Muusja Mailing List: Social Justice E-Update Jan 30, 2008 - Focus the Nation, UNCOUNTED, more...

[Ralph Wyman MUUSJA (rwmuusja]

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---------- MUUSJA E-EVENT UPDATE FOR JANUARY 30, 2008 ----------

 

Minnesota UU Social Justice Alliance--Bringing UUs together to work
collectively for social change.

 

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This  update includes announcements about: 

 

A.  MUUSJA & UU Social Action news:

--1 WED 1/30 7:00 PM  EcoMinds: Live WEBCAST ON CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS 

--2 WED 1/30 6:45 PM  Voter Rights: FILM-UNCOUNTED 

--3 SAT 2/9, 16, 23 & 3/1 10:00 AM  Repro Rights: FAITH & CHOICES 

--4 TUE 2/12 7:00 PM  EcoMinds: STRATEGY SESSION  

--5 WED 2/13 7:15 PM  Repro Rights: Leaders Meeting  

--6 FRI 4/11 1:30 PM  Social Justice Workshop at PSD Conference  

 

B.  Allied Social Action news:

--7 SAT 2/2 10:30 AM  Wilderness Connections Series: REGAINING THE COMMONS  

--8 MON 2/4 1:00 PM  Peak Oil: Matthew Simmons Presentation

--9 WED 2/6 12:45 PM  Grandmothers for Peace: FREE SPEECH FOR SALE

 

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--1  EcoMinds: LIVE WEBCAST ON CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS

WED, JAN 30

7:00 PM   **THIS EVENING**

UNITY CHURCH UNITARIAN

MINNESOTA VALLEY UU FELLOWSHIP

WHITE BEAR UU CHURCH

FIRST UNITARIAN SOCIETY

 

Are you wanting to get more involved in SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE?

Focus the Nation (http://www.focusthenation.org) is asking people nationwide
to attend screenings of a live webcast: "The2% Solution" at 7 pm on January
30th.

Communities of faith are encouraged to host events.  In Minnesota, UU's have
organized multiple screenings! The goal is 10,000 screenings nationwide and
a change in the course of climate change history!

(Note: First Universalist will be joining First Unitarian at 900 Mt. Curve
due to technical issues at 1st Univ).

 

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--2  Voting Rights:  Film-UNCOUNTED: The New Math Of The American Elections

WED, JAN 30

6:45 PM   **THIS EVENING**

RIVERVIEW THEATER

3800 42ND AVENUE SOUTH, MINNEAPOLIS

(E. 38TH STREET AND 42ND AVENUE S)

 

Minnesota theatrical premier of a riveting new documentary on the
vulnerability of U.S. Elections featuring a Q&A with Emmy Award winning
filmmaker, David Earnhardt, after the film. Find out if your vote will count
in 2008 - invite your friends! 

Hosted by the Voting Rights Working Group of MUUSJA & the Association of
Universalist Women (AUW). Co-hosted with Citizens for Election Integrity
Minnesota (http://www.ceimn.org). Doors open at 6:15pm. Film is 80 minutes;
Q&A will follow. FFI: Contact Jennifer Thomas, Jennifer [at] ceimn.org or
612-920-2653.

 

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--3 Reproductive Rights: FAITH AND CHOICES, New Co-Ed group!

Saturdays, 2/9, 16, 23, & 3/1 10 AM to Noon

FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH

3400 DUPONT AVE S, MINNEAPOLIS

 

Faith & Choices provides an opportunity to increase dialogue about morality,
faith, and reproductive choice. The curriculum works with a UU specific
Faith & Choices Action Kit, developed by the Religious Coalition for
Reproductive Choice.  The curriculum helps to bring those resources to life
in the context of group discussion. Participants will gain an understanding
that many religious denominations developed pro-choice position statements
before abortion was legal in the United States.

This 4 session reproductive choice curriculum helps congregation members
have a broader conversation about reproductive choice, helps people clarify
their own beliefs in relation to their faith tradition, and empowers people
to work for reproductive justice.

