{"id":20823,"date":"2019-06-30T20:07:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T00:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=20823"},"modified":"2019-06-30T20:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T00:07:22","slug":"the-power-of-we-general-assembly-social-justice-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/the-power-of-we-general-assembly-social-justice-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Power of We\u201d &#8211; General Assembly Social Justice Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Statement of Conscience (SOC), Our Democracy Uncorrupted, calls on us to live out our 5th Principle, \u201c&#8230;use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.\u201d The SOC was adopted with amendments, and will be available in final form soon but you can read the draft pre-GA SOC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/action\/process\/csais\/corruption-of-our-democracy\/2016-2020-csai\"><strong>HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It calls on UUs as individuals, in congregations, in districts and state legislative ministries, and the UUA itself to take bold action to support living up to our democractic ideals, including advocating for free, fair, and regular elections; promoting meaningful channels of political participation and basic individual liberties, including ways to improve our own denominational policies and practices. The SOC encourages congregations to participate in \u201c&#8230;UUSJ\u2019s \u201cWrite Here! Write Now\u201d campaign for democracy reform.\u201d To learn more about UUSJ\u2019s\u00a0 \u201cDefending Our Democracy\u201d new 2019 priority, link <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=20689\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0. (Link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uua.org\/ga\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for GA Videos, program materials, and documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Statement of Conscience (SOC), Our Democracy Uncorrupted, calls on us to live out our 5th Principle, \u201c&#8230;use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large.\u201d The SOC was adopted with amendments, and will be available in final form soon but you can read the draft pre-GA SOC HERE. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/the-power-of-we-general-assembly-social-justice-highlights\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cThe Power of We\u201d &#8211; General Assembly Social Justice Highlights<\/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":[1934,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-unitarian-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823","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=20823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20824,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20823\/revisions\/20824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}