FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: HELP me decide

[Carol Koepp (carolkoepp]

Thank you VERY much, Madeline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MADELINE SIMON 
  To: Carol Koepp 
  Cc: wmccaa [at] yahoo.com ; Jim & Susan Tincher ; Barbara Weatherhead ; mgg 
[at] firstunitariansociety.org ; FUS Social Action 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:53 PM
  Subject: RE: [sa-talk] HELP me decide


  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
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  > 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. 
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  > ----- 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 
  > 
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  > 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. 
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  > > Your thoughts?? 
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  > > 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 
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  > > 
  > > 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 
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  > > Thanks 
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  > > 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? 
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  > > 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. 
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  > > 
  > > 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. 
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  > > 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 
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  > > 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? 
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  > > 
  > > 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.? 
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  > > Carol Koepp 
  > > 
  > > Social Justice Coordinator 
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  > > 952-893-2383 (h) 
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  > > 612-377-6608 (o) 
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  > > ----- 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 
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  > > 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. 
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  > > 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). 
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  > > 
  > > 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. 
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  > > 
  > > 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 
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  > > 
  > > 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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