Muusja Mailing List: MUUSJA E-EVENT UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 16, 2006

[Lauren Culbert (lculbert]

MUUSJA E-EVENT UPDATE NOVEMBER 16, 2006
 
Minnesota UU Social  Justice Alliance--Bringing  together UUs to work
collectively for social change.
 
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This  update includes announcements about: 

A. Local Social Justice News
B. National UU Advocacy
C. Social Justice Links

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A. LOCAL SOCIAL JUSTICE NEWS

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1.
FRI, NOV 17 THROUGH SUN, NOV 19
MINNEAPOLIS HILTON HOTEL
1001 MARQUETTE AVE, MINNEAPOLIS
"UNITED IN MISSION" 

ATTEND THE MINNESOTA RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE BREAKFAST
EVENT OR REGISTER FOR THE WHOLE PLANNED PARENTHOOD CONFERENCE.  We know that
we don't need to tell you what a critical time it is for everyone to hear
from clergy and faith leaders who support healthy sexuality and reproductive
healthcare for all! The rallying cry of "these doors stay open!" at women's
health clinics across the country, can only be a reality if our progressive
religious and spiritual leaders take a stand, speak out and take back the
true moral high ground.     

That is why Planned Parenthood's conference organizers reached out to RCRC
leaders in Minnesota to help us include clergy voices and clergy leadership
in our upcoming Minneapolis conference. Together we have developed two
important sessions specific to organizing and hearing from clergy and lay
leaders from across the mid-west. 

On Friday morning, November 17th, from 9:45 -11:45am, there will be a Clergy
for Choice Organizing meeting titled "What are the successes and what are
the roadblocks?"

On Saturday morning, November 18th, from 7:30-9 a.m., there will be an
Interfaith Breakfast -"United in Mission".  The Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, an
ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and Executive Director of
the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's Institute for Welcoming Resources,
a national ecumenical collaboration of the Welcoming Church Movement, will
explore ways to reassert the role of clergy leaders in advocating for
healthy sexuality and reproductive healthcare for all. 

Other participants include the Rev. Eily Marlow and the Rev. Marilynn Ford
Smith.
FFI: David Meacham Telephone: (212) 261-4657 E-mail: david.meacham [at] ppfa.org
Registration: http:extranet.ppfa.org

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2.
SAT, NOV 18
WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, MINNEAPOLIS

INGNITING A CULTURE OF LOVE, PEACE, AND JUSTICE is the theme of the Midwest
Conference of Spiritual Progressives. It is sponsored by the Network of
Spiritual Progressives - Minnesota and co-sponsored by about 40 diverse
organizations and congregations.

Progressive panelists in every field--health care, education,
business,environmental protection, and popular culture--will explain how
they are organizing their lives and their institutions to pursue this new
bottom line of spiritual values. This conference will be a celebration of
what we can do together! Details of the conference and registration
information are available on the NSP website at http://www.nspmn.org/ or by
calling 952-476-6126. The registration fee is $45 (lunch included), students
and activists are asked to pay $20, and scholarships are readily available
for anyone who needs one.

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3.
SAT, NOV 18
10:00 AM TO 12:30 PM
MICHAEL SERVETUS UNITARIAN SOCIETY, FRIDLEY For directions, go to
http://www.msuu.org 

TWIN CITIES COHOUSING WORKSHOP Come learn about Cohousing and hear the
latest news on Cohousing in the Twin Cities area! 
In addition to a brief summary on "What's Cohousing" and current activity on
developments in the Twin Cities, there will be smaller-group breakout
sessions including Cohousing and Sustainability, and Elder Cohousing &
Resources for Streamlining Development. There will also be plenty of time
for networking with others who share an interest in creating cohousing,
including discussion with members of at least two newly forming communities.
For more information on the event, go to www.IslandParkMN.com and click on
"News" and then "Grant's Blog". For  questions or if you have information to
share on your own activities, please call 952-926-8554 or send an email to
Malone_CommunitiesConsulting [at] hotmail.com.

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4.
SAT, NOV 18
7:00 TO 9:00 PM
FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY
900 MOUNT CURVE AVENUE, MPLS

THE UNFOLDING UNIVERSE--FINDING DESIGN, lecture by Dr. Lawrence Rudnick,
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Astronomy,
University of Minnesota. You are invited to join us as we celebrate the
Society's 125th anniversary with a free public lecture exploring the
spiritual implications of the latest discoveries in deep space.
  
Responding comments from Rev. Dr. Kendyl Gibbons. Join us at 6:30 for
refreshments. Free and open to the public.
www.firstunitariansociety.org                     612-377-6608

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5.
TUES, NOV 21
NOON 
2104 STEVENS AVENUE, MINNEAPOLIS
CONFERENCE ROOM

INSIGHTS FROM NEPAL brownbag Lunch. Please join Nagendra Budhathoki to hear
about this month's historic agreement between Maoists and one of the world's
oldest monarchies, ecotourism in Nepal, protecting the country's forests and
natural lands, and Nagendra's herbal export business, developed to pay a
fair wage to workers in the Dolpa region of Nepal. 
 
For more information, contact Don Arnosti: darnosti [at] iatp.org, 
612-870-3460. 

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B. NATIONAL UU ADVOCACY

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1. 
Read this special addition of SAC-News on
http://www.uua.org/news/2006/061113_elections.html to learn what UUs from
Charlottesville VA to Bowling Green Kentucky to Madison WI and the UU
Legislative Ministry in CA did to raise our religious values during this
electoral season and to strengthen coalitions supporting these justice
issues.  

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C. SOCIAL JUSTICE LINKS

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To find out about other local and national social justice events, check out
these websites.  

UU SOCIAL JUSTICE AND OTHER UU LINKS:
Unitarian Universalist Association:  http://www.uua.org/

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee:  http://www.uusc.org/

UUA Washington Office for Advocacy http://www.uua.org/uuawo/new/

UUA Congregational Advocacy and Witness:
http://www.uua.org/programs/justice/

Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance (MUUSJA):  http://www.muusja.org/

Prairie Star  District: http://www.psduua.org/

FOR UU SOCIAL ACTON CHAIRS, sign up for regular e-news from the UUA, called
Sac-news www.uua.org/mailman/listinfo
 
UU Ministry for Earth http://uuministryforearth.org/index.shtml

UUs for a Just Economic Community http://www.uujec.net/

UU Committee for Socially Responsible Investing
http://www.uua.org/finance/sri/ 

UU Gulf Coast Advocacy http://www.uua.org/news/gulfcoastrelief/advocacy.html

OTHER SOCIAL JUSTICE LINKS: 
*note: if you are  member of a group who would like us to list your web
site, send it to muusja-editor [at] muusja.org
 
Minnesota  Alliance of Peacemakers  http://www.mapm.org/
 
Women Against Military Madness at  www.worldwidewamm.org
 
Progressive Calendar subscribe by emailing  shove001 [at] tc.umn.edu.
  
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota:   www.ppmns.org
 
NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota:   www.prochoiceminnesota.org

Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing (MICAH):
http://www.micah.org/
 
Code Pink: www.codepink4peace.org

Center for Victims of Torture: http://www.cvt.org/main.php

Network of Spiritual Progressives: http://www.spiritualprogressives.org/

Network of Spiritual Progressives, local chapter http://www.nspmn.org/