Muusja Mailing List: January 12 Event Update (MLK event, UU EcoMinds gathering)

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MUUSJA  E-EVENT UPDATE JANUARY  12, 2006 

Metro UU  Social Justice Alliance--Bringing together 
UUs to work  collectively for social change. 
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This update  includes announcements about: 
A. UU Events   
B. Community  Events  
C. UUA  Advocacy 
D.  Addendum 
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A. UPCOMING UU  EVENTS  
1. 
THURSDAY, JAN  19, 2006 
7:00 to 9:00  PM 
UU ECOMINDS  MEETING 
This quarterly meeting will focus on upcoming actions related  to its key 
campaigns: (1) Door knocking events to educate, advocate for  RES in key 
legislative areas; (2) Launching a congregation based energy  conservation 
effort; (3) 
How congregations can respond to the UUA Study  Action Issue on Global 
Warming. 
White Bear  Lake  UU Church   
328 Maple  Street 
Mahtomedi,  MN 
http://www.whitebearunitarian.org/ 
Contact  Co-chairs Madalyn Ciocci at mcioci [at] earthlink.net, 
or Chris Burda  at cburda [at] earthlink.net. 
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2. 
JAN 10-FEB 2:   
OUTSTATE  TRAININGS FOR COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS. Help spread the word to friends, 
family  in greater Minnesota. Training  dates and venues are listed at the 
end of this E Update.   
FFI: See list  of venues at the end of this email.  
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3. 
SUNDAY,  JANUARY 22 
3:00 to 5:00  PM 
MUUSJA  QUARTERLY MEETING. “UUs AT THE LEGISLATURE--  
“MAKING OUR VOICE HEARD” with Ann DeGroot, Director, OutFront  Minnesota, 
and Julie Risser, Energy Lobbyist, League  of Women Voters. Bring YOUR voice to 
the legislature to help UU  EcoMinds  promote passage of a MN Renewable Energy 
Standard and UUs Out For Marriage head off a  constitutional ban on same sex 
marriage. Our meeting also  includes a tribute to UU Affordable Housing 
Partnership--for five years of amazing work--MUUSJA updates, and  fellowship 
with UU 
justice makers. Refreshments included. Please bring  finger foods to share! 
First  Universalist Church Chalice Room 
3400 Dupont  Avenue South,  Minneapolis 
FFI: Betsy  Allis at erallis [at] aol.com 
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FRIDAY,  JANUARY 27 
6:30 PM  New  Orleans  Dinner 
8:00 PM  Program and Jazz Concert 
KATRINA FAMILY  BENEFIT, co-sponsored by UU Affordable Housing Partnership 
and  Oasis  Crisis  Intervention  Center, includes a  dinner, program that 
includes stories from Katrina families in  Minnesota, and a jazz  concert! Your 
$25 
contribution will help pay rent for Katrina families in  Minnesota.   
First  Unitarian Society  
900 Mt. Curve  Avenue,  Minneapolis 
FFI: Carol  Koepp at ckoepp [at] mn.rr.com 
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5. 
MONDAY,  JANUARY 30 
6:30 to 8:30  PM 
PEOPLE OF  FAITH ROUNDTABLE (a partner of UUs Out For Marriage) 
Communities  and people of faith are working together to create a powerful 
and unified  movement for GLBT rights. Your help is needed!  
First  Unitarian Society 
900 Mt Curve,  Minneapolis. 
FFI:   
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6. 
MONDAY, FEB 6   
7 to 9  PM 
UU'S OUT FOR  MARRIAGE (UUO4M) MONTHLY MEETING. UUO4M, a new MUUSJA working 
group, is  organizing UUs statewide to convince legislators to vote against the 
 anti-marriage constitutional amendment and keep it off the ballot in 2006.   
Unity-Unitarian  Church 
732  Holly Ave,  St.  Paul.   
FFI:  Contact Ralph Wyman, _ralph-longfellow [at] earthlink.net_ 
(mailto:ralph-longfellow [at] earthlink.net)  
or  Carole or Peter Lawson, twolawsons [at] comcast.net. 
 

