Final texts of Actions of Immediate Witness now online

The six social witness resolutions introduced by petition and adopted by the 2009 UUA General Assembly in Salt Lake City last month are now online:

• Action of Immediate Witness 1: Advocate Pending Legislation Toward Clean, Honest, and Fair Elections in the United States


• Action of Immediate Witness 2: U.S. Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty


• Action of Immediate Witness 3: In Support of America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act


• Action of Immediate Witness 4: Support Bolivian UUs Struggling for Justice and Human Rights


• Action of Immediate Witness 5: U.S.-Sponsored Torture: A Call for a Commission of Inquiry


• Action of Immediate Witness 6: Oppose Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity-Based Violence in Iraq

Delegates call for commission of inquiry into U.S. torture

Delegates to the UUA General Assembly have just adopted Action of Immediate Witness 5, "U.S.-Sponsored Torture: A Call for a Commission of Inquiry," which endorses the National Religious Campaign Against Torture's call for commission of inquiry.

Delegates support Bolivian UU human rights struggle

Delegates are adopting Actions of Immediate Witness so quickly we're falling just a bit behind here in the blogging department!

The General Assembly adopted Action of Immediate Witness 4, "Support Bolivian UUs Struggling for Justice and Human Rights." The AIW expresses the General Assembly's support for Bolivian UU leader Olga Flores Bedregal, who has been calling on her government to provide information about victims of disappearance by the country's military government, and calls on UUs to write to the Bolivian ambassador urging the country to establish a truth commission to investigate human rights violations.

General Assembly supports Red Rock Wilderness Act

The UUA General Assembly has just adopted Action of Immediate Witness 3, "In Support of America's Red Rock Wilderness Act," which calls for the passage of S 799/HR 1925 to protect Utah's "spectacular and irreplaceable wild lands."

Delegates urge ratification of nuclear test ban treaty

Delegates to the UUA General Assembly have just adopted Action of Immediate Witness 2, "U.S. Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty," which urges the United States Senate to ratify a treaty that the United States signed in 1996.

General Assembly supports fair elections legislation

Delegates have just adopted Action of Immediate Witness 1, "Advocate Pending Legislation Toward Clean, Honest and Fair Elections in the United States." The AIW supports current bills—HR 2894, HR 1826, and S 751-752—and proposes nine amendments that would strengthen HR 2894.