This year, we’re excited to be partnering again with NCAAT for their big fall GOTV in Cary NC!
Door to Door Canvass with North Carolina Asian Americans Together. Saturday, October 10th from 2:00 – 7:00 PM at Cedar Fork Park, 228 Aviation Pkwy, Morrisville, NC. NCAAT on the Block empowers volunteers to canvass their own communities through meaningful, face-to-face conversations. By knocking doors and sharing voting information, you’ll help neighbors feel informed, connected, and ready to participate in our democracy. Register here 
Friday, October 9th at 11:00 - End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. This week, Kaleb Graves will lead us in a discussion of the new book End Times Fascism by Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein. The book "examines how religious fundamentalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and ethno-nationalists are converging around the belief that a cleansing global catastrophe is coming—and actively welcoming it." - NPR. This is a Friday Action Hour you won't want to miss.
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Be sure to sign up for our Weekly Friday Action Hour Email(opens in new tab) that includes a promo of the week's actions, the Zoom link, and the link to our Actions Google Doc.
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Since May of 2020, North Carolina UUs and friends have gathered on Fridays to take action and experience the joy and power of community. Every Friday at 11:00am we recap the past week and take action on the issues impacting our state and country. And there is always great music to help us feel the justice movement in our bones! ALL are welcome! We are also blessed to be joined by Unitarian Universalists, our beloved North Carolina justice partners, and dear friends from outside our state (shout out to our West Virginia fam!).
Dogwood Faith Project Training & Canvass at Monroe Halloween Happenings – Saturday October 17th from 9:00 – 4:00pm. Join us for our second-ever Dogwood Faith Project canvass in this critical community in the fight to resist Christian Nationalism. Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea provided for attendees. Using an innovative and evidence-based curriculum to reach people sympathetic to Christian Nationalism, we will have friendly conversations with voters to challenge Christian Nationalism without any awkward debates. Register Here
Canvass at the Hendersonville Apple Festival – Shout out to all the UUs from the Triad, Triangle, Greater Charlotte area and Western NC who joined us in Hendersonville for our first-ever Dogwood Faith Project Canvas. We talked to individuals at the Apple Festival about their faith, and about the importance of religious freedom. It was a big success!
National UU the Vote Phone Banks! Thank you to everyone from across the state and country who showed up on September 16th and 23rd for our phone banks into Henderson County!
The Dogwood Faith Project is UU Justice NC’s multiyear program to resist the rise of Christian Nationalism in North Carolina.
This fall, hundreds of UUs and friends participated in our three-part series led by Kaleb Graves. The series educated us on the complexity and diversity of Christian Nationalist identities, and equipped us with the tools to resist Christian Nationalism through canvassing, phonebanking, and everyday conversation.
Session 1 – Christian Nationalism(s): What and Why
Session 2 – Listening and Self-Interest Organizing
Session 3 – Having the Conversation
UU Justice NC lives into our faith by committing ourselves to the work of advancing community safety for our Muslim siblings, and all people in North Carolina. In September UUs across the state showed up in solidarity with our Muslim neighbors.
On Tuesday, September 8th people of faith gathered at the Mooresville Townhall Meeting to speak in support of the Islamic Center of Lake Norman and against anti-Muslim rhetoric. The project has already been approved and the building of the mosque will move forward. The next day, UUs were a part of the group of over 60 people who gathered at St. Stephen AME church in Wilmington for a Faith Table NC panel discussion featuring local and state Muslim leaders to talk about the rise in threats to Islamic communities across NC. The panel included:
- Zainab Baloch – Blueprint NC (Panel Moderator)
- Imam Safwan Salman – Imam & Director of the Islamic Center of Wilmington
- Al Rieder – Council on American-Islamic Relations
- Manzoor Cheema – Muslims for Social Justice
- Shuhud Mustafa – Muslim Women For
In September, UU Justice NC also dedicated two Friday Action Hour to the work of deepening our relationships with the Muslim community in NC. On 9/11 we wrote emails and letters of support and appreciation to mosques across the state. And on September 18th, we were joined by Al Rieder from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Al offered an in depth briefing on the eight credible threats to eight mosques in NC over the past few months.
