Thanks to the congregation, we had a great year in the Lobby Room with over 3100 legislative contacts reported! Some highlights of the legislation are described below. The Lobby Room is a collaboration between EUUC Social Justice Committees, specifically Advocates for Women, Peace & Justice, and … read more.
First Chicago, then Atlanta, and now other cities are talking about building police training facilities designed to train police in urban combat and citizen control. This is a horrific idea for a number of reasons:
–Police are already too aggressive, with police killings … read more.
Written By: Deb Bauder – 3/15/2023 (updated 4/24/2023)
Imagine having a niece who is 3 months pregnant going to her obstetrician due to bleeding and being told to go to the ER if it happens again. When she again experiences bleeding the next day and goes … read more.
Adopt A Stream Foundation is the Sunday cause of the month for April. It was established to ensure that Pacific Northwest streams continue to provide healthy spawning and rearing habitat for salmon, trout, steelhead, and other wildlife. They also work to maintain … read more.
South Snohomish County Emergency Cold Weather Shelter is the March Cause of the month. The South Snohomish County Emergency Cold Weather Shelter is a volunteer run organization that provides a warm place to sleep and a hot meal to anyone when nights … read more.
Books To Prisoners is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and break the cycle of recidivism. They believe that books are tools for learning and for … read more.
If you’ve been around the reproductive justice movement at all, you’ve probably heard the term “crisis pregnancy center.” Not just an annoyance, crisis pregnancy centers do real harm to real people. Here’s a rundown of what’s bad about them.
What harm do CPCs do?
Crisis pregnancy centers … read more.
Many challenges await the 2023 state legislature’s 105-day budget session, which starts January 10. Let’s build on our past successes to promote those bills that our mission and UU principles guide us to support. Only one week later, bills are beginning to move quickly, so … read more.
Written by: Barbara Ford – A4W News Group
Although men have been sympathetic and supportive of reproductive rights, they often don’t know what they can do, or feel uncomfortable talking with other men about what has been a traditionally “woman’s issue.”
What is Reproductive Justice?
What is reproductive … read more.
In the quiet time between Christmas and New Year, 17 members and friends of Advocates for Women, the Racial Justice Committee, and the Reproductive Justice Work Group held a work party at EUUC to put together abortion aftercare kits. Planned Parenthood of Seattle provided the … read more.
