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2025 UU GA LAN Conference

Join fellow Unitarian Universalists at the 2025 UU GA LAN Conference, “Connecting for a Brighter Future,” November 14-16, for an inspiring weekend of community building and strategic planning for the upcoming legislative session. This energizing gathering will feature an intersectional panel on solidarity across issues to protect democracy, with leaders from environmental justice, immigration, restorative justice, and bodily autonomy movements sharing insights on unified action.

Attendees will participate in hands-on skill-building sessions using the Side with Love organizing framework, develop congregational action plans, and learn practical tools for community engagement and base building. From the optional Friday evening welcome gathering to Sunday’s optional beach cleanup and closing worship at UUCS, participants will connect with UU communities across Georgia, share successes from previous advocacy efforts, and prepare for the 2026 legislative landscape with new digital organizing tools and a clear roadmap for collective action for 2026!

All are invited to UU GA LAN (Legislative Action Network) Third Annual Conference on November 15 and 16 in Savannah, Georgia.

Please register for this event.

For further information:  justice@uuathensga.org

Happenings in a List!

For details on many of these, check out “This Month & Beyond” (either on the left of these page or here).

Please make sure you are on Realm/Connect, so you will receive updates and reminders of your groups’ meetings and events directly to your inbox and have easy access to zoom links for virtual happenings.

November

All month

  • Angel Project 2025 [throughout November 2025]
  • Guest at Your Table 
  • Food Bank CANtributions
  • Share the Plate Cause-of-the-Month
  •  1 Justice Partner (AADM) Event
  •  1 Voces y versos Performance, 7-9 p.m.
  •  2 End of Daylight Saving Time
  •  2 First Sunday Forum:  The Doctrine of Discovery:  Unmasking the Domination Code  
  •  2 Singing Meditation
  •  2  Conversation Cafe
  •  4 Special Statewide Election
  •  9 Guest at Your Table (through December 31)
  •  9 Start of Family Promise Week (partnering with Holy Cross Lutheran Church)
  •  9 Book Talks
  • 10 The Gathering from Side with Love
  • 11 Second Lookers
  • 11 Adult RE (Religious Exploration) Opportunity:  Are We Too Violent?
  • 15 AADM–UUFA Justice Partner–NEG Black Business Expo
  • 15-16 UU GA LAN (Legislative Action Network) Third Annual Conference 
  • 16 Third Sunday Forum: Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement (AADM) Justice Partner Update
  • 16  Conversation Cafe
  • 20 UUA Welcoming Day of Observation (TDOR)
  • 21  Justice Partner event:  Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition (AIRC) Meeting
  • 23 UUFA Endowment Sunday
  • 23 Justice Partner event:  AADM People’s Movement Assembly
  • 30 UUFA Justice Action Collaborative

December

  •  5 Athens Pride and Queer Collective–UUFA Justice Partner–Operation Transformation
  • 7 Conversation Cafe
  • 8 The Gathering from Side with Love
  • 9 Second Lookers 
  • 9 Adult RE (Religious Exploration) Opportunity: Are We Too Violent?
  • 14 Priceless Sale
  • 14 Book Talks
  • 20 Solstice Service
  • 21 Third Sunday Forum
  • 21 Conversation Cafe

January

All Month — Winter Clothing Drive

January 2026:  Winter Clothing Drive All Month

  •  4 Conversation Cafe
  • 11 Conversation Cafe
  • 13 Second Lookers
  • 13 Adult RE (Religious Exploration) Opportunity:  Are We Too Violent?
  • 15 Justice Partner event:  AADM Social Justice Awards and Gala 2026
  • 19 MLK Day Parade (3 p.m., Washington & Hull)
  • 27 Adult RE (Religious Exploration) Opportunity:  Are We Too Violent?

February 

  •   1 Conversation Cafe
  •   7 Lead with Love
  •   8 Nominations Open for 2026-27 Share the Plate Cause-of-the Month Organizations
  • 10 Second Lookers
  • 10 Adult RE (Religious Exploration) Opportunity:  Are We Too Violent?
  • 15 Conversation Cafe
  • 22 Nominations Close for 2026-27 Share the Plate Cause-of-the Month Organizations

Looking for regular meetings? Join groups in Realm/Connect and check the summary on this page to the left.  Don’t know about Realm yet? Contact Meredyth at members at uuathensga.org to learn more.  

Rather see this as a calendar grid?  Visit uuathensga.org/calendar.