FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Re: Social Action Comm. plans for 9/16 - please vote

[Adele Hansen (hanse002]

I was at the meeting, and i vote yes.

Adele


> Dear FUS Social Action folks,
>
> Last night the executive planning committee of our Social Action 
> Committee discussed plans for September.  We had to get specific 
> because we have an Aug. 10th deadline for the newsletter; plans have 
> to be in place.  We discussed plans for a Forum, Social Justice 
> collection and lunch on 9/16.  The theme is "Peace" and the date is 
> important because it is close to the U.N. Day of Peace.  Below are 
> the notes from the mtg. so you can see what we are considering. 
> Please give us feedback regarding the speakers at the forum, the 
> plans for the lunch and the receipient of the collection. 
> Thanks__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> "We began by talking to Madeline (Simon) about Sept 16. She will 
> work on the newsletter submission. We talked about how we could get 
> people to take action that day at the table: postcards and letters, 
> actions including the Declaration of Peace pledge. We need to get 
> people working on talking to their congress people THIS week because 
> they are voting on war funding soon. Madeline will come up with 
> stuff for that day.
>
> We talked about who we should have speak at the forum and who we 
> should give the SA collection to. We talked about Military Families 
> Speak Out.
>
> There is a meeting with Teresa West and the Membership committee on 
> July 25 at Sabastien Joe's. Marcia will be in touch with Teresa and 
> see about the lunch. We will have the Peace Foundation get the 
> collection but give the luncheon proceeds to The Military Families 
> group."
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