Social Justice
The Social Justice Committee is currently focusing on projects in Food and Shelter Security, Racial Justice, LGBTQI recognition and protection, Immigration Justice, and Environmental Justice.
UU Westside Social Justice Committee meets on the 4th Sunday of each month in the UUWC Conference Room. Join us.
Welcoming Congregation
We know that religious spaces haven’t always been welcoming places for all people, especially when it comes to gender and sexuality. We are out to change that.
Since conception, UUWC has worked hard to make sure lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people are full members of our faith communities. Being welcoming means striving for radical inclusion, and creating spaces that honor every part of our identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
UUWC worked with First Unitarian of Albuquerque in the Pride Fest 2024, including the parade in Albuquerque on June 8, 2024. Here’s some photos of our members and friends participating in the Parade:
Health Care Justice
UUWC supports reform of the healthcare system that the United States currently uses. Make no mistake: The United States has the resources and information to ensure healthcare to every single person within our country, from conception to death. However, by granting profit-driven insurance, hospital, drug, nursing home, and hospice companies the power to ration care, policy-makers have made it so that millions of people every year forgo needed medical treatment, millions more are pushed into debt and financial turmoil by healthcare expenses, and we lack adequate trust in government, in medicine, and in one another to stage an effective response to the current crisis.
Find out more at Health Care and Coverage for All Working Group
Immigrant Justice
Border Report and Project:
for the children’s travel from Deming to their new sponsors all over the US. If yo
would like to help, here are the items we need: Our goal is 100 backpacks!
1. Peanut butter crackers
2. Coloring or activity books (any age)
3. Crayons regular or flesh color packet
4. Colored pencils and sharpeners
5. Mini sized stuffed animals
6. Stickers
Thank You!
Helping Asylum Seekers at the New Mexico Border
Border Justice Project
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Silver City
Go to website below for money donations: (online giving is MATCHED BY GRANT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION)
https://www.givegrandly.org/organizations/unitarian-universalist-fellowship-of-silver-city
Immigrant Rights are Human Rights.
When immigrants were still allowed to come into the Albuquerque area, members of our congregation worked through the New Mexico Faith Coalition for Immigrant Justice and Catholic Charities in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho to bring immigrants food (for cooking), meals we cooked, pizzas we bought, and cookies.
We also served meals to immigrants and one of us participated in a four-day immersion program in El Paso, Texas— a program that was designed to help volunteers became aware of the conditions of immigrants at and near the border, as well as what officials and volunteers were doing.
We denounce the abusive treatment of people at our borders and the separation of families. Documented and undocumented immigrants alike are often denied the civil rights protections of citizens, paid less than citizens, labor in unsafe and unhealthy conditions, and/or are forced to work and live without pay under the threat of violence. In the United States, increased border security has resulted in undocumented immigrants crossing in more dangerous and remote areas where basic human needs such as drinking water do not exist.
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Christian Nationalism threatens Separation of Church and State
Green Sanctuary
Being a Green Sanctuary is one of the ways we work toward a vision of a healthier, more sustainable future.
As a recognized Green Sanctuary, we live with a deep awareness of our climate crisis and the deep environmental injustices of our time. We commit to four practices, grounded in Unitarian Universalist principles:
- Environmental Justice: We partner with marginalized communities who are hit first and hardest by environmental crisis. In partnering with these communities we are able to address human and environmental needs at the same time.
- Worship and Celebration: As we work together towards a cleaner, more just, and sustainable world, worship inspires our work and reminds us of what is most sacred and most true.
- Religious Education: Our workshops and programs for all ages shape attitudes and build practices that are sustainable and spiritually-grounded.
- Sustainable Living: We treat the world more gently by using fewer resources and being mindful of the choices we make, both as a congregation and as households.
