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Fellowship takes stand 

The Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, meeting as a committee of the whole on Sunday, Sept. 16, after the suicidal attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, make a renewed commitment: 

• To seek the spiritual strength to live and work for peace, justice, and equality for all. 

• To oppose all acts of terrorism committed by individuals and by groups and by governments. 

• To work for social justice by communicating with our elected officials to urge them to uphold the principles of peace, the United States Constitution, and the U.N. Charter. 

• To search inside ourselves for the prejudices we all feel against “the others” and to work to overcome these feelings that can only lead to acts of intolerance and violence. 

• To reach out to people in the Arab American and Muslim communities who are being mindlessly attacked. 

• To offer information on conscientious objector status and solace to young men and women who joined the Armed Forces in order to live constructive lives and who now find that they are unwilling to continue in the Services, having discovered that they really cannot commit acts of violence against other human beings. 

• To join with other organizations that support these points. 

• To agree, within our community, to continue to agree and disagree on many spiritual and social justice questions, as we join together as a spiritual and social justice community to do our part for peace within ourselves, toward each other, and toward our neighbors and fellow creatures on this planet. 

Ann Ginger, Berkeley 

Richard Challacombe 

for the fellowship