I started working as an activist on issues related to democracy more than 10 years ago — just before the disastrous Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, and just before joining a UU congregation in my home state of New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Initially, I focused on the problem of big money in politics, which was surreptitiously turning our country into an oligarchy.\u00a0 In my activities, I have always looked for actions that could have the greatest\u00a0impact<\/i>\u00a0on public policy, or at least on public opinion.\u00a0\u00a0This is such a critical time as we try to save democracy in our country.<\/p>\n
This in a nutshell is why I joined the Democracy Action team of UUSJ in the summer of 2021.\u00a0Action.\u00a0Impact.<\/p>\n
Quite a few of the organizations I have worked with spend a lot of time talking, motivating, reflecting, etc.\u00a0 What I like most about the Democracy Action Team is that we take action with people in power, such as members of Congress.\u00a0 And we do it in a highly professional, carefully constructed manner.\u00a0 I have to believe that makes a difference.<\/p>\n
Finally, in this\u00a0Thanksgiving season<\/strong>, I feel gratitude and pride for Unitarian Universalists everywhere, who work tirelessly to make a better world.<\/p>\n Tony Giordano<\/strong> I started working as an activist on issues related to democracy more than 10 years ago — just before the disastrous Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, and just before joining a UU congregation in my home state of New Jersey. Initially, I focused on the problem of big money in politics, which … Continue reading Tony Giordano<\/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-24496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496","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=24496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24497,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions\/24497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUUSJ Democracy Action Team, Member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"