
Got an old computer laying around? Need a computer? We support Connecting For Good in Kansas City!
Got an old computer laying around? Need a computer? We support Connecting For Good in Kansas City!
Gaia Community unreservedly supports Black Lives Matter Kansas City and the protesters in opposition to police brutality. As a Unitarian Universalist congregation, we “affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person” (1st Principle of the Unitarian Universalist Association). Currently, our focus is on systemic racism oppressing Black lives, indigenous populations, and people of color, specifically calling for change in unjust law enforcement. Police brutality, racially biased police practices, and the criminalization of protest damage our democracy and both threaten and end the lives of Black people, Indigenous people, and other People of Color in our communities.
We encourage our members, visitors, friends and supporters to take action in any of the following ways:
Gaia Community affirms the following list of demands by Black Lives Matter KC:
BLMKC obtained the signature/agreement of Mayor Lucas to the following with a timeline of six months.
At a recent Ritual for Business, the Committee of the Whole of Gaia Community adopted a resolution in support of the Medicare for All Act of 2019. Our support for this legislation follows decades of advocacy within our community and the Unitarian Universalist Association at large in favor of universal health care in the United States. We believe that health care is a human right, and hope that this Act will set us on the road to securing that right. The full text of our resolution follows.
Resolution in Support of the Medicare for All Act of 2019
WHEREAS, Gaia Community is a Kansas City Unitarian Universalist congregation and is concerned about the well-being of our members and the greater Kansas City community, and
WHEREAS, Unitarian Universalism is committed to the inherent worth and dignity of every person; justice, equity and compassion in human relations; and the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large, and
Continue reading “Gaia Community Supports Medicare for All”Each week at our Sunday service, Gaia collects non-perishable food items for Harvesters Community Food Network. Please help us help others this Solstice season by bringing a few items along when you join us for rituals. Harvesters accepts food in cans, boxes, or packets, but no glass containers, please. Whole-grain and high-protein food is especially useful right now, as are some household items. Thank you!