{"id":16671,"date":"2016-11-21T14:18:19","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T19:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=16671"},"modified":"2016-12-01T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:54:06","slug":"uusj-delivers-uua-letter-cop-22-deliberations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uusj-delivers-uua-letter-cop-22-deliberations\/","title":{"rendered":"UUSJ Delivers UUA Letter on COP 22 Deliberations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16670\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16670 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COPP22_Letter_Delivery-e1479755831898-420x262.jpeg\" alt=\"copp22_letter_delivery\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COPP22_Letter_Delivery-e1479755831898-420x262.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COPP22_Letter_Delivery-e1479755831898-768x480.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COPP22_Letter_Delivery-e1479755831898-1024x639.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/COPP22_Letter_Delivery-e1479755831898.jpeg 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left &#8211; right: Lavona Grow, Rev. Rebecca Parker, Shaun Casey, Susan Rogers, Doris Marlin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On November 3, UUSJ members and supporters Allen Keiswetter and Lavona Grow of UU Church of Arlington, Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, Susan Rogers, and Doris Marlin of All Souls Church, Unitarian, delivered a letter from the UU Association President, Rev. Peter Morales, urging the US to encourage other nations to be more ambitious in addressing climate change.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16674\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/uusj.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Morales_UUA_Letter_Pershing_Marrakech_2016_FINAL-2-on-letterhead-1.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16674 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Allen_Keiswetter_Shaun-Casey-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"allen_keiswetter_shaun-casey\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaun Casey and Allen Keiswetter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The letter was officially received by Shaun Casey, US Special Representative for Religion and Global Affairs, at the US Department of State, who said, \u201cAll religious communities are coming together on climate Justice&#8230;It&#8217;s up to faith-based organizations to persuade the American public. We need to be more creative and remain diligent because you are uniquely poised as faith-based organizations to have that moral conversation.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/uusj.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Morales_UUA_Letter_Pershing_Marrakech_2016_FINAL-2-on-letterhead-1.pdf\">Read the letter&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doris Marlin, of All Souls Church, Unitarian, is among nine observers representing UUA at COP 22 in Marrakech, Morocco, November 7-18. Follow the <a href=\"http:\/\/climate.uu-uno.org\/view\/article\/5804a9680cf2204d222d31dc\/\">Marrakech 2016 Climate Conference COP22 blog<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commit2respond.org\/news\">Commit2Respond News blog<\/a>\u00a0to stay updated on her involvement. Support the UUA representatives\u2019 journey through their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithify.org\/projects\/support-uua-observers-to-un-climate-change-summit\/?updated=true\">Faithify campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 3, UUSJ members and supporters Allen Keiswetter and Lavona Grow of UU Church of Arlington, Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, Susan Rogers, and Doris Marlin of All Souls Church, Unitarian, delivered a letter from the UU Association President, Rev. Peter Morales, urging the US to encourage other nations to be more ambitious in addressing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uusj-delivers-uua-letter-cop-22-deliberations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UUSJ Delivers UUA Letter on COP 22 Deliberations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=16671"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16719,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16671\/revisions\/16719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}