Political Advocacy

It is vital that UU's speak out as a strong voice for liberal religion both individually and as a denomination on the many issues surrounding those impacted by the epidemic. These include:

•  Prevention issues, especially the impact of abstinence only programs
•  Access to generic drugs
•  Debt cancellation
•  The impact on women
•  Impact on orphans and children
•  Funding, especially for the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria
•  Hunger
•  Ending global poverty
•  Genocide
•  Reproductive rights
•  The global gag rule

UUGAC Alerts

UUGAC sends out political alerts to the newsletter mailing list, and encourages every congregation to assign a contact who can distribute alerts as part of Social Justice activities.

UUA Advocacy Office

The UUA Advocacy Office is based in Washington, DC . They are a powerful lobbying organization , and an excellent source of information and resource materials on a wide variety of subjects. They send our regular alerts on current issues and have resource packets on how congregations can get involved.

Spotlight Issues

Because the issues are complex and overlapping we plan on occasional “Spotlight Issues” with more in depth information and current political alerts.

Links to Other Organizations

•  DATA and ONE Campaign: www.data.org; www.one.org

•  Global AIDS Alliance: www.stopglobalaids.org and www.globalaidsalliance.org

•  Jubilee: www.jubileeusa.org

•  Kaiser Network daily reports: www.kaisernetwork.org

•  Physicians for Human Rights: www.phrusa.org

•  Portland Area Global AIDS Coalition: www.pagac.org

•  RESULTS: www.results.org