Challenge Key Senators to Support the Search for Truth in Impeachment Hearings
By MUUSJN on Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
Tell Key U.S. Senators: Allow Witnesses & New Testimony During Trump Impeachment Trial Senators Susan Collins – Mitt Romney – Lisa Murkowski – Lamar Alexander Call Senators to Vote for Witnesses at Impeachment Trial The truth matters. That’s why it’s important that the U.S. Senate trial include space for witnesses and new evidence. Please call the following seven Republican Senators. Urge them to vote that new witnesses be allowed to testify at President Trump’s impeachment trial. Those Senators are: Romney, Murkowski, Collins, McSally, Alexander, Gardner and Capito. (Leaving a message on all their phones took me less than 10 minutes.) The vote on allowing witnesses and allowing new evidence to be heard at the trial could happen this week. Recent polling (by SurveyUSA) documented that […]
SAY NO to WAR With IRAN! Call Your U.S. Representative & Protest on January 9th
By MUUSJN on Thursday, January 9th, 2020
Call Your U.S. Representative 1-202-224-3121 (capitol switchboard) Click HERE for List of Our Michigan Congressional Delegation Tell Them — Vote for AUMF Resolution Rallies in Dearborn and 8 More Michigan Cities on Jan 9th The Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network (MUUSJN) joins a chorus of peace, justice and faith organizations calling for protest of President Trump’s assassination of a top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Qassim Suleimani. This is an act of war with a country that #45 has been provoking since he withdrew from the Iranian nuclear arms reduction treaty. TWO OPTIONS FOR ACTION: Call your U.S. Representative. A vote in the U.S. House is expected on January 9th on a resolution that would require President Trump to get approval from Congress (an Authorization of […]
Volunteers Needed to Challenge Right to Life Anti-Choice Ballot Signatures
By MUUSJN on Friday, December 27th, 2019
Volunteers Needed To Help Defeat Abortion Ban Click HERE to Sign Up with Planned Parenthood of Michigan On December 23rd, Michigan Right to Life (RTL) submitted 379,418 signatures on petitions to the Michigan Secretary of State to criminalize dilation and extraction, the most safe, commonly used method of abortion in Michigan. The petition is intended by anti-choice activists to go to the Michigan legislature and avoid a certain veto by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Under Michigan law, this petition drive must get 340,047 valid signatures to go to the Michigan legislature. Here are four reasons this petition is just WRONG for Michigan women and Michigan families: If the proposal is adopted by state legislators, the MI ACLU has said it will challenge it in court. YOUR HELP IS […]
Comment By Dec. 19th on HHS Rule That Undermines Women’s and LGBTQ Rights
By MUUSJN on Friday, December 13th, 2019
Comment on Rule Before 12/19 Click HERE to Offer Your Comments Tell Trump’s Health & Human Services what you think about a rule that would allow federally funded contractors to turn away people in need because of their religion,their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. Need a home delivered meal and you are gay? Sorry about that!Need to enroll in Headstart and you are a gay couple? Sorry about that!Need to buy birth control pills and you are a single mother? Sorry about that!Are you Jewish and need a subsidized apartment? Sorry about that! This rule violates basic American values that all persons have worth & should be treated with dignity. HHS Rule Would Allow Discrimination vs. Women, LGBTQ People By Federal Contractors Take Action! The Trump administration has issued an […]
Urge Your U.S. Rep. to Support HR 3, A Bill That Allows Medicare to Negotiate for Lower Drug Prices
By MUUSJN on Saturday, December 7th, 2019
Call Your U.S. Representative 1-202-224-3121 (capitol switchboard) Tell your Representative to Vote for H.R. 3 “The Lower Drug Costs Now Act” THE PROBLEM Prescription drug companies charge Americans three, four or even 10 times what they charge people in other countries for the same drugs. These companies subject Americans to unjustified drug price hikes that are far above the rate of inflation. The soaring cost of insulin is an example of out of control prescription drug prices that are crying for a solution. More than 100 million people are diabetic or pre-diabetic. Diabetes is reportedly the highest cost disease in the U.S., more than $300 billion per year. Insulin was invented almost 100 years ago in 1922. Yet, between 2012 and 2016 insulin costs have […]
