| Abbreviations: UU = Unitarian Universalist; UUA = Unitarian Universalist Association)
This page of web links is divided into 2 sections: KEY QUICK LINKS (no descriptions or details) ORGANIZATIONS (detailed list of both UU-related and non- denominational organizations with descriptions and contacts.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - KEY QUICK LINKS Groups (For detailed descriptions of the following Quick Links, scroll down to the next section, which includes many more organizations.) AntiRacist Alliance Asian/Pacific Islander Caucus of DRUUMM DRUUMM (Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries) DRUUMM YaYA (DRUUMM Youth and Young Adults) People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond The Race Museum Unitarios Universalistas - La Web Hispana de la Religión Liberal UUA UUA - The Unitarian Universalist Association UU District of the Metropolitan New York UUA Affiliates Specializing in Social Justice Issues UUA Email Lists (see Tip* below) UUA Anti-Racism Programs & Initiatives Note: For a detailed list (with descriptions) of the following UUA programs and initiatives, please click HERE. Anti-Racism for People of Color Workshop Beyond Categorical Thinking Program Identity-Based Ministries Jubilee World Workshop Journey Toward Wholeness Anti-Racism Program (JTW) Racial and Ethnic Concerns Programs (Email only) Weaving the Fabric of Diversity: An Anti-bias Program for Adults Whitney M. Young Jr. Urban Ministry Grants *UUA Email Lists Tip*: Click here for a huge list of UUA Email Lists. Those most often dealing with diversity, anti-racism and justice issues include: Advocacy-news, Antiracist-UU, JTWNews, Just-uus, Juustchange, SAC-News, SRI-News, and UUSC-hot.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ORGANIZATIONS (Detailed List) [Note: This list contains some non-denominational organizations, but is primarily UU-related. For a huge list of non-UU racial justice groups, see the NAACP’s list of LINKS (www.naacp.org/accos.html)] American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Website: www.adc.org The ADC is a civil rights organizations committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage. ADC, which is non-sectarian & non-partisan, is the largest Arab-American grassroots organization in the United States. It was founded in 1980 by former U.S. Senator James Abourezk and has chapters nationwide. Anti-Defamation League Website: www.adl.org "The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens." ADL Charter, October 1913 AntiRacist Alliance (ARA) Website: www.antiracistalliance.com Contact: Sandra Bernabei, CSW, CASAC 914-723-3222 Email: ssbernabei@aol.com The AntiRacist Alliance is an organizing collective of human service practitioners and educators whose vision is to bring a clear and deliberate anti-racist structural power analysis to social service education and practice. They work for racial justice from a common understanding of racism as presented by the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (see PISAB entry below) in the Undoing Racism Workshop. The ARA offers a wonderful “Web-Based Curriculum on Whiteness” on their website (www.antiracistalliance.com). They also provide links to info about upcoming Undoing Racism Workshops, along with ways to network and stay involved after taking the workshop. Though not listed on their website, the ARA also hosts a monthly Potluck Dinner for Anti-Racism Activists (open to all) on the 3rd Friday of every month in New York City (midtown). (See the ARDC Calendar for details on these potlucks.) ARDC - Anti-Racism and Diversity Committee of the UU District of Metropolitan New York (southeast NY, northern NJ, and southwest CT.) Website: www.AntiRacism.net Contact either of our co-chairs: see www.antiracism.net/contact.html Recognizing that each congregation is on its own unique "journey toward wholeness," the Anti-Racism and Diversity Committee (ARDC) of the Metro District works to nurture and support the broad range of diversity and anti-racism work being done within our district. Through networking and bringing together the multitude of ideas, talents and resources that we offer each other, the ARDC works to assist our congregations in whatever ways they find most useful and empowering. Asian/Pacific Islander Caucus of DRUUMM Website: www.apiuu.org Contact: Chairperson - Manish Mishra, All Souls Church, Washington, DC The A/PI Caucus of DRUUMM endeavors to build a safe and sacred community among UU members who identify as Asian and Pacific Islander, Hapas or Asian Adoptees. Asians in America Project (AIA) Website: www.asiansinamerica.org The Asians in America Project (AIA) mission is to be a central source of information for all things of interest to people of Asian Pacific descent living in the United States. ColorLines: Race Culture Action (magazine) http://www.colorlines.com The nation’s leading magazine on race, culture, and organizing Crossroads Ministry Website: www.crossroadsministry.org Contact: crossroadschicago@sbcglobal.net 773-638-0166 Education, Training, and Organizing