WITNESS FOR JUSTICE

A Call for Allies of Immigrants:
We Must Expose and Oppose Detention of Immigrants

Raids, Detentions and Deportations:

WITNESS FOR JUSTICE

A Call for Allies of Immigrants:
We Must Expose and Oppose Detention of Immigrants

WHEN: Wednesday, October 1st, 5pm-6pm
WHERE: at Boston City Plaza (by the Government Center T Stop).
This location is near the JFK Building – home of the immigration court.
 
Background

Renewal House: Domestic Violence Volunteer Training

Interested in working directly with clients?
This fall Renewal House will be offering a Training Series
for all interested in volunteering at Renewal House. One of the ways
people can volunteer is by providing Hotline Help - which can be done
from your cell/ home phone. Training dates are THURSDAYS, OCT. 2, 9,
16 & 23, 6-9 PM - AND SATURDAY OCT. 4TH, 10-4. All sessions will be
help at the UUUM in Roxbury. For more information contact Rev. Susan
Criscione, Director of Renewal House, 617-277-4194, or Rebekah Ingram,

Scott Kellogg and Stacy Pettigrew, members of Austin, Texas’ Rhizome Collective, visit the Jamaica Plain Forum to discuss their newly released South End Press book “Sustainable City Living.”

Jamaica invited you to ""Lioness" Free Community Screening" on Friday, October 10 at 7:00pm.

Event: "Lioness" Free Community Screening
What: Preview
Host: The Jamaica Plain Forum
Start Time: Friday, October 10 at 7:00pm
End Time: Friday, October 10 at 9:00pm
Where: First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=30704727405

The Great Turning
Shifting Toward A Life Sustaining Civilization: An Evening with Joanna Macy
Friday, October 10, 2008 * 7:00 - 9:00 pm * $8 Brookline High
School, 115 Greenough Street

World-renowned Buddhist scholar, eco-philosopher, author, and teacher
Joanna Macy has called the current and crucial shifting from our
industrial growth society toward a life-sustaining civilization "the
essential adventure of our time". Like a growing number of people, she
calls this adventure "The Great Turning". Tonight, through a mixture of

Grassroots Community Cookout and Justice Fair, Oct. 12, gathers local human service, advocacy, and community organizing groups

Malden-area community organizations are gathering for a Grassroots Community Cookout and Justice Fair on Sunday, Oct. 12, from 2 - 6 p.m. at the First Parish in Malden, Universalist. Children and families are welcome, and the free event will take place rain or shine.

Please see mbd/uua.org for details.

Please see mbd/uua.org for details.

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

CROP Walk Recruiters, Youth Leaders,
and Faith Community Leaders,

The 2008 CROP Walk will be on Sunday, October 19th, starting at Trinitarian Congregational Church, Concord at 2:15 PM with registration and music beginning at 1:30 PM

Mary Brannelly will talk about one of the local hunger programs
supported by the CROP Walk -

Maynard Food Pantry

The Maynard Food Pantry provides free groceries to 40-45 families each week. Maynard residents shop twice per month and residents from surrounding towns may shop once per month.

Please contact Norman Miller

Event: Songfest and "Pete Seeger: The Power of Song" Screening
What: Performance
Host: The Jamaica Plain Forum
Start Time: Sunday, October 19 at 5:00pm
End Time: Sunday, October 19 at 7:30pm
Where: First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=53177389936

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

> Illegal Immigrants? Undocumented Workers?
> Or our Neighbors?
> “Looking at Immigration
> Through the Lens of Faith”
> A program presented by Pax Christi Metrowest
> MORSE INSTITUTE LIBRARY, NATICK, MA
> (Parking behind Police & Fire Stations, E. Central St., Rte. 135)
> Monday, October 20, 2008, 7-9 pm
> Speaker: Patty Kupfer of America's Voice
> ALL ARE WELCOME
>
> *Ms. Kupfer is the Manager of Partnerships at America's Voice, where she supports religious leaders and organizations in building the power needed to pass fair and humane immigration reform.

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

On Saturday, October 25, 2008, UUSC will cosponsor a Walk for Literacy organized by Barakat to raise funds and awareness for Barakat’s literacy programs in Afghanistan. According to UNICEF, only 18 percent of Afghan girls and young women aged 15-24 years are literate. Sometimes this means just being able to write one’s name.

Proceeds from Barakat’s Walk for Literacy will support home-based literacy programs, which reach more than Afghan 750 girls and women.
The walk begins at 9 a.m., in Sennott Park, near Central Square, in Cambridge, Mass. Registration begins at 8 a.m.

Women’s Trip to Nicaragua! To continue the First Parish Church of Groton’s work in Nicaragua, a Women’s Trip is planned for October 18-26th, 2008.

You are invited to join women from 1st Parish Church of Groton on an exciting Women’s Trip to Nicaragua this October, 18-26, 2008. We’ll stay in the farming community of Papayal (located just outside of Managua and in the heart of the largest free-trade zones in Nicaragua), where we’ll work side-by-side with local families, helping construct a home and plant a community garden. Thanks to fundraising efforts through Bridges to Community, women from the small rural village of Santa Rosa will travel to join the Papayal group learn about women’s cooperatives and micro-loan opportunities.

Sunday ~ October 26
Bernardston Unitarian Church
11:30 am ~ coffee & refreshments at 11
Arts and Activism 4th Sundays
Special guest speaker: Abbie Jenks ~ Professor, Peace & Social Justice & Human Services at Greenfield Community College (see attachment for photo)

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
689 Massachusetts Avenue • Cambridge, MA 02139 • 617-868-6600 • www.uusc.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Eloise Clawson, UCC, 781-293-1340
October 16, 2008 Dick Campbell, UUSC, 617-301-4370

NEWS Release
Human rights activist brings antiwar message to Norwell

November 4th Election Day is rapidly approaching

School Smarts, a non-partisan, volunteer community arts/education advocacy group, urges you to get out and VOTE next Tuesday!

While we are all focused on this very important national election, be sure to find out about Question #1 on the Massachusetts ballot.

Question #1 is legally binding legislation to repeal the state's income tax. If passed, this will go into effect within two months and lead to a cut of $12 billion, 40% of the state's operating budget.