As part of UU the Vote 2026: Ignite Solidarity, Reimagine Democracy, Solidarity Summits are regional interfaith justice training and practice gatherings designed to strengthen the connections, skills, and capacities needed for this moment.
This moment calls us to build and rebuild our understanding of what it means spiritually to be neighbors and to engage in many forms of sacred community defense. Across faith traditions, we are increasingly called to respond to authoritarian violence with care, strategy, and coordination.
Together, moral clarity and organizing power have built essential infrastructure for justice movements: care, imagination, collaboration, and cooperation. Solidarity Summits are part of continuing that legacy.
These gatherings bring together Unitarian Universalists, people of faith across traditions, lay leaders, organizers, advocates, and community partners to strengthen regional networks, deepen relationships, and practice the kind of solidarity this moment demands.
Why Solidarity Summits Now
We are living in a time that demands more than urgency. It demands spiritual grounding, political clarity, and collective action.
Across the country, communities are facing escalating threats to democracy, bodily autonomy, immigrant communities, climate justice, and the safety and dignity of our neighbors. In moments like these, justice work cannot be sustained by outrage alone. It requires relationships, preparation, and shared practice.
Solidarity Summits are designed to help people gather across faith communities and organizing spaces to build the tools, trust, and strategy needed for the long work ahead.
These gatherings are rooted in the belief that love calls us into deep relationship, and asks us to respond to this moment with courage, care, and coordinated action.
Purpose & Goals
Solidarity Summits are designed to equip interfaith leaders and participants with the relationships, tools, and practice needed to grow power in strategic sites for justice, democracy, and collective liberation.
Primary goals include:
Building interfaith capacity for justice-centered organizing, advocacy, and public action
Grounding participants in a deep legacy of creative and prophetic faith-rooted organizing
Strengthening regional interfaith and community networks committed to sustained justice work
Developing a shared moral narrative and practical toolkit across traditions
Seeding concrete post-gathering actions, campaigns, and collaborations
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