Social Action Forum

The Social Action Forum is a collection of people who participate in one of a variety of social action projects through our church (see below for our current list).

Each year we select four ministries to highlight through a series of month-long initiatives, designed to:

• Expand the number of FPB members actively engaged in FPB social justice work
• Develop the expectation among all FPB members that every Sunday they will have an opportunity to share and learn about our collective social justice work.
• Introduce all FPB members to four kinds of social justice work: service, education, witness, and advocacy.
• Identify opportunities for FPB members to do social justice work on schedules that fit different needs and interests: one-time, annual, monthly and weekly.
• Deepen our members’ identity as members of a faith-based social justice serving UU church by focusing attention of all FPB members on a single social justice issue.
• Build a stronger relationship between FPB and the wider community through our social justice work
• Engage more members in social justice work sponsored by UU-affiliated organizations, e.g., UUA, UUUM, UUSC, and MBD

In the 2009-2010 church year, we will focus on:

• Green Initiative (October 2009)
• Hunger Initiative (November 2009)
• Economic Justice (March 2010)
• Standing on the Side of Love (May-June 2010)

Besides these ministries focused on the environment and on hunger and social justice, the church regularly participates in:

• Four Special collections each year for a specific project, program, or initiative
• Brookline Food Pantry food collections
• Monthly meal serving at Rosie’s Place
• Mission trips to New Orleans, Texas/Mexico borderland, and Guatemala
• AIDS Walk
• Walk for Hunger
• Gay Pride Parade
• Support for same-sex marriage legislation through MassEquity
• Hats and Mittens for the Grow Clinic at a local hospital
• UUUM Renewal House Thanksgiving dinner
• UUUM After School graduation barbeque
• Brookline Climate Action Day
• Monthly Films for Reflection
• Lower Your Carbon Footprint Workshop
• Voter Registration Drives

October 2009
Make a Difference (MAD)
Saturday
Environmental Initiative