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Re: HELP me decide
From: hanse002 (hanse002umn.edu)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:56:58 -0800 (PST)
This sounds great as a program, but we would really want to publicize it (and perhaps not publicize the Eat n Meet unless we want to add to the work of the kitchen staff and set up crew.)I'm all for having it! 

Adele


On Jan 18 2010, Carol Koepp wrote:
Dear Eat 'n' Meet committee, Below is a long series of emails from Paul Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen, who wants to do an event (talk and book signing) at FUS. I shared it with Phil Duran (Summer Assemblies) before I realized he was being very specific, wanting April 21. Phil thinks it looks great. I sent the first contact email to Katy too, but haven't heard anything, I think she is on a ski trip.
ANYWAY, what do you think of scheduling him for for April 21 which is an Eat 'n' Meet Wednesday? I checked the FUS calendar and just the usual things are in the bldg., i.e., choir in lower assembly, so we could schedule an evening event in the upper assembly. Intended audience would be FUS not in choir and other UUs in the metro area and DCEH members.
He's also suggesting May 11, but that is a Tues. and the day before our annual meeting - not good, I'm thinking. 

Your thoughts??

Carol
----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Loeb To: carolkoepp [at] comcast.net Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 5:19 PM Subject: PS--if you want to look at both April 21 and the evening of May 11 that would be great
Still playing with the option of spending an extra day in Twin Cities which would mean shifting to May 11. So if you can check both dates I can then decide 


Thanks

PL
From: Paul Loeb [mailto:loeb [at] soulofacitizen.org] Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 12:38 PM 
To: 'carolkoepp [at] comcast.net'
Subject: RE: I have a new edition of Soul of a Citizen. Would Mount Curve want to host a talk as you did in 2004 with The Impossible Will Take a Little While?
Delighted youâre working on it. April 21st would work perfectly, and with my current schedule in fact is the only evening slot that would work, since Iâm only in Minneapolis for an evening and a day, although I have toyed with shifting the city a bit later to open up more space, adjacent to a May 9-10 Atlanta trip or an additional May 21-22 Chicago trip to do their Green Festival.
I think I mentioned it, but I actually have a good team of local Minneapolis people from different peace and justice groups who did an excellent date at St Joan of Arc in 2007 (about 150 people, roughly the same as my talk for you folks last time). And theyâre willing to work on getting people there again, whether at Mount Curve or Joan of Arc or (or maybe University Bookstore, which is also interested). So they would help in publicizing it. The contact whoâs going to coordinate for them is Dick Bernard dick_bernard [at] msn.com
In terms of expenses, Iâd love to get a little bit to help cover my air fare, but the groups that brought me in last time might come up with it, and if they canât Iâd do it anyway. So that would be a total honor system. If you could come up with $100-200 that would be great. If not, no problem, so long as you folks were willing to pass the word as much as possible in all your peace and justice networks, both inside the congregation and outside.
So check back with your committees and let me know if the 21st would work. [And if you think those other dates could also work, wouldnât hurt to know that, because that would let me spend an extra day in Minneapolis]
Look forward to being in touch. Iâm around today if you have any more questions. 



Paul Loeb
3232 41st Ave SW

Seattle, WA 98116
206 935-9132 Cell 206 240-5903

Paul [at] paulloeb.org
From: carolkoepp [at] comcast.net [mailto:carolkoepp [at] comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 10:58 AM 
To: Paul Loeb
Subject: Re: I have a new edition of Soul of a Citizen. Would Mount Curve want to host a talk as you did in 2004 with The Impossible Will Take a Little While?
Paul - I'm also checking with the social action committee. We have all our programming done for the balance of the program year, but this may be worth an evening event. Would there be expenses for us? April 21st is a Wed. so it could work out well to schedule your talk after one of our Wed. eve. dinners. Are you already lined up for the 21st.? 



