Standing on the Side of Love

[Paula Gribble]

Message from the Unitarian Universalist Association's Standing on the
Side of Love Campaign


On July 29, 2010, Rev. Peter Morales, president of the Unitarian
Universalist Association, Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, minister of the
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix, and twenty-three other
Unitarian Universalist (UU) clergy and laypeople were arrested in
downtown Phoenix, Arizona, for acts of peaceful civil disobedience. The
protest was part of the National Day of Non-Compliance against SB 1070
and was supported by the UUA's Standing on the Side of Love
<http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org>  (SSL) campaign. More than 200
SSL supporters joined Puente and the National Day Laborer Organizing
Network in the Phoenix protests. In addition, UU congregations across
the nation hosted vigils and participated in rallies in their hometowns.

The Unitarian Universalists arrested were blocking a public building and
practiced peaceful non-resistance. They were carried away by police,
detained, processed, and released from jail a few hours later, on bail.
The UU protesters were easily identified by their yellow "Standing on
the Side of Love" t-shirts, and many of them appeared in international
television and print coverage of the demonstrations.  

In support of undocumented people and the protestors arrested yesterday,
the Unitarian Universalist Association's Standing on the Side of Love
campaign asks Unitarian Universalists to:

*    Wear SSL t-shirts or buttons to church this Sunday. If you do
not have SSL apparel, please consider wearing yellow.  
*     Follow the unfolding events on the Facebook page of Standing on
the Side of Love
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Standing-on-the-Side-of-Love>  campaign,
and change your Facebook profile image for the weekend to the SSL logo
<http://img.uua.org/ssl/ssl_for_fb.jpg> .