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Day 15: We Are the Love People

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Today is Day 15 of the Thirty Days of Love. Today’s action is to share our new Standing on the Side of Love video  with your friends and family. Click here for resources, family actions, and more! Click here to sign up for the daily Thirty Days of Love emails.

Have you ever struggled to explain our campaign to your friends and family as you encourage them to get involved? Ever felt stumped by what exactly it means to “stand on the side of love”?

Well, we’ve got you covered! Standing on the Side of Love produced this fun, inspiring message about who we are and what we do:

For today’s action, share the video with your friends and family, and encourage them join us on our spiritual journey for social justice! We are only halfway through our Thirty Days of Love, and there are plenty more great actions coming up, including getting involved in compassionate immigration reform, exploring how creativity lifts up our work, and of course, celebrating National Standing on the Side of Love Day!

In faith,

Jennifer Toth
Campaign Manager
Standing on the Side of Love

PS: Save the date for our Thirty Days of Love closing service! We’re partnering with the Church of the Larger Fellowship to come together online to celebrate the Thirty Days on Sunday, February 17 at 8:00pm ET and Monday, February 18 at 9:00am and 1:30pm ET. Stay tuned for more details!

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Day 7: Help Make Us “Sizzle”

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Today is Day 7 of the Thirty Days of Love. Today’s action is to join our Facebook chat today at 4pm ET/1pm PT. Click here for more resources, family actions, and more! Click here to sign up for the daily Thirty Days of Love emails.

I hope you are as excited as I am about the first week of our Thirty Days of Love–what a journey it has already been! I have been so moved to read the words of our partners, from Michelle Alexander encouraging us to start a conversation on mass incarceration, to celebrating the 40th anniversary of Roe, to hearing from Cesar Chavez’s granddaughter. Wow.

Now, we want to hear from you! Join our chat on Facebook today at 4pm ET/1pm PT and tell us what you envision for the future of our campaign.

We want to talk about how we can continue to not only make our work as loving as possible, but also how to give it some pizazz, some spice. Never done a Facebook chat before? No worries–simply visit our Facebook page at the appropriate time and add a comment to our post introduing the chat.

Here at the Standing on the Side of Love Campaign HQ, we shorten our really fantastic (but long) name down to SSL, or the first letters of the prominent words of the campaign. The fun part? We pronounce SSL as “sizzle” and it is a reminder to us to keep what we do fun, and fresh, and well, sizzling! We’ll share these and other fun facts during our chat, so join us today.

If you can’t join the chat, please feel free to email us at love@uua.org with questions in advance and we can share our responses both during the chat, and directly to you.

Let’s sizzle together,

Jennifer Toth
Campaign Manager
Standing on the Side of Love

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Using the Inauguration as a Reminder to Rededicate Ourselves

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Photobooth volunteers (Michelle Molitor, Cindy Morgan-Jaffe, Caroline Hill, Carmen Carrera), with Associate Minister Rev. Dr. Susan Newman and Social Justice Minister Cathy Rion Starr.

One couldn’t ignore the Presidential Inauguration here in the nation’s Capitol. So at All Souls Church in Washington, DC, we held our own inaugural ball on Sunday  to celebrate all the hard work of the election and to rededicate ourselves to the challenges ahead. As our Senior Minister the Rev. Rob Hardies says, “We’re not just inaugurating a president, we’re inaugurating a people.”

The live band kept the dance floor full as Unitarian Universalists and others dressed in better-than-Sunday-best danced, talked, and laughed with each other.  Meanwhile, in the corner of the hall, we captured snapshots of attendees with the President.  But this wasn’t just any photobooth!  The banner above the (cardboard) President read: “Mr. President, I pledge my commitment to….”  Our distinguished guests (aka, congregants) held signs for our priority justice issues.  The photobooth added another element of fun to the party (and to coffee hour after worship that morning), but it also reminded us that it’s time to recommit ourselves to build a movement for peace, environmental justice, migrant rights, affordable housing, and more.

 The photobooth reminded us that now is not the time to sit idly by, watching to see if Obama can continue the legacy of “Seneca, Selma, and Stonewall,” but rather, now is the time to rededicate ourselves to bending the arc of the universe toward justice, together.

Yes, we plan to deliver the photos to the White House, but more than that, we will follow up with all those who got their photo taken (check out some of our photos here) to make sure they’re engaged with our justice ministries.  Together, we will keep working to “inaugurate a people”  and to build a movement of spiritually grounded, strategic, and fun-loving people of faith.

In faith,

Cathy Rion Starr
Director of Social Justice Ministries
All Souls Church – Unitarian

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Introducing…

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I am so thrilled to introduce myself as the new Standing on the Side of Love Campaign Manager. I am humbled by all of the great work this movement has already accomplished and I can’t wait to see where else we can go from here.

I want to hear from you and learn more about what you envision for the future of this campaign. Feel free to contact me anytime at love@uua.org to ask questions, share ideas, or just say hi!

Together, let’s put our faith in action and stand on the side of love.

In faith & justice,

Jennifer Toth
Campaign Manager
Standing on the Side of Love

The message above went out on Friday, November 30, 2012 to Standing on the Side of Love supporters. You can sign-up for these emails here.

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Stay Informed with Standing on the Side of Love Twitter Lists

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twitter_birdHere at Standing on the Side of Love, we are consistently amazed by how Twitter can act as a platform for disseminating information that is neglected and ignored by the mainstream media. The people and organizations that we follow on Twitter are always a-buzz with social justice news that we simply can’t find anywhere else.

In an effort to make this kind of invaluable word-of-mouth information more widely available to our supporters, we’ve created three Twitter lists–curated feeds of tweets from selected Twitter users–on topics that are relevant to our work. These lists act as a cultivated news sources for the issues at the heart of the Standing on the Side of Love campaign.

Our lists are:

  • Interfaith Advocacy: activists and organizations that are working at the intersections of faith, social justice, and public policy.
  • LGBTQ Equality: organizations that are working on key LGBTQ equality issues both at the state and federal levels.
  • Migrant Justice: organizations that are active on a number of migrant justice issues including Border Patrol abuse, detention, the DREAM Act, and comprehensive immigration reform.

Please take a moment to subscribe to our new Twitter lists. Even if you don’t use Twitter, you can still bookmark the link so that you can return to the feed at your leisure.

If you have a favorite Twitter feed that we’ve missed, feel free to send us an email at love@uua.org to let us know!

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