Maine Unitarian Universalist State Advocacy Network

Welcome to the Maine Unitarian Universalist
State Advocacy Network (MUUSAN)

MUUSAN is a statewide advocacy and public policy network anchored in our Unitarian Universalist faith and animated by its principles, MUUSAN welcomes as partners and collaborators all those who share our values. We link our 25 Maine congregations and many friends in an active legislative ministry.

Unitarian Universalism calls us to change oppressive policies and structures to those that promote human development, protect the environment, and support communities. Our mission is to educate and to organize for a more just society.

Our primary issues:

Democracy in Action, including efforts to strengthen our democracy by informing and engaging voters, protecting voting rights, promoting civil discourse, instituting Ranked-Choice Voting, supporting Clean Election laws and reducing the importance of money in campaigns.
Health Care, including advocacy for universal health care, monitoring legislation that affects our healthcare system, and promoting public health interventions.
Climate Change, including support for fossil energy conservation, development of solar and other renewable sources, and educating legislators and the public about the urgent call to slow climate change (with special attention to our own precious Gulf of Maine).
Racial, Native and Immigrant Justice, addressing systemic oppression by advocating with and on behalf of racial, ethnic and indigenous populations and responding to the need to interrupt disparities in Maine's legal and economic systems.

ACTION

Take a Shift for
Electoral Justice

UUtheVote Action 2020 is MUUSAN’s umbrella initiative to leverage and encourage Maine UU Congregations to gain electoral justice in Maine. We are partnering with UU the Vote National, the League of Women Voters of Maine, the Poor People’s Campaign, and our congregations' justice partners by contacting low-propensity voters in historically disenfranchised communities and helping turnout the vote in 2020.

Democracy itself is at stake on every election ballot in 2020. Given that Maine’s state legislature is now adjourned, all of MUUSAN’s Issue Groups are making electoral justice a priority for the remainder of 2020.

Click here to learn more about UUtheVote Action 2020 and how you and your church can take a shift for electoral justice.