FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: HELP me decide

[MADELINE SIMON (madeline-mpls]

Hi All,

 

As to helping with publicity, I can post this to MAP's Action Tool homepage.  
It would be on the website for visitors to see and would also mail out a 
message to all 73+ MAP member organizations.

 

I also heard from Dick Bernard that the FUS event is booked.  To help save time 
and costs, Paul Loeb has asked if their might be a volunteer driver to pick him 
up at the airport and bring him to FUS on April 21.  I'm just 9 minutes from 
the airport and can pick him up on my way to FUS.  


Peace,
Madeline
 

> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:56:41 +0000
> From: carolkoepp [at] comcast.net
> Subject: Re: [sa-talk] HELP me decide
> CC: wmccaa [at] yahoo.com; tinch [at] comcast.net; barbweather [at] 
> comcast.net; mgg [at] firstunitariansociety.org; FUSsa-talk [at] muusja.org
> To: madeline-mpls [at] msn.com
> 
> 
> 
> We're booked.  He even has a local public awareness (think public relations) 
> person that we will work with.  He has contacts at many media outlets.  Our 
> major responsibility will be to promote in UU congregations and with DCEH. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "katy ghiasi" <katyghiasi [at] yahoo.com> 
> To: hanse002 [at] umn.edu, "Carol Koepp" <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net> 
> Cc: "Wanda McCaa" <wmccaa [at] yahoo.com>, "social action talk" <FUSsa-talk 
> [at] muusja.org>, "Sue Tincher" <tinch [at] comcast.net>, "Barbara 
> Weatherhead" <barbweather [at] comcast.net>, "MARK GIBBONS" <mgg [at] 
> firstunitariansociety.org> 
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 7:18:04 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
> Subject: Re: HELP me decide 
> 
> Dear Carol 
> Sorry  for getting back to you late. I am out of town for the next 3 weeks 
> and just checked my e- mail. 
> It is a great topic and a very good opportunity to have Paul Loeb to speak on 
> Wed .night. 
> I agree with Adel that we should just publicize the program to the larger 
> group.We can have cookies, coffee and tea in the hall way up- stairs for 
> people who are coming just for program. 
> Thank you so much, 
> Katy, 
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Carol Koepp <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net> wrote: 
> 
> From: Carol Koepp <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net> 
> Subject: Re: HELP me decide 
> To: hanse002 [at] umn.edu 
> Cc: "Wanda McCaa" <wmccaa [at] yahoo.com>, "wendy jerome" <jerome013 [at] 
> gmail.com>, "wendy 
>  darling" <wendydarling3 [at] gmail.com>, "Katy Ghiasi" <katyghiasi [at] 
> yahoo.com>, "social action talk" <FUSsa-talk [at] muusja.org> 
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 3:11 PM 
> 
> I agree.  We should just open it up to public from 7:00 on.  It sounds like 
> we could get some help from St. Joans for publicizing it too. 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <hanse002 [at] umn.edu> 
> To: "Carol Koepp" <carolkoepp [at] comcast.net> 
> Cc: "Wanda McCaa" <wmccaa [at] yahoo.com>; "wendy jerome" <jerome013 [at] 
> gmail.com>; "wendy darling" <wendydarling3 [at] gmail.com>; "Katy Ghiasi" 
> <katyghiasi [at] yahoo.com>; "social action talk" <FUSsa-talk [at] 
> muusja.org> 
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 1:56 PM 
> Subject: Re: HELP me decide 
> 
> 
> 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 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 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>   
> > 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] 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Look forward to being in touch. I’m 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? 
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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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