BLM2WUU is a collaboration of the 5 Unitarian Universalist churches in Milwaukee, Waukesha, and Ozaukee Counties which came together to facilitate racial justice education within our congregations and to coordinate and amplify the voice of Unitarian Universalists in racial justice work and actions within the greater Milwaukee metro area.

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The collaboration started in Nov. 2015, in response to the 2015 UU General Assembly Action of Immediate Witness encouraging UU congregations to take action in support of Black Lives Matter and other black led racial justice movements fighting for racial justice against the harsh racist practices to which many black people are subjected. 

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Since Jan. 2016, BLM2WUU has conducted 4 workshops bringing together members of all 5 congregations to learn about Black Lives Matter, white privilege and white supremacy, skills for interacting in multi-racial situations, skills for discussing racism productively, and the roles of whites as allies in the work for racial justice.  We also encouraged members to engage in actions in support of police violence victims, Dontre Hamilton and Jay Anderson, and efforts to change the Milwaukee and Wauwatosa police practices;  to support efforts by the WISDOM organization to reduce mass incarceration in Wisconsin.  In spring 2017, BLM2WUU initiated planning for a conference to bring in Chris Crass, nationally known anti-racist activist and trainer to build our skills for collective action.  We organized 16 local racial justice partner groups to help fund and plan the conference which drew over 260 people on April 1, 2017 and which has resulted in an on-going commitment by the partner groups to continue coordinating and collaborating with each other.