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[jojane (jojane]

Hi, all - this info will appear in the next MUUSJA e-newsletter (if you
don't get the e-updates, sign up with Lauren Culbert -
lculbert [at] comcast.net).  - Jo


Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance
Annual Meeting and Celebration!
Saturday, January 6th, 2007
First Universalist Church of Minneapolis
3400 Dupont Avenue South
3:00 - 5:30pm
(RSVP to Jo Haberman jojane [at] juno.com)
 
Welcome the New Year with MUUSJA &
Minnesota's newly elected Secretary of State - (and UU) - Mark Ritchie!
 
·        Mark Ritchie - "Renewing Our Democracy: new hope, new vision"
·        (short) MUUSJA business & appreciation of MUUSJA leaders
·        enjoy delicious appetizers and socialize with UU activists from
around the state!
 
Mark Ritchie, long-time member of First Universalist Church of
Minneapolis, is the newly elected Minnesota Secretary of State.  After 20
months of traveling extensively around the state, hearing from and
talking with people in all walks of life about their concerns for our
democracy, Mark has many insights to share!
 
For 20 years Mark served as president of the Minneapolis-based Institute
for Agriculture and Trade Policy, a nonprofit organization working to
foster long-term sustainability for Minnesota's rural communities. Two
years ago he took a leave of absence to lead National Voice, a new
national coalition of more than 1,000 non-partisan organizations that
registered and turned out more than five million new voters nationwide -
one of the largest non-partisan voter mobilizations in history.
 
 
 
Sign up by January 31st, 2007!  Limited to 35 UUs in Prairie Star
District... 
Social Justice Training for UUs!
Friday, April 13th        1:00 ? 5:00 pm
(right before Prairie Star District Annual  Conference starts Friday
evening...)
Location: First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis
900 Mount Curve (up the hill from the Walker Art Center)
www.firstunitariansociety.org
$35 per person
 
 
Strengthening UU Justice-making: 
linking community service & social change, and deepening UU leadership
Trainer:  Rev. Valerie Ackerman
 
Whether members of your congregation are active in service work in the
larger community, or doing social change organizing and policy work ? or
both! - this training is for you.  Join UUs from across Prairie Star
District in learning about connections between community service and
social change work; deepen your understanding of the role of reflection
in finding our UU moral voice; & look at ways UU leadership can be
strengthened for more effective social justice partnerships and outcomes.
 
Trainer: as a UU community minister, Rev. Valerie Mapstone Ackerman
provides spiritual support to domestic violence victims, directs Peace
House-Tulsa, organizes the Oklahoma Rural Freethinkers, serves as
president of Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice and
consults with congregations and social change groups.  She has been a
parish minister, social worker, adjunct professor, politician, therapist,
counselor and life-long dissident and heretic. 
 
This training is co-sponsored by Prairie Star District Social Justice
Network, Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance, and First Unitarian
Society Social Action Committee.
 
To register - contact Jo Haberman, jojane [at] juno.com, (612-822-8870)
Remember....sign up by January 31st.
 
 
 
 
 

                                       Minnesota UU Social Justice
Working Group:  Reproductive Rights: Sacred Choices
                                                                         
          2007 Campaign Calendar
FFI or to volunteer contact co-chairs Cathy Apostle, caquilt51 [at] aol.com,
952-941-0642 or Jody Beresford, Spice77 [at] aol.com, 952-828-9977 - 
Association of Universalist Women (AUW), First Universalist Church, 3400
Dupont Avenue S. Minneapolis, MN   55408, 612-825-1701       
firstuniv.org
 
 
Monday, January 22          6:30 PM         Women Who Read Book Club
Potluck and Discussion; First Universalist Church Library (3400 Dupont
Avenue South, Mpls); join us to discuss How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved
America by Cristina Page and Reproductive Justice.   For future dates,
join Women Who Read Book Club, 6:30pm - meets on the 4th Monday of every
month.  All are welcome to attend. Meetings are usually held in homes so
interested women should phone First Universalist Church (612-825-1701) to
get the next book title and location.  
 
 
 
Monday, January 22           4-6pm   Celebrate the Anniversary of  Roe V.
Wade; reception at Macalester Alumni House, 1044 Summit Ave., St. Paul
(suggested donation $15);  for carpool contact Cathy
Apostle-caquilt51 [at] aol.com.
 
 
 
Saturday, January 27-   1-2:30pm          Theological Reflections on
Reproductive Rights 
First Universalist Church join Rev. Kate Tucker, Meredith Schonfield
-Hicks (Clara Barton Intern for Women?s Issues, Unitarian Universalist
Washington Office for Advocacy), and Kelli Clement , Seminarian for
Choice.   Hear UU women's beliefs on abortion that are Pro-Faith,
Pro-Family and Pro-Community.
 
 
                 
 Sunday, January 28  -           All are warmly invited to attend both
9am AND 11am services at First Universalist Church  for AUW Sunday, on
the theme:   "Choice Makes Us Human: Reproductive Rights and Faith." 
Featuring AUW Seminarian for Choice Kelli Clement and Meridith
Schonfeld-Hicks, Clara Barton Intern.
 
 
 Registration begins Monday January 8 and ends Monday February 8.  
March 24 - 27 -  SEAT, Washington, DC 
Sexuality Education Advocacy Training is held in Washington DC for youth
and youth allies through a collaboration between Unitarian Universalist
Association, the United Church of Christ and Advocates for Youth.
Questions? Email: Meridith Schonfeld-Hicks mschonfeldhicks [at] uua.org or
Jody Beresford Spice777 [at] aol.com  Scholarships available.
 
 
Friday, March 2nd - Film - Discussion of Award winning film ?The
Education of Shelby Knox?  First Universalist Church;  all ages invited;
refreshments served.   FFI:  Cathy Apostle-caquilt51 [at] aol.com
 
 
March -TBA                          Events honoring National Women?s
Month 
 
 
April 18 -        Reproductive Choice Lobby Day ? plan now to join
progressive religious voices at the State Capitol .
 
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