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The Learning Space at Unitarian Universalist Society (UUS)
Iowa’s new anti-LGBTQ+ legislation makes a toxic school environment more likely. So UUS is opening its building and creating a safe Learning Space for trans, queer, and other marginalized children and youth.
Read MoreIowa Pride Events
June is Pride month for many communities. Whether you identify as LGBTQ+ or an ally, show up and celebrate Pride to send a loud and proud message to our fellow Iowans and politicians that we respect the inherent worth and dignity of EVERY person! Read more to find an event near you.
Read MoreRead the IUUWAN May Newsletter
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Read MoreSupport a Farm Bill That Works for Iowans
If you want a farm bill that supports SNAP benefits, protects the environment, communities, and water sources, provides justice for Black farmers, and ensures the health and safety of those who work the land, send this postcard to your U.S. Senators and Representative.
Read MoreRead the IUUWAN April Newsletter
See what’s happening at several of Iowa’s UU congregations, including live music events, Earth Day and Earth Week events, narratives about growing food, reducing multigenerational poverty through sentencing reform and more.
Read MoreWebinar by Jean Eells: Changing Narratives about Growing Food
The soil that grows food is in danger as widespread tillage practices cause a steady, invisible degradation of soil, harming microbes essential for growing plants. Renewal and resilience is possible, necessary, and urgently needed! On Thursday, April 13, learn about steps everyone can take to work the levers of change.
Read MoreRegister for One Iowa’s 2023 Legislative Session Recap
Iowa’s legislature proposed 31 anti-LGBTQ bills. Four were passed by the legislature and 27 were defeated. One Iowa will be conducting a legislative session recap webinar on May 11th at 6pm. Read more to register for this webinar.
Read MoreSix Iowa UU Congregations Have Adopted the 8th Principle
Six of Iowa’s UU congregations have joined with more than 200 nationwide that have adopted an 8th Principle, committing to dismantling racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions.
Read MoreA Possibility: Evolving from Principles to Values
At this year’s UUA General Assembly delegates from your congregation and others across the country will vote on whether or not to adopt revisions to UUA Bylaws that emphasize love and justice, anti-racism and anti-oppression language, and explicit statements of our Values rather than our Principles.
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