 

All are welcome, please pre-register by e-mail or phone to Cathy Apostle,

(952)941-0642 or caquilt51 [at] aol.com

 

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--4  EcoMinds: STRATEGY SESSION

TUES, FEB 12 

7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

First Universalist Church

Social Hall

3400 Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis

 

Meet with EcoMinder's from multiple UU congregations as we determine our
strategy for the Legislative session and the remainder of the program year -
taking what we learned about Environmental Justice at the MUUSJA Annual
Meeting and about the 2% solution on Jan 30th (plus our many accumulated
wisdoms!).  Lets plan for success!!!  Contact Ralph at rwmuusja [at] gmail.com 
or
612-998-6624 for more information.

 

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--5  Reproductive Rights/Sacred Choices: LEADERS MEETING

WED, FEB 13 

7:15 p.m. (RSVP for soup dinner offered at 6:30 pm)

First Universalist Church, Library

3400 Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis

 

Reproductive Rights/Sacred Choices meeting to finalize plans for Pro Choice
Lobby Day (Tues Mar 4) and the Lobby Day "Power Up" the night before (Mar 3,
6:30 pm, 1st Univ).  This group practices shared leadership, and is seeking
connections with UUs at more congregations across the metro and state.  All
are welcome to help plan for a successful campaign for choice & for
comprehensive sex ed!

 

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--6 SOCIAL JUSTICE TRAINING

FRI 4/11 

1:30 PM

Prairie Star Dist. Conference

Omaha, NE

 

If you will be going to Omaha for the PSD Annual Conference in April, plan
to arrive by 1:30pm Friday to attend the Social Justice Preconference
Workshop - an exciting skill-building opportunity!

 

INTERFAITH CONGREGATION-BASED COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

Trainer:  Willie Bennett, community organizer, Industrial Areas Foundation.
How can we leverage congregational and community power to bring about
important and needed social change?  Mr. Bennett is the Lead Organizer of
Dallas Area Interfaith.  DAI is an affiliate of the Industrial Areas
Foundation, a 60-year-old network of congregations and community
organizations committed to social justice and the common good.  He has been
with IAF for over 12 years and has worked in cities across the southwest
including Fort Worth and Austin, Texas.

There is no charge for this workshop.

http://www.psduua.org/AnnualConference2008/SocialJusticeWorkshop

 

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B.  Allied Social Justice news:

 

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--7  Regaining the Commons: Video Presentation WHAT A WAY TO GO

SAT FEB 2

10:30 AM-1:00 PM

Merriam Park Library (lower level)

Corner Fairview and Marshall Aves., St. Paul

 

WHAT A WAY TO GO, produced by Tim Bennett http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/

Wilderness Connections is hosting a series of discussions/workshops/actions
on the premise that life as we and our close ancestors have experienced [at
least since the beginning of the 20th Century] may be coming to an end, and
great changes are in store for the world.  How does one prepare for those
changes?  How does one reflect on the reason we have reached this stage, and
how to go on? What can we offer to life on earth from this point in our
existence?

 

We'll be screening the DVD and will have time to discuss its implications
and the on-going roles that we might play. We hope these discussions have an
action orientation. Please join us.

FFI: alteravista [at] usfamily.net

 

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--8  Joint MN House & Senate hearing: PEAK OIL

MON FEB 4

1:00 p.m.
200 State Office Building

100 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN
(just southwest of the state capital)

 

Joint Minnesota Legislative hearing of the House Energy Finance & Policy
Division and the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities, Technology and
Communications.  Testifying will be Matt Simmons of Simmons & Co.
International, the world's largest energy investment banker.  HF 995, a bill
to prepare a plan of response and preparation to meet the challenges of peak
oil, will be heard (see
http://www.nextstep.state.mn.us/res_detail.cfm?id=3979).

 

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--9  Grandmothers for Peace -- FREE SPEECH FOR SALE - A Bill Moyers Special

WED FEB 6

12:45 pm
Edina Library, Grandview Square
Edina, MN



"When it comes to today's important public policy issues, the opportunity to
be heard depends on whether you can afford it.  In this program, Bill Moyers
and key legal and public interest advocates examine how industries with deep
pockets use their access to the media to overwhelm the public debate, from
North Carolina's hog industry to the defeat of the McCain Tobacco Bill to
the passage of the Telecom Act of 1996.  This Act, all but ignored by the
newspapers and TV outlets owned by megamedia, amounted to a massive giveaway
of the public's airwaves.  What consequences does this control over the flow
of information have for our democracy, and how can individuals and public
interest organizations counter the growing dominance of big media?"(57
minutes, color)
FFI: Cathy (952)941-0642

 

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