B.  COMMUNITY EVENTS 
1.   
FRIDAY, JAN 13 
6:00  PM 
FREE  FILM THE LANDLESS: ON THE PATHS OF  AMERICA,   
a  documentary about Brazil's  landless movement. 
Resource  Center  of the Americas,  3019 Minnehaha, Mpls.   
FFI: _www.americas.org_ (http://www.americas.org/)  
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2.  
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 
10:30  AM 
DISCUSS WAYS TO COUNTER MILITARISM IN SCHOOLS and find  alternatives  
to military service. Sponsored by coalition of organizations,   
including Veterans for Peace, Religious Society of Friends,   
Every  Church a Peace  Church,  and other groups.  
Twin Cities Friends Meeting  House 
1725  Grand Avenue,  St.  Paul 
FFI: WAMM at 612-827-5364.

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3.  
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14 
1:00  PM   
MARTIN  LUTHER KING PROGRAM "IRAQ,  NEW  ORLEANS  AND THE TWIN  CITIES:   
THE  STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR AND RACISM TODAY." Speakers  include  
Rose Brewer of Black Radical Congress; Alice O. Lynch, Dir of  Black,  
Indian, Hispanic and Asian Women in Action, nat’l board  member of WAND  
(Women's Action for New Directions) and MN State Rep Keith  Ellison.  
Sponsored  by Iraq  Peace Action Coalition and WAMM.  
Sabathani  Community  Center 
310  East 38th Street South,  Minneapolis 
FFI: WAMM at 612-827-5364. 
 

4. 
MONDAY,  JANUARY 16,  
6:30  P.M.   
FILM  "WAL-MART THE HIGH COST OF LOW PRICE" Discussion follows.   
Takes  you behind the glitz and into the real lives of workers and   
their  families, business owners and their communities, in an   
extraordinary  journey that will challenge the way you think, feel, and shop. 
  
St.  Joan of Arc  Church,  Hospitality Hall 
4537  Third Avenue S,  Minneapolis.  
Parking  is close, free and easy. 
FFI:  WAMM at 612-827-5364. 
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5. 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18 
7:00  to 9:00 PM  
FAM TRAINING: FAMILIES ALL  MATTER BOOK PROJECT.  
Training for teachers, parents, RE staff/volunteers   
and  others includes  ways to implement the FAM book project,   
a demonstration of a classroom session, and reader materials.   
FAM is a project of aMaze, a non-profit group that champions  safety  
and belonging for all children and families. Adaptable for  many settings, 
First  Universalist  Church   
3400  Dupont Ave South,  Minneapolis 
FFI: 612.724.4323 or _info [at] amazeworks.org_ (mailto:info [at] 
amazeworks.org) .   
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6. 
THURSDAY,  JANUARY 19 
7:00  – 9:00 P.M.

THIRD  THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM: SHOULD THE  
UN  TRY TO BUILD STATES? Speaker: MICHAEL BARNETT, Holder   
of  the Harold Stassen Chair of International Relations at the Humphrey   
Institute  of Public  affairs,  formerly of the U.  of Wisconsin,  
Macalester  College,  Wellesley  College  and the Hebrew University of 
Jerusalem. He’s written six books  and many articles and is the  
winner  of two major prizes for his scholarship. He’s on the board of   
the  Academic Council on the United Nations System.

Hennepin  Avenue  United Methodist  Church 
511  Groveland Ave,  Minneapolis 
Free  parking in church parking lot
Free and open to the public
FFI:  Joe Schwartzberg, _schwa004 [at] umn.edu_ (mailto:schwa004 [at] umn.edu)  

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7.
TUESDAY,  JANUARY 24
7:00  to 9:00 PM 
AN EVENING OF CONVERSATION AND ACTION: HEALTH CARE  FOR 
HEALTH CARE WORKERS ACTION FORUM. Twin Cities Religion   
and  Labor Network and Service Employees International  Union   
Local 113 are supporting efforts y low-wage and  immigrant 
health care workers organize at metro hospitals  to 
win more affordable health care benefits for  themselves 
and their families. Their struggle is our struggle, as all  of 
us deal with rising health care costs and seek to fix a  system  
that is fundamentally broken. Workers will join us to tell  their  
stories and to talk about what this means in terms of the  larger  
issue of health care reform.  You'll have an opportunity  to take  
concrete actions to stand in solidarity with these and other  workers  
who find that health care is out of reach, and we'll talk  together  
about how to organize with the workers over the long haul.

