FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: HELP me decide

[Marcy Leussler (mleussler]

I think that this would be a great event - very interesting. I certainly would 
would attend an event like this.

Marcy

> From: carolkoepp [at] comcast.net
> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:53:52 -0600
> Subject: [sa-talk] HELP me decide
> CC: FUSsa-talk [at] muusja.org
> To: mleussler [at] hotmail.com
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> 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 you’re working on it. April 21st would work perfectly, and with my 
> current schedule in fact is the only evening slot that would work, since I’m 
> 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 they’re 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 
> who’s going to coordinate for them is Dick Bernard dick_bernard [at] msn.com  
>  
> 
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> In terms of expenses, I’d 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 can’t I’d 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, wouldn’t hurt to know 
> that, because that would let me spend an extra day in Minneapolis]
> 
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> 
> Look forward to being in touch. I’m around today if you have any more 
> questions.
> 
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> 
> Paul Loeb
> 3232 41st Ave SW
> 
> Seattle, WA 98116
> 206 935-9132 Cell 206 240-5903
> 
> Paul [at] paulloeb.org
> 
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> 
> 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?
> 
> It’s 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
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve 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 I’m working to set 
> up when I come through Minneapolis April 21st (I’m 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.  I’ve 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 “a drunken party girl” to 
> creating and running a major campus sustainability effort at Virginia Tech.  
> I’d talk about Rich Cizik’s powerful work with the evangelical community, and 
> Obama’s buried political genesis as a student activist. I’ve completely 
> revised the chapter on political burnout, exploring how citizen activists can 
> keep on despite their disappointments. I’d love to come in to speak when the 
> book comes out to talk about what citizen involvement means in the current 
> time. 
> 
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> 
> As you know, the talks and interviews I’ve 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 
> Association’s 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 provosts’ 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 it’s 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 
> 
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> 
> Thanks for all you do. I'll look forward to being in touch.
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> Paul Loeb
> 
> 3232 41st Ave SW
> 
> Seattle, WA 98116
> 
> 206 935-9132 phone or fax
> paul [at] paulloeb.org
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve attached comments on my talks and on the books, and a summary of Soul’s 
> new edition. I’d also be delighted to send an advance electronic exam copy, 
> or a Xeroxed copy of the final clean manuscript.
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