After reaching 22,500 people in 2020, this year our UUtheVote Team has a 40,000 Points of Love initiative. Contact Shirley Adams or Carolyn Laughlin via REALM or at admin@ucevanston.org to get involved. 

This Sunday, April 10th, at 3:00 pm CT, join the UUA Side With Love Organizing Strategy Team’s UUtheVote Launch. This 90-minute live webinar will feature UUA President Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, state partners, and the new UU the Vote Campaign Manager. Learn how UUtheVote is going deeper into values-based conversation, showing up for ballot measures to combat voter suppression, fight for reproductive justice, and resist the criminalization of BIack, Indigenous, and people of color communities. Click here to register. 

Our 40,000 Points of Love initiative encompasses our partnerships with the UUA Side With Love Organizing Strategy Team, Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois (UUANI), Reclaim Our Vote (ROV), and local non-partisan non-profits organizing around getting out the vote and voting our values! We will be engaging in the following 4 areas: 

  1. Get Out The Vote (postcard and letter writing from home or in small groups)
  2. Voter Registration (in-person at various locations) 
  3. Advocacy/Education Virtual (phone banking or text banking) 
  4. Personal Conversations (in-person values conversations) 

What can you do? 

  • Contact Shirley Adams, our lead UUtheVote organizer, if you are interested in working to organize one of our voter registration, advocacy/education, or personal conversations areas. 
  • Contact Carolyn Laughlin, our Get Out the Vote organizer, if you are interested in sending postcards or letters. 

Unitarian Universalists understand that democracy is a process and a practice. It is one way we live our values out in the world. Join us!