UU Action NH

We are UUs from across New Hampshire - diverse, spirited, deeply committed and firmly grounded in our UU principles of world peace, justice and sustainability.

[NH Sierra Club @NHSierraClub]

Shout out to the peeps who worked the halls at the State House, state agencies, town halls, neighborhoods & events!! You signed petitions, wrote the letters, handed in the testimony & took the pictures!! @CLF @350NH @UUActionNH @CleanAirMoms @UCSUSA @ClimateActionNH #BeyondCoal

[UU Action NH @UUActionNH]

Attendance is free but registration is required. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.
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[Side with Love @SidewithLove]

Join @uua_lgbtq and TRUUsT Director Rev. Julián Jamaica Soto for #TransDayOfVisibility2024! All are welcome - all ages, all (a)gender identities, all religious experiences that include folks happy to attend a UUA event. RSVP and invite friends and family! https://t.co/CpnabmVEg1

[The Progress Network @progressntwrk]

🍨The US has announced a record $6 billion in funding decarbonize US industry facilities including plants that make things like cement and concrete, iron and steel, and the most important food group...ice cream!

https://t.co/SkuWdDPdlW

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of people on a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama.

[UU Action NH @UUActionNH]

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #NHPolitics @UUActionNH

[NH Bulletin || bsky @nhbulletinnews.bsky.social @NHBulletinNews]

The New Hampshire House approved a bill to bar transgender girls from participating on female sports teams in K-12 schools and public colleges and universities, in a 189-182 vote that drew criticism from LGBTQ+ rights groups. From @edewittnh #NHPolitics https://t.co/K7uOELyEFR

[UUA @UUA]

The journey to opening the shelter was “very countercultural to the norms of commercial real estate,” according to UUA Executive Vice President Carey McDonald, and had everything to do with the UUA’s values.

Read more via @RNS https://t.co/Mugk7g9B0p

#UU #Boston #MigrantRights

[North Country Alliance for Balanced Change @northcountryabc]

🎉 House E&A Committee just passed HB1632! 🎉

This bill limits OUT OF STATE TRASH to 15%. Huge shoutout to @roche4nh and all Committee members for standing strong against turning NH into NE's Dump! #NoTrashInNH 🚫🗑️ @KelleyPotenza @sherrydutzy @nashuaward7 @MeganMurray4NH

[NAMI New Hampshire @NAMI_NH]

"When it comes to mood and mental health conditions, there is evidence to show that adults who maintain a healthy diet have fewer depressive symptoms...There's also evidence that healthy diets may help tamp down anxiety."

https://t.co/waecF99HXe

[UU Action NH @UUActionNH]

Civil Rights activist, Gloria Richardson with the greatest “Boy Bye” as she removes the rifle of a National Guardsman from her way during a 1963 Civil Rights Protest. #WomensHistoryMonth📷 #NHPolitics @UUActionNH

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Civil Rights activist, Gloria Richardson with the greatest “Boy Bye” as she removes the rifle of a National Guardsman from her way during a 1963 Civil Rights Protest. #WomensHistoryMonth

—Civil Rights activist Gloria Hayes Richardson was born Gloria St. Clair Hayes on May 6th, 1922 in Baltimore, Maryland to John and Mabel Hayes. 

During the Great Depression, her parents moved the family to Cambridge, Maryland, the home of Mabel Hayes. 

Young Gloria grew up in a privileged environment. Her grandfather, Herbert M. St. Clair, was one of the town’s wealthiest citizens. He owned numerous properties in the city’s Second Ward which included a funeral parlor, grocery store and butcher shop. He was also the sole black member of the Cambridge City Council through most of the early 20th Century.

Hayes enrolled Howard University in Washington at age 16 and graduated with a degree in sociology in 1942. After Howard, she worked as a civil servant for the federal government in World War II-era Washington, D.C. but returned to Cambridge after the war. 

Despite her grandfather’s political and economic influence, the Maryland Department of Social Services, for example, refused to hire Hayes or any other black social workers. 

Gloria Hayes married local school teacher Harry Richardson in 1948 and raised a family for the next thirteen years.

When the civil rights movement came to Cambridge in 1961 in the form of Freedom Riders, the town was thoroughly segregated and the African American unemployment rate was 40 percent. 

Gloria Richardson’s teenage daughter, Donna, became involved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s (SNCC) effort to desegregate public accommodations. Richardson, however, refused to commit herself to non-violence as a protest tactic.

When the SNCC-led protests faltered in 1962, Richardson and other parents created the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC) which became the only adult-led SNCC affiliate in the civil rights organization’s history. 

