ chapter and verse on the maneuvers the administration has been deploying, and suggest what we all need to be aware of as this policy circumstance continues to unfold. Even if the government shutdown ends, policy experts expect to see lots of SNAP funding maneuvers for the foreseeable future.
Super is among the foremost experts on SNAP in the U.S., and he is a Unitarian Universalist.

People's Agenda Launch & Virtual Press Conference
2025-11-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
More info to come.

Monthly Congregational Liaisons Meeting
2025-11-12 19:00 - 19:45
Our monthly meeting for Liaisons is held on the second Wednesday of each month at 7pm.
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The Gathering: Rooted in Love, Rising for Justice. A Monthly Gathering by Side With Love
2025-11-10 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
What is The Gathering?
Throughout history, people of faith and conscience have come together to resist injustice and build a better world. Now, it’s our time.
The Gathering is a monthly virtual event from Side With Love designed to equip Unitarian Universalists and justice-seekers with the spiritual grounding, political analysis, and collective action needed to rise to the challenges of this moment.
Each month, participants will:

Strengthen their hearts and spirits through spiritual grounding
Gain a deeper understanding of the threats to democracy and justice
Organize with others to block anti-democratic forces and build a just and loving world

​​Join us every Second Monday of the month at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. We will skip July and come back in August

Register here.

NJ: Pass Immigrant Protections NOW Press Conference and Rally
2025-11-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Grundy Park, J Owen Grundy Park, Hudson St, 07302, United States
SATURDAY 11/8, 12PM
GRUNDY PARK, JERSEY CITY
With the conclusion of the election, we have a lot of work cut out for us to prepare for the incoming legislators. Come advocate for the Immigrant Trust Act with us. Co-sponsored by Lazos, League of Women Voters NJ, AAPI NJ, WadeIn NJ, Wind of the Spirit, First Friends, and more!