THANK YOU to the 115 UUs and friends who donated to our annual Farm Worker Hydration Drive in partnership with El Futuro Es Nuestro. Your generosity has allowed UU Justice NC to purchase and deliver thousands of electrolyte powder packets to help to keep farm workers in NC safe and hydrated during the hot summer harvest months. Visit El Futuro Es Nuestro’s website to learn more about their worker-led initiative organizing H2A and immigrant farmworkers in North Carolina.
El Futuro es Nuestro (or It’s Our Future) is a worker-led initiative organizing H2A and immigrant farmworkers in North Carolina. They confront exploitative working and living conditions by training leaders, addressing grievances in the fields and labor camps, coordinating mutual aid, organizing direct action, and cultivating labor solidarity.
On Monday, June 22nd, people from across the state gathered in Raleigh (in the sweltering heat) for the “Protect Our Vote” Rally in Halifax mall organized by Common Cause NC. Thank you to all who joined us there! This rally was in response to the wave and election suppression tactics and legislation happening throughout the state in the lead up to the mid-term elections.
Rev. Lisa Garcia Sampson spoke at the rally about the role of faith in our state’s pro-democracy movement. Standing in front of the state’s General Assembly, she said,
“This year, our religious communities are organized and ready to join with others in combating voter intimidation at the polls, volunteering with our state’s 888-OUR-VOTE hotline, serving as county board of election monitors and doing whatever else these incredible partners ask us to do. Because enough is enough. This is our time, THAT is our house. And that the story of North Carolina is not what they say it is. It’s what WE make it.”
“NC lawmakers are pushing forward a massive election law “omnibus” bill that combines a variety of changes to voting access and election administration in one not so pretty package. This kind of complex, convoluted, wide-ranging legislation often creates confusion, undermines trust in the process, and ultimately makes it harder for North Carolinians to cast their ballots and have their voices heard.
House Bill 958 (Election Law Changes) is a weighty, complex bill that proposes a vast swath of changes to how elections are run in our state, including:
- Radically Politicizes the State Board of Elections. HB 958 provides 7 exempt positions to the State Board of Elections, allowing the Executive Director to replace civil servants with potentially partisan appointees that match the individual’s political leanings. Also restricts State Board and county board members from making public statements that support a party or encourage turnout in elections.
- Changes Photo ID Requirements for Military/Overseas Voters, narrowing who qualifies as a covered overseas voter (“never residents”) and what type of ID overseas voters must provide, and adding ID documentation requirements for overseas voters proving their last North Carolina residence in submitting absentee ballots
- Allows for voter challenges 5 days after the election if a candidate isn’t happy with the election’s outcome, creating a recipe for election sabotage
- Prohibits Rank Choice Voting. This prohibition undermines efforts to implement more representative electoral systems, which have been proven to be highly effective and popular in races across the country.
- Requires the North Carolina DMV to share FULL social security numbers with the State Board for registered voters. Currently voters need to only include the last four digits of their SSN OR their NC Driver’s License or DMV ID number.” Democracy NC
*** Tell lawmakers to reject this harmful mega elections using Democracy NC’s easy tool.
Join UU Justice NC for the official launch of our 2026 North Carolina UU the Vote Campaign! At this event, Kaleb Graves will roll-out our new multi-year campaign to combat Christian Nationalism in North Carolina. We will also hear from Rev. Lisa Garcia-Sampson, Nicole Pressley, the National Director of Side With Love, and NC UU the Vote Congregational Captains. Register Here!
In 2024, UU the Vote was by far the largest activation of UUs in the history of our state with over 1,100 UUs across 21 NC congregations getting involved. That’s nearly 1 in 5 UUs in the state. Together we reached out to over 100,000 voters in North Carolina – and did so in deep partnerships with our friends in the movement.