CNAC enlarged the scope of grievances to include housing and employment discrimination and inadequate health care. Richardson was selected to lead CNAC.

Taking place in a border state rather than the Deep South, the Richardson-led effort differed from most other civil rights campaigns of the era. It addressed a much wider array of issues rather than the one or two that motivated other campaigns. Since Richardson and her followers refused to commit to non-violence as a philosophy or a tactic, CNAC protests were far more violent and confrontational. Protests in 1963, for example, prompted Maryland Governor J. Millard Tawes to send in the National Guard. The Guard remained in the city, which was effectively under martial law, for nearly a year. The Cambridge Movement also drew the attention of U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, who unsuccessfully attempted to broker an agreement between Cambridge’s white political leaders and Richardson’s CNAC.
By the summer of 1964, Richardson resigned from the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee citing, her exhaustion from leading nearly two years of continuous demonstrations. Richardson, who had divorced Harry Richardson in the late 1950s, married freelance photographer Frank Dandridge. The couple moved to New York City with Richardson’s younger daughter, Tamara.

Although she maintained ties with Cambridge and with the local movement, Gloria Richardson never lived in Cambridge again. Richardson died of natural causes on July 15, 2021, in Manhattan, New York. She was 99 years old.

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[NH Bulletin || bsky @nhbulletinnews.bsky.social @NHBulletinNews]

Lawmakers are closing in on online voter registration in New Hampshire. Such a portal would allow voters to fill out a new voter application, request that an absentee ballot be mailed to them, and make any changes to the voter registration database. https://t.co/vJNXCZKemX

[UU Action NH @UUActionNH]

State officials have declared the Casella Waste Systems application for a new landfill beside Forest Lake in Dalton incomplete and said it’s missing information across dozens of areas." #NHPolitics @UUActionNH

[North Country Alliance for Balanced Change @northcountryabc]

"State officials have declared the Casella Waste Systems application for a new landfill beside Forest Lake in Dalton incomplete and said it’s missing information across dozens of areas."

https://t.co/Zv93HZ8sXX

[UU Action NH @UUActionNH]

This month, the @opill_otc (the first over-the-counter birth control pill) will soon be available at most major retailers nationwide and online. 🥳 We’re one step closer to making birth control accessible to everyone who needs it! #NHPolitics @UUActionNH

[Opill® @opill_otc]

What makes being able to buy daily birth control pills over the counter a game-changer? Your reason — just like your experience — is unique to you. Drop your pick in the comments!

#Opill #GameChanger

[UU Action NH @UUActionNH]

There are fewer than 4 affordable and available rental homes for every 10 extremely low-income renters. *This* is the root cause of homelessness and the urgent rental crisis that must be solved. #NHPolitics @UUActionNH

[Diane Yentel @dianeyentel]

Today we published #TheGap24. There are fewer than 4 affordable and available rental homes for every 10 extremely low-income renters.

*This* is the root cause of homelessness and the urgent rental crisis that must be solved. Read: https://t.co/0mXuZLXI5q

[UU Action NH @UUActionNH]

It's Equal Pay Day. Women earn 84 cents for every dollar men make — or even less
#NHPolitics @UUActionNH

[UU Action NH @UUActionNH]

Town Election Day is here! Polls are open in towns across the State of New Hampshire: Check with your City/Town website about polling locations and times. #NHPolitics @UUActionNH

[Climate Action NH @ClimateActionNH]

Town Election Day is here! Polls are open in towns across the State of New Hampshire: Check with your City/Town website about polling locations and times. #NHPolitics

[UUA @UUA]

On March 1, we announced our coordinated effort to provide temporary emergency housing for families with children who urgently need shelter in #Boston.

Want to help support the families? Learn how you can make donations to the UUA & area congregations. https://t.co/DpQz3cHwtN

[UUA @UUA]

The UU Addictions Ministry is looking for a curator for designing a 3-session small group ministry curriculum addressing addiction, recovery, and substances use disorder.

Proposals, drafts, and resumes can be sent to [email protected] by March 15, 2024.

#UU #Recovery

[When We All Vote @WhenWeAllVote]

This #WomensHistoryMonth, women are getting ready to bring our collective energy to the ballot box.

When All Women Vote, we protect our democracy and determine the direction of our country.

Register to vote TODAY at https://t.co/FZtPx93oQy! 🗳️

[UUSJ @UUSJ]

#UUTwitter, @UUSJ appreciates our #EvacuateOurAllies friends @NIF. Their Immigration Principles, while slightly different from ours, point in a similar direction.