{"id":2,"date":"2009-07-07T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T14:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:22:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23454 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MisVisVal-898x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"573\" \/>UUSJ works to make our Government fairer and more inclusive by the following actions:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>1. Selecting issues strategically that are moving in Congress<\/strong> and making it easy for UUs to express their views to Congress on those issues. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>2. Arranging meetings with Congressional staff so UUs can talk to Congress<\/strong>. Since 2020 these meetings have expanded virtually so that everyone across the nation can meet with Congress! <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>3. Publicizing Action Alerts<\/strong>, where individual UUs may sign a letter to their Congressional representatives advocating for a solution to a particular injustice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>4. Maintaining Issue Action Teams on the priority issues. <\/strong>The Immigration Action Team and the Democracy Action Team are the most active. We do, however, engage with our Environmental Action Team and Economic Justice teams regularly. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>5. Conducting workshops and webinars<\/strong> to educate members on emerging issues and how to advocate more effectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>6. Organizing witnessing activities,<\/strong> including participating in the Women\u2019s March and the Poor People\u2019s Campaign.\u00a0These are timely, life-changing events to join with other UUs when writing<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>is not enough, and to let their voices be heard. Check out uusj.org to find out about any current witnessing opportunities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Of Interest:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/about\/uusj-history-vision-10-27-2013-1-pdf\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10003\">UUSJ History &amp; Vision 10-27-2013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UUSJ works to make our Government fairer and more inclusive by the following actions:\u00a0 1. Selecting issues strategically that are moving in Congress and making it easy for UUs to express their views to Congress on those issues. \u00a0 2. Arranging meetings with Congressional staff so UUs can talk to Congress. Since 2020 these meetings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26801,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/26801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}