{"id":20375,"date":"2019-02-13T13:28:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=20375"},"modified":"2019-02-13T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T18:28:23","slug":"uusj-adds-a-new-priority-defending-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uusj-adds-a-new-priority-defending-our-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"UUSJ Adds A New Priority: Defending Our Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"flexibleContainer\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"textContent\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"textContent\" valign=\"top\">\n<div>In a survey distributed last Fall, our members told us they want UUSJ to focus our priorities in four policy areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New &#8211; Defending Our Democracy &#8211; New<\/li>\n<li>Economic Justice<\/li>\n<li>Environmental and Climate Justice<\/li>\n<li>Immigration Reform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the January 2019 meeting, the UUSJ Board approved these four as our Priority Issues for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming years UUSJ will do advocacy, education, and witnessing in each of these priority areas to the extent we have interested volunteers. As a volunteer-driven organization, we can\u2019t pursue any of these important priorities without help from supporters like you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can you do?<\/strong>\u00a0Get involved! Engage!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join a task group on issues that are important to you<\/li>\n<li>Do topic surveillance \u2013 find and share info about Federal legislation and major developments<\/li>\n<li>Join or assist the UUSJ Capitol Hill Advocacy Corps \u2013 research, edit and write materials needed; and gather information about potential partner organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Join the Program Committee \u2013 help organize meetings and information sessions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Success of any task group depends on active participation by UUSJ members who are interested in the issue. So get involved now by contacting Pablo DeJes\u00fas at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@uusj.org\">info@uusj.org<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/salsa4.salsalabs.com\/o\/50780\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/signup?signup_page_KEY=7241\">volunteering<\/a>\u00a0on the web page.<\/p>\n<p>So what about the other issues\u2026..they are important too&#8211;you voted for them! Simply stated, we won\u2019t try to set up task groups for these issues and make them a priority focus. However, if a witnessing opportunity or piece of legislation presents itself, we can still be involved.<\/p>\n<p>Get involved and help UUSJ focus on Social Justice issues!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a survey distributed last Fall, our members told us they want UUSJ to focus our priorities in four policy areas: New &#8211; Defending Our Democracy &#8211; New Economic Justice Environmental and Climate Justice Immigration Reform At the January 2019 meeting, the UUSJ Board approved these four as our Priority Issues for the next two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/uusj-adds-a-new-priority-defending-our-democracy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UUSJ Adds A New Priority: Defending Our Democracy<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375","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=20375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20376,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375\/revisions\/20376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}