I became deeply interested in voting rights after January 6th.\u00a0 In discussing the issue and my concerns with my congregational leaders they asked me to start a group focused on preserving our democracy.\u00a0 And I did.<\/p>\n
Once the group was formed I started looking around for how we can make a difference.\u00a0 Our state, Washington, has an excellent voting system and wonderful Senators and Representatives who are strong champions for the freedom to vote.\u00a0 While we can provide them with support and encouragement we wanted to do more. I discovered UUSJ. And I am glad about it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m excited to work with UUSJ and its Democracy Action Team (DAT) because it gives my Washington state team the ability to make a difference nationally.\u00a0\u00a0We participated in the recent Voting Rights Write Here, Write Now<\/em> campaign and are looking forward to helping with future actions.<\/p>\n I\u2019m also personally fulfilled by being a small part of facilitating the opportunity for constituents to have their voices heard.\u00a0 From Immigrants describing how U.S. voting freedom serves as a beacon of hope throughout the world to constituents telling their Senator that even though their state is doing a good job with voting rights they have relatives of color in other states who deserve those same rights.\u00a0 These meetings also make a direct difference by sharing information between Senators\u2019 offices, several times prompting the Aid to commit to following up with other offices.<\/p>\n The UUSJ DAT provides me with the opportunity to interface with others who are as passionate about voting rights as I am.\u00a0 I\u2019m appreciative of the opportunity to be a part of this vitally important team.<\/p>\n Deborah Bauder<\/strong> Democracy Action Team, Chair I started looking around for how we can make a difference I became deeply interested in voting rights after January 6th.\u00a0 In discussing the issue and my concerns with my congregational leaders they asked me to start a group focused on preserving our democracy.\u00a0 And I did. Once the group was formed I started looking … Continue reading Deborah Bauder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1952],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24484,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24483\/revisions\/24484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUUSJ Democracy Action Team, Member<\/p>\n
\nEdmonds Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"