FFI:  Matt Gladue at 612-332-2055, or gladuem [at] tcrln.org

8. 
JANUARY 27 to MARCH 
UPCOMING  AFFORDABLE/SUSTAINABLE HOUSING SERIES AT THE  WEISMAN  ART  MUSEUM

8a.  
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27  
7:30  to 10:30 PM 
OPENING PREVIEW THE EXHIBITION "THE HOME HOUSE PROJECT:   
The Future of Affordable Housing."  $10.00 public, $5.00  member
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8b. 
SUNDAY,  JANUARY 29
2:00  to 3:30 PM
THE HOME HOUSE PROJECT: HOW A MUSEUM CAN INITIATE  CHANGE
David J. Brown, the HOME House Project Director, Sr  Curator at  
SECCA, describes this multi-year project. Remarks by Thomas  Fisher,  
Dean,  U of M College  of Architecture,  and Thomas Fulton, President,  
Family Housing Fund follow. 

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9. 
JANUARY, JANUARY 29,  
2:00  to 4:00 PM 
1:30 PM Orientation  
LEGACY '06 KICKOFF MEETING 
Find out what's in store for the Minnesota House in 2006   
and hear how Progressives have changed the debate.   _Join_ 
(http://mnlegacyproject.org/join.htm)  a team   
of skilled volunteers and help grow our membership and our  clout!  
The 2006 election will be one of the most important in state  history. Help 
reinstate policies related to education, health care,  and environmental 
protection that serve the common good. Many  volunteer opportunities! 
Faith  Mennonite  Church   
2720  East 22nd Street,  Minneapolis 
FFI: Contact Heather at 612.822.3322 or _mnlegacyproject [at] yahoo.com_ 
(mailto:mnlegacyproject [at] yahoo.com)      
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C.  UUA ADVOCACY 
1.   
ALITO  CONFIRMATION **TAKE  ACTION**
Please ask your Senators to vote against the confirmation of  Judge Samuel 
Alito Jr. Call and leave a message for the relevant staff  person (it makes an 
impact!) by calling the Capitol Switchboard at  202.224.3121. Or send an email 
or fax. FFI:  http://www.uua.org/news/2005/051212_alito/index.html or
_www.supremecourtwatch.org_ (http://www.supremecourtwatch.org/) .   
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2.   
DOMESTIC  SPYING

On  Wednesday, December 21, the ACLU released FBI documents obtained through  
Freedom of Information Act requests that confirm that the FBI is using its  
counterterrorism resources to monitor and infiltrate peaceful activist  groups 
such as … Greenpeace and United for Peace and Justice. It is now  clear that 
the
FBI has expanded its definition of "domestic terrorism"  to include
citizens and groups that participate in lawful protests or  civil
disobedience.

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3. 
FEDERAL  BUDGET

Budgets are moral documents that reflect what we care about.  The latest 
budget cuts spending by less than one-half of 1% over the next  five years, 
with 
the poor bearing the burden of the cuts.   
Make your voice known! For coverage of UU  ministers getting arrested to 
protest the immoral budget:  
http://www.uua.org/news/2005/051214_budget/index.html.

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D.  ADDENDUM 
OUTSTATE  TRAININGS RE CIVIL MARRIAGE ADVOCACY.  
Help spread  the word about trainings to friends, family in greater  
Minnesota. Details  at OutFront  Minnesota 
_https://www.outfront.org/events/trainings.html_ 
(https://www.outfront.org/events/trainings.html)   
January 10.  Fargo,  ND. UU  Church of  Fargo-Moorhead,  121 S 9th  Street.  
6:30-9  pm.  701.235.0394. 
January 11.  Bemidji. Bemidji  State University, Crying Wolf Rm, Hobson 
Memorial Union, 1500 Birchmont  Drive NE. 6:30-9 pm. 218.755.-2001. 

January 12.  Hibbing. Androy, 502  East Howard St. 6:30-9 pm.

January 13.  International  Falls. North Woods  Coffee Roaster, 444 Third  
Street.  6:30-9  pm.  218.283.8316.

January 18.  St.  Cloud.  University  Lutheran  Church of the  Epiphany, 390 
4th Avenue  S.  6:30-9  pm.  320.252.6183.
January 24.  Willmar.  Willmar Senior  Citizen Community Ctr, Sunshine Rm, 
624 NE Hwy 71. 6:30-9  pm.  320.235.0711.    
January  25. Marshall.  Southwest  MN  State  University,  Conference Ctr, 
1501 State St. 6:30-9 pm. 800.642.0684.   
February  1. Winona.  Winona  State  University,  Maxwell Leadership 
Conference Ctr, corner of Sanborn  (8th  Street)  and Johnson Streets. 7-9 pm. 
507.457.2963.   
February  2. Red Wing. St.  Paul's  Lutheran  Church,  320  West Avenue.  
6:30-9  pm.  651.388.7106