May
6
Mosaic Project Survey for Youth and Young Adults of Color
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At last! The Mosaic Project on-line survey for UU Youth and Young Adults (ages 14-35) of Color and/or Latina/o and Hispanic descent has gone live! If you are a youth or young adult please Click here to take the Mosaic YaYA survey and let the Mosaic Project know how you feel about your experiences at the local, district, and continental level.
Click here to learn more about the Mosaic Project, including its key question:
The question in essence is: What are the ministry needs of African, Caribbean, Native/American Indian, Asian and Pacific Islander, Latina/Latino and Hispanic, Middle Eastern/Arab, Multiracial and Multiethnic and trans-racially adopted Unitarian Universalist (UU) youth and young adults? How does our Unitarian Universalist faith need to change in order to meet these needs? What structures need to be strengthened or established to support families, congregations, campus groups, districts, and continental bodies in their ministries to these youth and young adults?
This message was posted on behalf of Laura Spencer, UUA Program Associate for Racial and Ethnic Concerns, as part of the Assessment of Youth and Young Adult Ministries. Laura can be reached at lspencer at uua dot org.
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Jan
18
DRUUMM and Ft. Lauderdale Security
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Letter from Rev. Manish Mishra to UUA Leadership regarding General Assembly 2008 Ft. Lauderdale Security issues:
Dear Bill, Gini, Tom, Beth, and Annette:
The DRUUMM Steering Committee met the evening of 1/16 and we discussed the hub-bub around Ft. Lauderdale. We have taken a Steering Committee position.
We realize that contractual decisions were made quite some time ago that constrain the Association in some financially very difficult ways regarding Ft. Lauderdale. It’s equally true that it is very unfortunate that we are in an access-related situation like this at all, one which will likely impact members of our DRUUMM community.
But, the reality is what the reality is, there is only so much that can be done at this late stage. We are aware that the UUA Board, the Administration, and the GA Planning Committee have been working to address as many issues as possible before GA, in an attempt to ensure maximum, as hassle-free as possible, access. We expect those efforts to be imperfect, that problems will occur.
We will work with you to handle this as best as we all can, and hope/trust that this type of accessibility problem won’t be re-created.
In recognition of the fact that DRUUMM community representatives are meeting with UUA Board reps on 1/18, later today, I’ll note that our SC decided not to raise this topic from our side. We realize that the most that can be done is being done. We have other collaborative agenda items that our reps have been asked to raise, which you’ll be in dialogue over shortly.
Best wishes for productive Board-DRUUMM meetings, writing in my official capacity, Rev. Manish Mishra, President, DRUUMM.
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