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Support 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 MoreWater testing was too good for ag polluting companies, so the legislature cut $500,000
Two legislators, Senators Tom Shipley, and Dan Zumbach pressured University of Iowa officials not to allow Jones to continue posting on the University of Iowa-hosted website, with an implied threat of legislative funding to the university being impacted. After allowing Jones one final post, which university officials censored, Jones is moving his commentary off-site. He offered his resignation shortly afterward.
Read MoreEarth Day Celebration
Armando, a Guatemalan environmentalist, shares his dream of reforestation when his seedlings planted by UU volunteers grow into a healthy trees and the beginnings of a forest. Check out the video!
Read MoreTissue Issue: Who gives a…
Who wouldn’t want to save the Boreal Forest? It is a Canadian wilderness sacred to indigenous people, where a unique ecosystem thrives and sequesters carbon. All of us can take action! Every day!
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 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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