{"id":24096,"date":"2021-07-12T12:15:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T16:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?page_id=24096"},"modified":"2024-09-13T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T20:03:29","slug":"individual-membership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/individual-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24292 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FBbanner-e1634135742652-1024x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FBbanner-e1634135742652-1024x162.png 1024w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FBbanner-e1634135742652-420x67.png 420w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FBbanner-e1634135742652-768x122.png 768w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FBbanner-e1634135742652.png 1711w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #4242ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #4242ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/uusj.salsalabs.org\/202425_donation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a Member or Renew Your Membership<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your membership helps UUSJ provide you with regular updates such as our monthly eNews, and with timely notices of opportunities to participate in UUSJ activities and events. Your donation is also needed to organize, research, conduct meetings, and \u201cbe at the table\u201d to advance UU principles before Congress. To this end, UUSJ volunteers and staff have taken action to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expand its\u00a0<em>Write Here! Write Now!<\/em>\u00a0Congressional letter-writing campaign, including the July focus to preserve Black lives by urging passage of key provisions of the bill authored by the Congressional Black Caucus;<\/li>\n<li>Support the UUSJ Capitol Hill Advocacy Corps that carries the UU message via virtual meetings with Congressional staff during the pandemic;<\/li>\n<li>Mobilize voters and oppose voter suppression through our joint programs with the Reeb Project for Voting Rights and UU the Vote;<\/li>\n<li>Engage in witness activities and stand for social, economic, immigration, and environmental justice for impacted communities; and,<\/li>\n<li>Build UU congregation capacity by sponsoring citizen advocacy training programs such as our \u201cStorytelling For Advocacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #990000;\"><strong>Help UUSJ continue to spread the word for UU Values!<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>We have been working hard to become more relevant and effective than ever.\u00a0 Over the last few years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have founded the Advocacy Corps, which visits Congressional offices regularly, has handed Congress over 11,000 letters from UU\u2019s, and has had nearly 500 meetings with Congressional offices, explaining UU values and positions to them, calling their attention to bills incorporating those values.<\/li>\n<li>Our <em>Write Here! Write Now! <\/em>(WHWN) and Action Alert efforts are generating letters and emails to Congress from across the US.<\/li>\n<li>As part of a multi-year strategic planning project, we have a new board representing multiple generations, racial backgrounds, nations of origin, and geographic areas, all charged with embodying a new vision.<\/li>\n<li>We are working to develop the necessary relationships with frontline groups to support environmental\/climate justice, immigrants, racial and economic equity, voting rights, and democracy.<\/li>\n<li>Although we cannot claim full credit, our efforts have borne fruit\u2014Congress recently enacted all or parts of eight issues that were subjects of WHWN\u2019s in the past couple of years (details in articles cited below).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donations from individuals make up most of UUSJ\u2019s budget. Although any donation makes you an individual member, UUSJ suggests $60 for those who can afford it, and more significant donations enable more advocacy, as the donation page clarifies.\u00a0 <strong>Your new or renewing\u00a0membership is critical to preserving the ever-present national voice for UU values in Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Become a Member or Renew Your Membership &nbsp; Your membership helps UUSJ provide you with regular updates such as our monthly eNews, and with timely notices of opportunities to participate in UUSJ activities and events. Your donation is also needed to organize, research, conduct meetings, and \u201cbe at the table\u201d to advance UU principles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/individual-membership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Individual Membership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24096","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24096","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24096"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26317,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24096\/revisions\/26317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}