2009 YOUNG ADULT WATER JUSTICE ROAD TRIP AUGUST 3 - 9
Last year's Water Justice Tour was pronounced "Awesome" and "life Changing." This year's week-long road trip and eco-justice adventure begins August 3rd. It could be THE awesome experience that changes your life.

Here's what you can expect:

• Learn about California Water and Climate Change
• Hear stories from remarkable people who fight for eco-justice every day
• Boat in the Delta and get wet in the Gold country
• Lobby for the Human Right to Water
• Make new friends in the midst of this remarkable journey
• Discover a spiritual connection between justice and values and your heart
• See the interconnections between the land and the lives of Californians
• Wonder at the beauty of the night sky
• Share all this with other UU Young Adults
• Find your own voice around water justice
• Realize more than this list can contain

If you are between 18 and 30 this is an opportunity for you. Here's all the materials you need to get started and REGISTER TODAY.

Tour begins in San Jose on August 3.

National Public Healthcare Takes Center Stage

“This is it, folks. The concrete is being mixed and about to be poured. And after it's poured and hardens, universal health care will be with us for years to come in whatever form it now takes. Let your representative and senators know you want a public option without conditions or triggers. Don't wait until the concrete hardens and we've lost this battle.” - Robert Reich

A Public Healthcare Option is now being considered in Congress.

While the UULM-CA believes that a cost saving single-payer healthcare system is an important goal for true healthcare reform, these next two weeks are the critical moment to ensure that a robust public health insurance plan is part of the federal healthcare legislation currently under consideration.

More information on the Public Health Option.

Listen to UULM on KPFA

Radio Interview with Ellen Schaffer, Betty Jeanne Rueters-Ward and others on "Living Room" - June 19, 2009 KPFA

Click to listen (or download). Start scrollbar at 00:08:15

Let UU Voices for Health Care Be Heard!

Learn about four important steps you can take RIGHT AWAY - at the UULM Action Network!

Keep up the pressure to preserve health and human services for the poor.

June 30th is the last day of coverage for almost 3,000,000 Californians who count on medical benefits for so called optional care such as podiatry, optometry and dental work. The CPCA (California Primary Care Association) organized a rally at the Capital to protest these cuts. Tom Lewis (UUA minister and Dentist) came with two of his patients to speak out about this issue he knows well. Tom's patients, and the patients of the over 600 clinics who rely on this coverage need our continues pressure on lawmakers to remember those so marginalized that their health and welfare are forfeit to our broken system of taxation.

For more information on our budget crisis and its impact on Health & Human Services in California, click here.

The Human Right to Water:
AB 1242 (Ruskin) Passes CA State Assembly 54-25!

This is the first bill to be co-sponsored by the UULM Action Network and the UU Service Committee! It is the first legislation of its kind in the country.

AB-1242 (Ruskin-Jones) the Human Right to Water Act, was passed by Assembly on a 54 to 25 vote, with one abstention. This is the first bill that the UU Legislative Ministry Action Network and the UUSC have co-sponsored. Other great organizations in the lead on this bill include the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, Urban Semillas, Food and Water Watch and Alliance for Democracy. California teachers and nurses have also joined in to show their support.

Click here to see how your legislator voted.

Next AB1242 will be heard before the California Senate Natural Resources Committee, on Monday, July 6 at 2:00PM in Rm 112 where Senator Fran Pavley, well known for authoring ground breaking climate change legislation is Chair.

AB 1242 establishes a right to water for basic human needs, as a policy of the state of California.

"It is hereby declared to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to clean, affordable, and accessible water on an equitable basis, that is adequate for the health and well-being of the individual and family."
AB-1242 Text

CLICK HERE to get stories, graphics, fact sheets, sample letters, bill analysis, and info for tabling.

Rev. Lindi Ramsden in Sacramento News & Review Feature Article

Read in the Sacramento News & Review "Five East Steps to Marriage Freedom," by Kel Munger. The article features our Executive Director, Rev. Lindi Ramsden, and other local clergy weighing in on the question, "Is it really Gay people vs. church people?"

CA Supreme Court Ruling on Prop 8

Photos of the press conference at the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Community Center Tuesday, May 26th. Among the speakers was Reverend Lindi Ramsden, Executive Director of UULM. Read her statement on the decision of the California Supreme Court regarding Prop 8.

Click here to read the California Supreme Court decision.

Thomas Starr King Deserves Better

On June 3rd in the National Hall of Statuary, the statue of UU minister and California hero, the Rev. Thomas Starr King, will be removed and replaced with a statue of former President Reagan.

Learn more about who Starr King was and why he deserves better in a great article by Jack Cheevers, published in the LA Times on May 29, 2009.

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