AIW approved: ‘Clean Up the Clean Energy Bill’
Delegates approved AIW 4, “Clean Up the Clean Energy Bill,” after debating an amendment to reinstate deleted language that would have advocated a halt to offshore oil drilling. Delegates rejected that...
View ArticleAIW fails: End the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan
In a close vote, AIW 6, “End the U.S. War in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” fell short of the two-thirds vote needed for approval. The sponsor of the resolution, Harvard Divinity School professor Daniel...
View ArticleFilm: Rep. Keith Ellison’s address to General Assembly
The UUA has posted the speech Rep. Keith Ellison delivered to the General Assembly during Plenary 4 on Saturday.
View ArticleMessage of sorrow for Transylvanian Unitarians
The Rev. Eric Cherry, director of international resources for the UUA, issued the following statement on Sunday in response to the news this morning of the murder-suicide of two children by a...
View ArticleApproved: Request for covenant of ‘right relationship’
Jody Malloy, a delegate from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County in Media, Pa., offered a responsive resolution in response to the Moderator’s Report. The responsive resolution called...
View ArticleRejected: Call for social witness process review
During the final plenary Sunday afternoon, delegates rejected a proposed responsive resolution that would have called on the Board of Trustees to to appoint a task force to review the way...
View ArticleUU Humanists elect new president, hold day-long conference
On Saturday, more than 100 members and friends of the HUUmanist Association “came home” to the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis, the congregation where John Dietrich became known as the “father...
View ArticlePassed: Youth Caucus vision of 2012 General Assembly
In the scramble to wrap up our coverage of the 2010 General Assembly, UU World published reports on three of the four proposed Responsive Resolutions presented during Sunday afternoon’s final plenary,...
View ArticleTexts of proposed responsive resolutions
Here are the texts of the four responsive resolutions introduced during the final plenary session at the UUA’s 2010 General Assembly. These are unofficial versions, as presented to the delegates; final...
View ArticleAl Franken: ‘You are my favorite kind of church’
Senator Al Franken stopped by the UUA General Assembly in Minneapolis on Sunday. The UUA has published video of his address to YouTube in two parts:
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