{"id":17713,"date":"2017-09-11T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=17713"},"modified":"2017-09-11T11:21:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:21:53","slug":"uus-respond-charlottesville-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uus-respond-charlottesville-2\/","title":{"rendered":"UUs Respond to Charlottesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/images\/UU%20Clergy%20in%20Charlottesville.jpg-large\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"270\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>On August 12, over 80 UU clergy, and UUs marched in an interfaith, nonviolent protest against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. The day, turning violent, with three people dead and 19 injured, has elicited a strong response from UUs across the country. Read some of their reflections below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/rev-susan-frederick-gray\/love-showed-up-today-in-charlottesville\/1513594372033234\/\">Love Showed Up Today in Charlottesville<\/a><\/i>\u00a0&#8211; Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, UU Association President<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"http:\/\/tsdmemphis.com\/news\/2017\/aug\/17\/standing-against-fear-hate\/\">Standing Against Fear &amp; Hate<\/a><\/i>\u00a0&#8211; Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith, Congregational Life Consultant for the southern region of the UUA, in the New Tri-state Defender<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/charlottesville-ron-outen-cedar-lane-uu-church\/\">Ron Outen<\/a>, Cedar Lane UU Church<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/charlottesville-rev-linda-olson-peebles\/\">Rev. Linda Olson-Peebles<\/a>, interim minister Accotink UU Church<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UURevD\/posts\/10203462744524686\">Rev. David Miller<\/a>, minister of UU Congregation of Fairfax<\/li>\n<li><i><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/clergy-in-charlottesville-e95752415c3e\/\">Clergy in Charlottesville<\/a><\/i>\u00a0&#8211; ThinkProgress article that quotes Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith, Congregational Life Consultant for the southern region of the UUA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UUSJ member congregations organized solidarity vigils and UU organizations have released statements including Black Lives UU, Cedar Lane UU Church, and Washington Ethical Society.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uus-respond-charlottesville\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about UUs responding to Charlottesville through the UU World\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uuworld.org\/articles\/media-roundup-2017-08-18\">Media Roundup<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 12, over 80 UU clergy, and UUs marched in an interfaith, nonviolent protest against a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. The day, turning violent, with three people dead and 19 injured, has elicited a strong response from UUs across the country. Read some of their reflections below: Love Showed Up Today in Charlottesville\u00a0&#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uus-respond-charlottesville-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UUs Respond to Charlottesville<\/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":[97,9,1010,3,17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-anti-racism-multiculturalism","category-featured-news","category-news","category-unitarian-universalism","category-uusj-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713","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=17713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17714,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713\/revisions\/17714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}