- Calling over 60,000 North Carolinians throughout the fall with Pro-Choice NC, Carolina Jews for Justice and National UU the Vote.
- Knocking on thousands of doors with North Carolina Asian Americans Together
- Writing over 40,000 postcards with Reclaim Our Vote.
And collaborating with Blueprint NC to help create our network's first ever state-wide Rapid Response Electoral Safety Network - "Chill Team". We recruited and trained 140 de-escalators across the state - a third of whom were UU – who quickly responded to reported threats at the polls. Now we are exploring how to make this new technology a permanent element of our state’s community safety efforts.
THAT is the power of our faith. But you ain't seen nothing yet. Join us on April 29th to learn about how you can get involved in the next chapter of NC UU the Vote! Register Here!
Thank you to the 20+ UU Congregations and faith leaders who signed onto the North Carolina Interfaith Letter Denouncing the U.S. & Israel’s War with Iran. Over 70 NC Congregation & Faith Leaders came together to call on the NC Congressional Delegation to take immediate action to limit the powers of the Trump administration to conduct this illegal and immoral war. UU Justice NC was proud to be a Lead signatory of this letter alongside Muslims for Social Justice, Muslim Women For, and the NC Council of Churches.
On Wednesday, April 8th, Rev. Lisa participated in a press conference alongside our Muslim, Jewish Christian, Quaker and veterans in Raleigh.
In this time of moral crisis, our faith calls us to live our values through courageous and prophetic action. This week, we continue this faithful work through the UU Solidarity Initiative’s Extended Week of Action against the violent, immoral actions of ICE.
Already this month, UUs have engaged in over 500 hours of action through daily Action Hours hosted by State Action Networks and national UU organizations like UUs for Social Justice and the UU Service Committee. Together we have called for:
– No More ICE Funding in the DHS Budget
– The End to Corporate Complicity with ICE
– The Closure of Dilley Detention Center in Texas and the release of the children and families being detained there.
– Justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti and all those who have been killed by ICE
And the 30 Days of Love Phone Call Blitz (based on UU Justice NC’s Phone Blitz Structure) has engaged 90 UU congregations across the country in making over 5,400 calls to key 3 members of congress calling for no more ICE funding in the DHS budget.
Avelo Announces They Will Halt All Deportation Flights
Statement from Side With Love –
“Thanks to the work of tireless organizing around the country—actions, boycotts, local resolutions, and so much more—we have WON. Avelo Airlines has announced they will be stopping their work with ICE. But on the same day, ICE murdered a civilian in Minnesota. A mother who was lawfully observing the agents, a constitutionally protected act of community defense.
And as we watch ICE break national laws and constitutional rights, and witness Trump’s brazen disregard for international law by kidnapping a head of state and threatening others, we are grounded in our reality: WE are the ones who must hold ICE, any corporation complicit in their horrific regime, and our political representatives accountable. We must continue to protect us, and we must continue to take action together.
On Thursday, January 15 at 8pm ET, please join our call to talk about what we did, and what we’ll do next to take on Avelo and build immigration defense strategies, groups, and power in our communities.” Register here
Background – The Stop Avelo campaign was launched in 2025 by local groups across the country to oppose Avelo Airlines’ $150 million contract with ICE to operate deportation flights. Avelo is complicit in deportation operations in which countless people are removed without due process or a guarantee of basic rights.
Avelo deportation flights have been criticized by the airline’s own flight attendants and pilots for inhumane conditions, including people being shackled and held in degrading conditions for hours at a time. UU Justice NC was proud to partner with Defend & Recruit, and the UUA’s Side With Love team on Friday Action Hours calling on Avelo to cancel their ICE contracts. Additionally, Unitarian Universalists across North Carolina took direct actions at airport in Wilmington, Charlotte and Greenville, SC!