to Dismantle Racism and Build Anti-Racist Multicultural Diversity Cuba AyUUda Website: www.cubaayuuda.org Contact: Carol and Mark Slegers (503) 645-7978 3130 NW 148th Place, Beverton, OR 97006 Email: caslegers@aol.com Cuba AyUUda was founded to create relationships and maintain friendships with people in Cuba and seeks to keep the challenges facing Cuban people in the forefront here in the United States. DRUUMM -- Diverse & Revolutionary UU Multicultural Ministries Website: www.druumm.org Email: info@druumm.org Email Lists Info: druumm.org/mailman/listinfo Mail: 405A 17th Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 DRUUMM's mission is to provide support and advocacy for People of Color and leadership creating anti-racist Unitarian Universalist identity and practice. The DRUUMM family includes children, youth, and adults of all ages, and religious professionals who participate in activities sponsored by DRUUMM and its identity-based affiliates -- Youth and Young Adults (YaYA), Asian/Pacific Islanders (A/PIC), La Familia Global, and African Descent. DRUUMM meets twice annually, at General Assembly and at the Fall Conference. The Leadership Development Conference is offered annually; Youth and young adults alternate years. DRUUMM sponsors General Assembly (and elsewhere) workshops, speakers, and events of specific interest to People of Color. DRUUMM YaYA: DRUUMM Youth and Young Adults Website: http://radicalhapa.typepad.com/druummyaya Contact: Chair -- Sean Jones. sean@winterhill.net A DRUUMM affiliate specifically for UU Youth and Young Adults of Color . ICUU - International Council of Unitarians and Universalists Website: www.icuu.net A network of Unitarian, Universalist and Unitarian Universalist organizations. Member groups come from 19 countries and many more are being organized around the world. Latino/Latina – see LUUNA and “Spanish Language UU Resources” LINC -- Linked Identities Networking in Coalition (within the UUA) Contact: Justice Waidner c/o UUWF 25 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108 Email: dwaidner@hotmail.co (No website) A coalition of identity-based religious organizations historically oppressed within the UUA and its institutions. Our power as the collective majority will affect sustainable and accountable change within ourselves, our organizations, and our association. We are called by our Unitarian Universalist faith to transform the world. LUUNA -- Latina/o UU Networking Association Contact: c/o Rev. Jose Ballester 46 Greentree Lane #13, South Weymouth, MA 02190 Email: luunaysol@aol.com Website: LUUNA does not have a webpage, but check out the Spanish Language UU website, Unitarios Universalistas - www.uuhispano.net LUUNA is the multicultural continental association of Unitarian Universalists dedicated to attracting more Latina/os to our Unitarian Universalist tradition and for enhancing their participation within it by providing support, guidance, fellowship and advocacy. It also works to educate the larger Unitarian Universalist community about Latina/o history, culture and diversity. Membership in LUUNA is not restricted to Latina/os; it is open to all persons who are in sympathy with the aforementioned purposes, without regard to race, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, citizenship, political affiliation and shall not require any adherence to any particular interpretation of religion or to any particular religious belief or creed. For a more detailed description of LUUNA, see its alphabetical listing at: www.uua.org/administration/indaff.php#350950 MAGAZINES on Diversity-Multiculturalism ColorLines Magazine www.colorlines.com MultiCultural Review www.mcreview.com MultiCultural Review (magazine) Website: www.mcreview.com A magazine “dedicated to a better undersanding of ethnic, racial, and religious diversity.” NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Website: www.naacp.org The mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. They have a great page of links. See -- http://www.naacp.org/accos.html The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) Website: www.pisab.org The People’s Institute is recognized as one of the foremost anti-racism training and organizing institutions in the nation. It was founded in 1980 and has built a national collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers who do their work with an understanding of history, culture, and the impact of racism on communities. The People's Institute is especially well known for leading Undoing Racism Workshops throughout the country in which they train participants to move beyond a focus on the symptoms of racism to an understanding of what racism is, where it comes from, how it functions, why it persists and how it can be undone. They show how effective community and institutional change only happens when those who would make change understand how race and racism function as a barrier to community self determination and self sufficiency. In the New York Metro region, the Undoing Racism Workshops are hosted by the AntiRacism Alliance (see ARA entry