Join Young People for Climate Actions on November 29th and December 6th
By MUUSJN on Thursday, November 28th, 2019
After 7 million people went on a climate strike on September 20th… Take two challenges of young climate justice activists: Black Friday Resistance: Boycott buying things for 24 hours from 7 p.m. EST on November 28th to 6:59 p.m. on November 29th (EST). Students, workers and adults everywhere, walk away from a system that is destroying the planet. December 6th: Participate in one of the 5 climate strikes in Michigan (Traverse City, Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids and Allendale.) This Is Not A Single Generation Job! “We young people can contribute to a larger fight and that can make a huge difference. But we can’t do this without you and everyone you know.” Climate strikes, rallies, protests, grassroots action and current events in the U.S. and around […]
Our Accomplishments 2019
By MUUSJN on Thursday, November 28th, 2019
2019 was another tough year under the current right wing political leadership.We faced threats of cuts in domestic programs, attacks on women’s and LGBTQ rights, cruelty toward immigrants and people of color and indifference toward our environment and poor people. THE GOOD NEWS: In partnerships with progressive allies, MUUSJN sent over 40 action alerts to our statewide network of almost 3,000 people to call elected officials, to educate and protest. We won several battles! We are grateful to continue to be a partner with the Economic Justice Alliance of Michigan (EJAM), an organization started by African American women. It’s funding has supported all of our justice priorities and it has provide a coalition for collective action. Take a look at our ACCOMPLISHMENTS in 2019! You […]
Tell Your State Rep. to Support Bill to Protect LGBTQ People vs. Discrimination
By MUUSJN on Friday, November 15th, 2019
Call Your State Representative Click HERE to Find Your State Representative Tell your Representative to call for a hearing on HB 5139 in the Government Operations Committee to Expand Ethnic Intimidation Law to Protect LGBTQ People On October 23rd, State Representative Tim Sneller introduced HB 5139, a bill to provide protections against ethnic intimidation to persons based on their gender identity and their sexual orientation. On October 29th, MUUSJN’s Interfaith Reproductive Justice Coalition voted unanimously to issue this alert to call for hearings on HB 5139. Ethnic intimidation involves maliciously seeking to: intimidate or harass another person; physically contact a person; ordamage their property. Discrimination Toward LGBT People in Michigan Is a Serious Problem Right now Michigan’s Ethnic Intimidation law protects people based on their: race, […]
Call Your U.S. Representative
By MUUSJN on Friday, November 8th, 2019
1-202-224-3121 (Capitol Switchboard) AND A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE ENERGY & COMMERCE COMMITTEE FROM MICHIGAN: Rep. Debbie Dingell (D); Rep. Fred Upton (R); and Rep. Tim Walberg (R) Tell him/her to support the Women’s Health Protection Act (HR 2975) Abortion rights must be protected: Congress must pass the WHPA Now! With an anti-choice majority on the Supreme Court, our reproductive rights are under a clear and direct threat. Passing the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) will protect abortion rights from many state restrictions and bans. The WHPA (HR 2975) introduced by Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) now has 213 co-sponsors. Your support can move the more friendly U.S. House to take action on this bill. This bill can pass the House. A sister bill in the […]
Tell Your State Rep. You Want to Protect Women’s Right to Choose — Support the New Reproductive Health Care Act
By MUUSJN on Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
Call Your State Representative Click HERE to Find Your State RepresentativeTell him/her to support HB 5179 – The Michigan Reproductive Health Care Act On October 29th, Rep. Kristy Pagen unveiled the Reproductive Health Act (HB 5179) in the presence of Governor Gretchen Whitmer and other women’s right advocates. The bill, which has 48 other co-sponsors, was formally introduced on October 31st and was sent to the House Government Operations Committee. This week, MUUSJN’s Interfaith Reproductive Justice Coalition voted unanimously to support HB 5179. It protects all individual decision making in terms of reproductive health such as: ABORTION IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL AMONG VOTERS OR PEOPLE OF FAITH! The public may not realize that the majority (73%) of American voters do not want Roe v. Wade overturned. Two […]