Carol Koepp

Social Justice Coordinator

952-893-2383 (h)

612-377-6608 (o)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Loeb" <loeb [at] soulofacitizen.org>
To: membership [at] firstunitariansociety.org, minister [at] firstunitariansociety.org, sac [at] firstunitariansociety.org 
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 11:17:50 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: I have a new edition of Soul of a Citizen. Would Mount Curve want to host a talk as you did in 2004 with The Impossible Will Take a Little While?
Itâs been a while since I spoke at Mount Curve in 2004, when Diana Allen set up a talk, co-sponsored with Wellstone Action helped cosponsor the lovely event at Mount Curve Unitarian when The Impossible Will Take a Little While came out in 2004. The Impossible ended up being named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association, won the Nautilus Award for best social change book, and keeps on selling with 70,000 copies in print
Iâve now spent the past year on a wholly revised edition of my Soul of a Citizen book on citizen involvement, whose earlier edition has 100,000 copies in print. The new edition comes out March 30. People are finding it really powerful, and I thought you might be able to host a talk Iâm working to set up when I come through Minneapolis April 21st (Iâm also approaching St Joan of Arc, where I had a lovely event in 2007).
My talks build off the new edition to tell some amazing new stories and also explore the current political time, with its mix of opportunity and challenges, disappointment and hope, and the key need for citizens to act to help move things forward as they did during the election. I focus particularly around what citizen activism means under Obama, and how to get past demoralization. Iâve gotten powerful responses and would love to do another event.
The updated Soul includes some powerful new stories placed in the context of our new political landscape, with its mix of opportunity and challenges. I have some great new profiles, like the story of Angie DeSoto that leads off the Village Politics chapter. She goes from being âa drunken party girlâ to creating and running a major campus sustainability effort at Virginia Tech. Iâd talk about Rich Cizikâs powerful work with the evangelical community, and Obamaâs buried political genesis as a student activist. Iâve completely revised the chapter on political burnout, exploring how citizen activists can keep on despite their disappointments. Iâd love to come in to speak when the book comes out to talk about what citizen involvement means in the current time.
As you know, the talks and interviews Iâve been giving are based on thirty-five years of my work examining the psychology of social involvement. They explore how ordinary citizens can make their voices heard and actions count in a time when we're told neither matter. They examine how people get involved in larger community issues and what stops them from getting involved; how they burn out in exhaustion or maintain their commitment for the long haul; what we need to learn from the citizen movements of the past; how involvement can give a sense of connection and purpose rare in purely personal life. My recent talks have also woven in themes from The Impossible and from my Campus Election Engagement Project, where I helped colleges and universities engage students in 15 key states (our final grants paid for posters encouraging same day registration that went out to every community college in Minnesota, including the tribal colleges).
Between Soul of a Citizen, The Impossible Will Take a Little While, and my earlier Generation at the Crossroads, Nuclear Culture and Hope in Hard Times books, I've been a keynoter or featured speaker at numerous national conferences, including one keynote and two featured talks at the Unitarian General Assembly, the American Society on Aging, the American Bar Associationâs Equal Justice conference (where I got a standing ovation closing their national conference), National Education Association, Education Commission of the States, American College Personnel Association, National Youth Leadership Council, National Student Coalition on Hunger and Homelessness, major environmental conferences, the corporate meeting of Patagonia corporation, the national hunger action group Results, and educational gatherings of college presidents, provosts and Deans. My talk at the annual provostsâ gathering of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities led to their establishing the 200-campus American Democracy Project.
You know my work well, but in case itâs useful, I'm enclosing some lists of comments on my lectures and books, as well as a bio. You can also get more info from the Website, www.paulloeb.org 



Thanks for all you do. I'll look forward to being in touch.







Paul Loeb

3232 41st Ave SW

Seattle, WA 98116

206 935-9132 phone or fax
paul [at] paulloeb.org
Iâve attached comments on my talks and on the books, and a summary of Soulâs new edition. Iâd also be delighted to send an advance electronic exam copy, or a Xeroxed copy of the final clean manuscript.

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