above). Check the ARDC Calendar for listings of any unpcoming workshops. The Race Museum Website: www.RaceMuseum.org Contact: Ian White Maher, Director Email: ian.maher@gmail.com The Race Museum is a traveling exhibit of interactive and participatory anti-racist art that works to create a new national identity opposed to racialization. Its mission is to demonstrate the social significance of race through art, theater and scholarship. Art is chosen as the medium in an attempt to deepen intellectual analyses of race as well as identify the emotional, psychic and spiritual impact white supremacy has had on our lives. In March 2006 the Race Museum will begin touring the east coast. In addition , it will hold complimentary workshops designed to give participants tools to analyze institutional and cultural racism as well as understand how their identities have been shaped by white supremacy. (ARDC is a proud UU sponsor of The Race Museum.) The Southern Poverty Law Center Website: www.splcenter.org The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. It is located in Montgomery, Alabama – the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. (See also the web project of SPLC -- Tolerance.org) SPANISH LANGUAGE RESOURCES: UUA Office of Latino/a Hispanic Concerns Website: http://www.uua.org/programs/latinhispanicsurvey.html Contact: Rev. Sofia Craethnenn, 617-948-4277 Program Coordinator for Racial & Ethnic Concerns UUA, 25 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108 Email: scraethnenn@uua.org Networking/Action Coalition - LUUNA (Latina/o UU Networking Assoc.) Email: uunaysol@aol.com (No website) For description, see entry for LUUNA Spanish Language UU Website - Unitarios Universalistas Website: www.uuhispano.net Great Article - about how some UUs reach out to the Latino/a community: see “Unitarios Universalistas de Habla Hispaña” under “Urban Ministry Success Stories” at www.uua.org/programs/justice/antiracism/jtwsunday/wysuccess.html Tolerance.org -- the web project of The Southern Poverty Law Center Website: Tolerance.org Tolerance.org is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry and creating, in hate's stead, communities that value diversity. Through its online well of resources and ideas, its expanding collection of print materials, its burgeoning outreach efforts, and its downloadable public service announcements, Tolerance.org promotes and supports anti-bias activism in every venue of life. Note: Tolerance.org is a Winner of the Webby Award for Activism and Electronic Multimedia Awards for both Education and Public Service. (See also -- The Southern Poverty Law Center -- www.splcenter.org) Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Website: www.UUA.org UUA Anti-Racism Programs & Initiatives - Click here for List Unitarian Universalist District of the Metropolitan New York Website: www.uumetrony.org Unitarios Universalistas - La Web Hispana de la Religión Liberal Website: www.uuhispano.net "Libertad, Razón, Tolerancia... Los Unitarios Universalistas creemos en la espiritualidad libre, sin dogmas y sin jerarquías eclesiásticas." A rich UU info and networking website in Spanish (it can be translated into English by clicking the British flag in upper right corner). They offer 3 different Spanish-based Email Lists (near bottom of main page): 1. UU-Hispanic List – for international dialogue, a virtual global community. 2. UU-Mexico List 3. SUUE List -- for SUUE -- Sociedad Unitaria Universalista de España (UU Society of Spain -- their website is: www.suue.org). UUSC – Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Website: www.uusc.org Contact: Nancy Moore (617) 868-6600 130 Prospect St, Cambridge, MA 02139-1844 Email: info@uusc.org Firmly grounded in Unitarian Universalist values, UUSC promotes and protects human rights in the United States and internationally. Through advocacy, partnership and education, UUSC focuses its programs to promote environmental justice, defend civil liberties and access to democratic processes, and advance economic justice. Working in collaboration with the UUA, UUSC also responds strategically to disasters, especially where human rights are threatened. For a more detailed description of LUUNA, see: www.uua.org/administration/associate.php#1694 VISIONS, Inc. Website: www.visions-inc.org Training and Consultancy in Multiculturalism: Recognizing, Understanding and Appreciating Differences. VISIONS Inc is a nonprofit enterprise that provides training, consultation, therapy, and community development models to support organizations, communities, and individuals as they clarify their goals for diversity and engage in multicultural organizational development. VISIONS means Vigorous Interventions in Organizing Natural Settings. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This "ARDC List of Anti-Racism Links" was researched and compiled by Emily Whittemore, webmaster and member of ARDC. If you have any suggestions or corrections, please contact her at: EW4AR@aol.com Updated - December, 2005) |
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