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« March 05, 2009 - April 04, 2009 »
 
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Social Action Mini-Conference – Continuing the Dialogue/World Café
Start: 10:00 am
End: 1:00 pm

Agenda
10 Welcome and introductions
10:30 World Café – two rounds
11:10 Rapid Response Team follow-up/Preparation for April 1 Lobby Day
11:50 Wrap up/evaluation
Noon – 1 Optional Brown Bag/Pizza Lunch and Sharing our work

About the World Café Format
As Meg Wheatley says... “Intelligence emerges as a system connects to itself in new and diverse ways.” Each participant in the Café represent an aspect of the whole system’s diversity and as each person has the chance to connect in conversation more the intelligence inherent in the group becomes accessible.

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Savings Through Energy Management (STEM)
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm

The aim of this free workshop is to introduce churches, synagogues, Buddhist temples, & mosques in the Greater Boston Area to Savings Through Energy Management (STEM)—a low-cost high-impact 5-week course that helps congregations collaborate to save energy, save money, and fight climate change.

The workshop is designed for learning and networking, and, for those interested, planning how to bring STEM to the congregations in your community.

What is STEM for This Old House of Worship?
This 5-week collaborative course can help you...
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Transforming Social Action from chronos to kairos
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 3:30 pm

A Social Action Meditation

In the midst of checking your e-mail, can the sacred break in?

Take a second, and examine how you feel right now. What's in your head? What is your body experiencing?

Transforming your social action work from chronos to kairos
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm

A Social Action Meditation

In the midst of checking your e-mail, can the sacred break in?

Take a second, and examine how you feel right now. What's in your head? What is your body experiencing?

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A New Model for Improving Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Thursday, March 12th: A New Model for Improving
Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Dan Valianti, Next Step Living
Location
The First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian
Universalist 3 Church Street Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
Time
Program begins at 7:30 PM Doors open at 7:00 PM
Existing buildings consume more than 40% of the energy used in
the United States -- and residential buildings by themselves
consume almost as much as total transportation. While we worry
about fuel efficient cars, energy use in our homes has received
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Faith Without Borders: Bringing the Unitarian Universalist Sixth Principle to Life
Start: 8:30 am
End: 1:00 pm

Faith Without Borders:
Bringing the Unitarian Universalist
Sixth Principle to Life
Join the UUA’s Director of International Resources, Rev. Eric
Cherry, and leaders throughout our District for a Congregational
Workshop that will share tools for building ministries of:
“We Covenant to Affirm and Promote
the Goal of World Community with
Peace, Liberty and Justice for All”
Saturday, March 14, 2009 at First Parish UU Church, Duxbury, MA
781-934-6532 - Directions at www.duxburyuu.org
8:30am - 1:00pm
All are Welcome. It is recommended that congregations send Teams
03 / 15
Showing: A crude Awakening
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Environmental Film Series
First Parish in Framingham
24 Vernon Street, Framingham

Sunday, March 15, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
A Crude Awakening
Tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.
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Witness on the Sixth Anniversary of the Iraq War
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm

Please join the UUA, UUSC, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families, Iraq War Veterans, Veterans for Peace, Mass Peace Action, United for Justice with Peace and others for:

Witness on the Sixth Anniversary of the Iraq War

Fulfill the Promise—End the Occupation

Saturday, March 21st., 10a.m.- 2 p.m. Boston Common (see below)

We will gather on the Boston Common to read the names of US and Iraqi war dead.

The commemorative reading will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 2 p.m.

The commemoration will include short statements, prayers, poetry, and music.

ALL SOULS COMMUNITY FORUM: WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

ALL SOULS COMMUNITY FORUM:
WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS

Reconstruction and social responsibility

after Hurricane Katrina

Presented by co-author

Robert R.N. Ross

Walking to New Orleans: Ethics and
the Concept of Participatory Design in
Post-Disaster Reconstruction
by Robert R.N. Ross and Deanne E.B. Ross

Saturday, March 21, 2009 — 2 to 4 PM

ALL SOULS CHURCH
196 Elm Street
Braintree, MA 02184
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Aviva Chomsky will deliver a major talk on immigration
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

On Tuesday, March 24th, at 7pm, professor (Salem State) Aviva Chomsky, author of ”They Take Our Jobs!” and 20 other myths about immigration, will present a public talk at the UUCM entitled, “Immigration and Human Rights.” This talk will be co-sponsored by the Medford Human Rights Commission and the Students at Tufts Acting for Immigration Reform (STAIR). We feel this is one of the highlight events of the spring. Please make plans to attend.
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UU Lobby Day
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:30 pm

Newsletter Announcement.

Save the date for the Third Annual UU Lobby Day! It will take place, on Wednesday, April 1st, from 10:00 to 2:30, beginning at the UUA office at 25 Beacon Street.

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Volleyball Marathon
Start: 9:00 am
End: 5:00 pm

Volleyball Marathon
Join us on Saturday between 9 and 5, on April 4, 2009 at Babson College to play volleyball and benefit the William Ellery Channing Elementary School in Hyde Park and Promise the Children.
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