{"id":4507,"date":"2018-02-27T09:24:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/?page_id=4507"},"modified":"2020-04-03T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:05:02","slug":"events-gun-violence-prevention","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/events-gun-violence-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Events – Gun Violence Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Past\u00a0Events<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Since Parkland, gun violence prevention activists have been very busy, here in New Jersey and across the United States.<\/p>\n

Through the Peace and Justice committee, our congregation has long advocated responsible gun control. In the last two months, we\u2019ve actively partnered with other gun violence prevention groups in Bergen County. Among the activities we\u2019ve been engaged in are the following:<\/p>\n

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On March 12, 2018, the USR hosted the Bergen County Forum on Gun Violence Prevention<\/strong>. More than a hundred activists attended, among these, from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, Bergen County Moms Demand Action, Bergen County Students Demand Action, Ridgewood JOLT, and Women for Progress<\/p>\n

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We sponsored the March 24, 2018\u00a0March for Our Lives<\/strong> at the Hackensack Courthouse. Thousands of activists participated in this march and others across Northern New Jersey<\/p>\n

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On April 7, 2018, the USR hosted the Students Demand Action Town Hall for Our Lives<\/strong>. The students spoke with U.S. Senator Bob Menendez and Congressman Bill Pascrell before a standing-room only audience in Anderson<\/p>\n

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On April 20, 2018, the Social Responsibilities Council was one of only five groups invited to have a table at the Bergen County Students Demand Action Day of Action <\/strong>at George Washington Middle School in Ridgewood<\/p>\n

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USR Congregants interested in Gun Violence Prevention are engaged with the UU FaithAction NJ Gun Violence Prevention Task Force<\/a>. We participated in the UU FaithAction NJ Plenary on April 21, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Past\u00a0Events Since Parkland, gun violence prevention activists have been very busy, here in New Jersey and across the United States. Through the Peace and Justice committee, our congregation has long advocated responsible gun control. In the last two months, we\u2019ve actively partnered with other gun violence prevention groups in Bergen County. Among the activities we\u2019ve … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8274,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4507","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8277,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4507\/revisions\/8277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuridgewood.org\/usrstage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}