Committee Scope and Issues

The committee's principal concern is with American domestic issues. The litmus test for an issue's inclusion as a subject of our interest is whether it poses a problem susceptible to local activism, and whether the solution of that problem is applicable to a significant segment of the nation.
 
The committee may be regarded as a laboratory for activism. It acts both as an implementer of programs and as a disseminator of successful solutions.
 
The committee's principal objectives are:
 

1. To identify social problems, and where no viable means of addressing them exists, to create and guide new efforts to do so;



2. To support existing community activism that addresses identified problems.



3. To document successes and failures and to disseminate that knowledge throughout the UU community and other progressive secular and non-secular groups.

Here are the current issues of interest:

CIVIL LIBERTIES: helping to challenge the Patriot Act and other legislation that sacrifices liberty in the name of security.
 
ECONOMIC JUSTICE: helping to ensure that disadvantaged citizens have appropriate access to the resources and benefits of our society.
 
HUMAN RIGHTS: helping to ensure the civil rights and safety of gays, lesbians and racial and ethnic minorities.
 
WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: pushing back the emerging challenges to women's right to choose.
 
ELECTORAL AFFAIRS: working with community groups to protect against large-scale vote fraud and to identify and mobilize traditionally underrepresented voters.
 
COMMUNICATIONS: helping to shape and disseminate word of the committee's activities and message through print and electronic media, as well as through public advocacy campaigns and direct public contact.