Unitarian Universalists of Sterling

Since 1922, the AUA (American Unitarian Association), at its annual May Meeting, and now the UUA, at its annual General Assemby (GA), has invited a celebrated spokesperson to provide a lecture to the attendees. Only 2 years have been missed...1945 due to WW II, and 1950, when the AUA celebrated its 125th anniversary. The Lecture series is named for the Ware family and is funded by a 1920 bequest by Harriet E. Ware of Milton, MA. Previous lecturers have included Martin Luther King, Jr., Norman Lear, and poet Mary Oliver.

The 2008 Ware Lecture was provided by Van Jones, an activist working to combine solutions to two of America's most pressing problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Jones co-founded the Ella Baker Centter for Human Rights, which promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration. He and the Center worked with Congress to pass the Green Jobs Act of 2007, and with the City of Oakland, CA, to create a "Green Jobs Corp." and the country's first-ever Green Enterprise Zone. Jones is a 1993 Yale Law graduate.

Attendees at this year's Lecture who have attended multiple GA's in the past have called this the best Ware Lecture ever.

Join your fellow UUS'ers to watch the video of the Lecture and participate in a discussion afterward.