Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance - MUUSJA
 
Greetings!

Please join us for the Fall MUUSJA general meeting.  We're really excited to have several special guest speakers talking about our UU legacy of marriage equality.  And, we'll be updating you on our recent activities and our plans for the program year ahead.

We want to hear from you, too.  We'll be surveying our membership as part of building the UU movement for justice here in Minnesota.

So we hope to see you at White Bear UU Church this coming Sunday, October 18th at 1:30 pm.  If you can't be there, watch your inbox and check www.muusja.org for frequent news updates.  And feel free to contact us!

Ralph Wyman
MUUSJA Director/Organizer
rwmuusja@gmail.com
612-998-6624

Equality Chalice 
MUUSJA Fall Meeting:
Building a Marriage Equality Movement in Minnesota

Sunday, October 18th
1:30 - 3:00 pm
White Bear UU Church, Social Hall
328 Maple Street, Mahtomedi
Map (very helpful)

AGENDA
 
I.    Introductions - Kathleen Hollinger, MUUSJA Chair
II.   Setting the Stage - Ralph Wyman, MUUSJA Staff
III.  Unity "Love Bus" riders: Ann Hite, Kelly and Rhonda Kist, and Joni and Teresa
      Redfern-Hall and their children
IV.  Spiritual grounding of our work - Rev. Victoria Safford
V.   Action Step: Supporting MUUSJA - Jo Haberman
VI.  Work Group Proposals
            EcoMinds - Marcy
            UUO4M - Jo
            Voter Rights - Jenny
            Sacred Choices - Kathleen
                   -> Action Step: Vote on proposals
VII.  MUUSJA on-the-spot action steps:
        ·  MUUSJA issue survey
        ·  Marriage petition campaign
        ·  Postcards to the President
        ·  350.org photo & October 24th Climate Day of Action
VIII. Closing - Love Will Guide Us
       Adjourn
Refreshments & mingling

Plus: We will get a special preview of an art opening - WBUUC together with the Immigrant Freedom Network will debut a special art exhibit on Sunday, Oct. 25th.
See it early at our Fall MUUSJA Meeting!
 
Speaker
About our speakers
 
Rev. Victoria Safford is minister of White Bear UU, serving there since 1999.  She is a Safford Marriage PressConfgraduate of Vassar College and Yale Divinity School, and the winner of numerous sermon awards including, most recently, the UUA's Annual Program Fund award, and the Unitarian Universalist Sunday School Society.  Prior to her 20 years as a UU minister, she was a community organizer with the American Friends Service Committee.

Rev. Safford has spoken on marriage equality on many occasions, including at the Minnesota Capitol.  She was one of many People of Faith Allies at the October 8th press conference "coming out" in support of LGBT marriage.  MUUSJA has video of her remarks (and Unity's Rev. Eller-Isaacs) on our UUO4M page.
 
Janne Eller-Isaacs marries twoThe Unity Love Bus Riders were nine couples who traveled with Reverends Janne and Rob Eller-Isaacs of Unity Church Unitarian on August 29th, 2009, to Iowa to be legally wed.  We will be joined by two couples, Kelly and Rhonda Kist and Joni and Teresa Redfern-Hall, and some of their kids, and Unity's Interweave chair Ann Hite.  They all rode the bus and have wonderful stories of their experience to share with us.

 
Read our regular e-news The Connection for news, calendar items, and connections to the social justice actions of MUUSJA's many social justice partners and allies.
 
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