Skill Up: Letters to the Editor

We hope you gained some helpful knowledge on how to write guest columns or letters to the editor of your local newspaper (and other publications) is a vital way you can inform the public, advance your views, and inspire action. This skill-up showed you to maximize both the impact of your writing and your chances to get published.

Here are the resources from the workshop:

Link to meeting Zoom recording
Closed Captions
Skill up Slides
Jeff’s tips on Letters to the Editor: sidewithlove.org/craft-letters-editor
Op-Ed tips: sidewithlove.org/writing-guest-commentaries
Breakout group sample letters & questions
See the Skill Up that Rev. Ranwa Hammamy led about Faith out Loud: Framing & Claiming for more on this
Our opening reading came from the book Justice on Earth, Yep, reading was from Pamela Sparr’s essay, “Transforming Unitarian Universalist Culture: Stepping Out of Our Silos and Selves”

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Are you ready to take your work with Side with Love to the next level? We have an amazing crew of leaders in our volunteer squads who run phonebanks, crunch data, set up and support events, and manage communications and media-- and we want YOU to join us! If you are ready to learn, grow, and work with awesome UUs from across the country, please read on for more info about our dynamic squads:

Data Squad - provides back end support for actions, organizes our resources, handles data analytics
Fun & Spiritual Nourishment Squad - tends to the spirit and wellbeing of our Side with Love community
Media Squad - creates content & graphics, organizes and catalogs media, amplifies on social media
Phone Bank Squad - leads and provides logistical and tech support to phonebanks and other online events so that participants have a smoother, supported, spiritually grounded experience
Welcome Squad - Ushers new members into Slack, provides welcome and support

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