Organizing to Respond
Our community is actively preparing ourselves so that we can respond effectively to offensive positions and actions from our government in the coming years. To respond rather than react to the onslaught of expected challenges, we are grounding ourselves in our mission, covenant and values, organizing our teams and resources, connecting with community partners, and building practices of resilience.
This will be ongoing work. We hope you will join us! If you are not a member of a CUUC committee, group, or team, now is a good time to join! Click here for a list. if you would like help reaching someone, please contact the office at admin@cucwp.org or 914-946-1660 x2.
We hold one another in love, we move forward with intention, and may all that we do be grounded in justice, equity, and liberation.
Information, Inspiration, and Resources
Explore these four sections to find practical guidance, fresh ideas, and supportive practices for navigating this moment together. Each offers a different entry point—inviting you to dive in, follow your interests, and discover resources that can strengthen both personal and collective response.
Tools for Congregations
Social Change, Activism, and Solidarity
Preparing Yourself, Self-Care, and Resilience
From Radical Welcome to Long-Gem Belonging
Advocacy Organizations
You don’t have to go it alone! These organizations offer resources, education, organized events, and advocacy opportunities. Visit their websites for information on current offerings. Note that this list of suggestions is by no means exhaustive, and with the exception of those listed under “UU Activism,” they are not necessarily affiliated with Unitarian Universalism as a whole or this congregation.
| Democracy / Civil Rights | |
| American Civil Liberties Union ACLU | Advocates for civil liberties for all, including immigrant rights, trans justice, reproductive freedom, etc. |
| Indivisible | Connect with local groups, events, and advocacy opportunities. |
| Interfaith Alliance | Challenging the dangerous ideas of Project 2025 by mobilizing people of diverse faiths and beliefs to achieve democracy together. |
| No Kings Alliance | Live protest events, trainings, and other support |
| Disability Advocacy | |
| EqUUal Access | Unitarian Universalists living with disabilities and allies advocating for full engagement of people with disabilities in UU communities and the broader society |
| Immigration | |
| Interfaith Council of New Americans in Westchester (ICNAW) | Collaborates with various religious and secular organizations to support refugees in Westchester County. Works to resettle families, providing various types of support. |
| Neighbors Link | Supports new immigrant families, offering education and empowerment programs, involving longer-term residents in volunteer opportunities and creating substantive partnerships with other local organizations. |
| Incarceration | |
| Communities not Cages | Advocates for overhaul of New York’s sentencing laws that funnel thousands of New Yorkers into cages and fail to deliver safety, healing, or justice. |
| Legislation / Litigation | |
| Just Security | Searchable database that tracks legal challenges to Trump administration executive actions |
| Project 2025 Tracker | A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025’s policy proposals |
| Miscellaneous Social Justice | |
| MoveOn | Petitions, events, volunteer opportunities. |
| Right to Be | Training on De-Escalation, Bystander Intervention, and Resilience |
| WESPAC Foundation | Leading force for progressive social change in Westchester County. Education and activism for a more just and peaceful world, an end to militarism and racism and a more fair economy that works for all. |
| Racial Justice | |
| NAACP | Home of grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice. Advocates, agitates, and litigates for the civil rights due to Black America. |
| Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) | A home for white people working for justice, offers toolkits, education, connection to local NYC chapter. |
| Reproductive Rights | |
| Planned Parenthood Action Fund | Includes education on relevant legislation, as well as information on volunteering and advocacy. |
| Transgender Advocacy | |
| Transforming Hearts Collective | Offers training to faith leaders and groups on radical welcome and culture shift, healing justice, queer and trans spirituality, and pathways to liberation. |
| Unitarian Universalist Activism | |
| Side with Love | The Organizing Strategy Team of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Offers Weekly Action Updates as well as The Gathering, a monthly virtual event designed to offer spiritual grounding, political analysis, and collective action. |
| UU Service Committee | Includes The UUSC Resistance Network, a rapid mobilization hub that connects people of faith and conscience to urgent advocacy and direct action when democracy, civil liberties, and human rights are under attack. |
