FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: items re: Nside - from last Sunday's SAC meeting

[Barbara Weatherhead (bweatherhead]

I would also like to participate in the bus tour on April 28.

Barbara Weatherhead
bweatherhead [at] mn.rr.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: jojane [at] juno.com [mailto:jojane [at] juno.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 9:57 AM
To: Barb Weatherhead
Subject: Re: [sa-talk] items re: Nside - from last Sunday's SAC meeting

OK, I'm starting a bus-tour list, and we can put something in the March
newsletter - 
so far it's:
Kendyl
Jo
Carol Koepp
Adele Hansen


Keep those email RSVPs coming....
Jo



On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:23:41 -0600 Adele Hansen <hanse002 [at] tc.umn.edu>
writes:
> I'd like to go on the bus tour.  I can't make the meetings this year. 
> 
> I already get action alerts from the Peace Foundation.
> 
> Adele
> 
> 
> 
> >Hi, all - 
> >Re: a couple of items that came up in our SAC meeting, about our 
> goal to
> >work on racial justice & economic opportunity, with a focus on the
> >Northside (since FUS is a near neighbor of the Nside). We have some 
> new
> >opportunities to shift into a little higher gear on this, because 
> PEACE
> >Foundation has some new funding, staff, focus, and strategy - and 
> they
> >are on the move! 
> >- Jo
> >
> >1.  See note from Kendyl, below;  - how many SAC folks are 
> interested in
> >going together on April 28th for a tour of the Northside?  From 
> PEACE
> >Foundation information:  "Northside Community Tours - driving tour
> >focusing on the assets and challenges in North Minneapolis, led by
> >Council Member Don Samuels."     I plan to go.
> >
> >
> >2.  At the SAC meeting, info was handed out re: a recent monthly 
> PEACE
> >Foundation meeting.  They are holding monthly meetings, called 
> Movement
> >Forums: "monthly relationship-building and strategic planning 
> sessions
> >for Northside leaders and geographic ally group leadership".  (the 
> word
> >"leader" here should not intimidate anyone, they mean people who 
> are
> >willing to make a level of commitment, take a level of 
> responsibility, in
> >addressing issues in the community, along with others who are 
> similarly
> >motivated.  Kendyl and several SAC members have already done so, 
> for some
> >time, and we have a chance to take our FUS-Northside relationships 
> & work
> >to a new level and join with this very exciting organizing 
> effort...)
> >
> >The PEACE Foundation has identified key issues and events for 2007, 
> and
> >they are asking for allies who will join the strategy discussions 
> and
> >activism.  They are working on policy reform during the legislative
> >session - see info at  www.citypeace.org.
> >
> >They have a program of signing up blocks of people - from 
> congregations
> >and other groups - to receive email action alerts as a group, so 
> people
> >can work together as a sort of affinity group - people who are 
> already in
> >relationship with one another, and could work together to help 
> make
> >things happen.  This is something SAC folks and others from FUS who 
> may
> >be interested, might consider doing.
> >
> >The next PEACE Foundation monthly Movement Forum meeting is the 
> evening
> >of February 22nd.  This will be more a cultural celebration than a
> >meeting   -  for Black History Month   -  to be held at Central 
> High
> >School, Green Gym/Auditorium (corner of 35th Street & 4th Avenue 
> South).
> >I'm planning to go - let me know if you are interested.
> >
> >Also at the SAC meeting on Sunday, there was discussion about SAC & 
> other
> >interested FUS folks gathering for some reflection in between 
> PEACE
> >Foundation meetings.  This would be a way to discuss things like - 
> what
> >does it mean to be an ally?  Should we start with reflecting some 
> on the
> >issue of humility - (since we are a mostly white congregation with 
> people
> >from all over the metro area - including the Nside -  wanting to 
> take
> >more steps toward partnership on the issues facing African 
> Americans,
> >lower-income folks, and others living on the Northside....).  
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Forwarded Message -----
> >From: "Jo Haberman" <jo [at] metrostability.org>
> >To: <jojane [at] juno.com>
> >Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:48:36 -0600
> >Subject: send to SAC with background info
> >Message-ID: 
> <20070131214631.4166F53BD85 [at] mpls-qmqp-02.inet.qwest.net>
> >
> >
> >
> >Dear Jo,
> >
> >I heard back from Michelle Martin at the Peace Foundation about 
> the
> >Northside tour.  She says they can take up to 15 of us on the April 
> 28
> >tour.  My thought is that if we have more than that who want to go, 
> we
> >can look ahead to the May trip as well.  Can we get this out to the 
> SA
> >list now, so people begin to save the date on their calendars?  I 
> really
> >think it will be a great experience to have together.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Kendyl
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