Issues Updates

Comments on Medicaid Waiver Application

These comments are filed on behalf of the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey (UULMNJ), and address New Jersey’s Section 1115 Demonstration Comprehensive Waiver Application that was made available...

Marriage Equality - Votes on Feb. 13 and 16

Marriage Equality in Jersey is comig up for a vote. The full New Jersey Senate will on vote Monday, February 13. The session will begin at noon . Please try...

Marriage Equality - Senate Hearing Jan. 24, 2012

In the new legislative session beginning in January 2012, the very first bills posted in the Assembly and Senate (A.1 and S.1 respectively) would establish marriage equality in New Jersey. A...

National Park Service seeking input on Susquehanna-Roseland 500 kV power lines

The following information is being forwarded from the UULMNJ Environmental Justice Task Force. It has particular implications for our northern New Jersey congregations. Comments are being accepted until Jan. 31st. This month...

Occupy Wall Street Statement

The 99% of Us are 100% Committed to Change In just two months, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread across the country and across the globe, a public outcry of...

Health Care Task Force Update - Nov. 2011

On October 11, Health Care Task Force Chair Carolyn Baldacchini attended a Medical Advisory Council meeting at the NJ State offices of the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Commissioner...

Immigration Reform: Protest, Rally & March - October 9, 2011

Redefining Cruel & Unusual Indefinite Immigration Detention for-Profit Amid Toxic Waste in Essex County Protest, Rally & MarchSunday, October 9, 20111:30 pm Beginning at Peter Francisco Park(on the east side of Newark...

Immigration Policy Reform

UULMNJ's Immigration Reform Task Force reports that many congregations are offering a variety of programs around this issue. A few examples: Ridgewood: The Immigration Task Team is working on a program...

Poverty: An Issue of Justice - May 23

There will be a public regional forum, orgainzed by the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey and presented by our partners in the Anti-Poverty Network, to discuss poverty in...

Environment

Rev. Craig Hirshberg, Rohn Hein, Sally Gellert, and Daphne Speck-Bartynski met with the NJ Environmental Federation Executive Director, Amy Goldsmith on August 29 to discuss areas of mutual...

Marriage Equality

On June 29, 2011, Garden State Equality and seven same-sex couples and their children, represented by Lambda Legal, filed a lawsuit seeking marriage equality in New Jersey,...

Healthcare

The current administration wanted to lower eligibility for New Jersey residents for FamilyCare to 29% of the Federal Poverty Level, meaning that an uninsured parent with two children...

Economic Justice Update - Sept 2011

The main focus of the Economic Justice Task Force has been working for affordable housing, advocating for those in need of affordable housing in the following ways: Working with our expert...

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