{"id":17321,"date":"2017-05-01T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=17321"},"modified":"2017-05-02T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:01:46","slug":"success-reversing-inequality-healthcare-justice-uu-value-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/success-reversing-inequality-healthcare-justice-uu-value-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Success at the &#8220;Reversing Inequality\u2014Healthcare Justice is a UU Value&#8221; Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"flexibleImage\" title=\"Text\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/images\/Pablo,%20Rachel,%20and%20Rep%20Ami%20Bera.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/center><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>From left: Pablo DeJesus, UUSJ Executive Director,<br \/>\nCongressman Ami Bera (CA-7), and Rachel Bennett Steury, UUJEC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over 60 UUs from 16 states attended the conference, hosted by UUSJ and the UUs for a Just Economic Community, and took part in advocating with members of Congress on the implications of inequality decisions about our healthcare system. UU congregations in 18 states wrote a total of 407 letters, which were delivered to their senators and representatives by the conference attendees. Some testimonies from the conference:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I liked not only the presenters, but the connections we made with each other.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I learned a lot and actually doing real lobbying gave me a sense of purpose and made it feel worthwhile.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Inspiring and made me feel like a participant in democracy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left: Pablo DeJesus, UUSJ Executive Director, Congressman Ami Bera (CA-7), and Rachel Bennett Steury, UUJEC &nbsp; Over 60 UUs from 16 states attended the conference, hosted by UUSJ and the UUs for a Just Economic Community, and took part in advocating with members of Congress on the implications of inequality decisions about our healthcare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/success-reversing-inequality-healthcare-justice-uu-value-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Success at the &#8220;Reversing Inequality\u2014Healthcare Justice is a UU Value&#8221; Conference<\/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":[97,93,29,1010,3,13,17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-dc","category-economic-justice","category-featured-news","category-news","category-politics","category-unitarian-universalism","category-uusj-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321","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=17321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17322,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions\/17322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}