FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Social Action Comm. plans for 9/16 - please vote

[Carol Koepp (carolkoepp]

I was also at the mtg. and so vote YES to Military Families Speak Out for 
the Forum;YES to them getting the luncheon porceeds and YES to SJ collection 
for the PEACE Foundation
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jojane [at] juno.com>
To: "Carol Koepp" <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: [sa-talk] Social Action Comm. plans for 9/16 - please vote


> I was at the meeting, but here are my votes:
>
> YES to asking Military Families Speak Out for the Forum - and YES to them
> getting the luncheon proceeds.
> YES to Peace Foundation getting the SJ collection (this was the
> suggestion at the April 29th SAC annual retreat, so that's not a
> change....).
>
> I can help bring food for the luncheon - the plan is for SAC to work with
> Mark and bring/make PEACE PASTA salads, and other salads.....
> Jo
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:25:56 -0500 "Carol Koepp" <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net>
> writes:
> > Dear FUS Social Action folks,
> >
> > Last night the executive planning committee of our Social Action
> > Committee discussed plans for September.  We had to get specific
> > because we have an Aug. 10th deadline for the newsletter; plans have
> > to be in place.  We discussed plans for a Forum, Social Justice
> > collection and lunch on 9/16.  The theme is "Peace" and the date is
> > important because it is close to the U.N. Day of Peace.  Below are
> > the notes from the mtg. so you can see what we are considering.
> > Please give us feedback regarding the speakers at the forum, the
> > plans for the lunch and the receipient of the collection.
> Thanks___________________________________________________________________
> _______________________________________
> > "We began by talking to Madeline (Simon) about Sept 16. She will
> > work on the newsletter submission. We talked about how we could get
> > people to take action that day at the table: postcards and letters,
> > actions including the Declaration of Peace pledge. We need to get
> > people working on talking to their congress people THIS week because
> > they are voting on war funding soon. Madeline will come up with
> > stuff for that day.
> >
> > We talked about who we should have speak at the forum and who we
> > should give the SA collection to. We talked about Military Families
> > Speak Out.
> >
> > There is a meeting with Teresa West and the Membership committee on
> > July 25 at Sabastien Joe's. Marcia will be in touch with Teresa and
> > see about the lunch. We will have the Peace Foundation get the
> > collection but give the luncheon proceeds to The Military Families
> > group."
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