The Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network is hosting a presentation of the Beehive Design Collective's "Dismantling Monoculture" picture-lecture, Thursday April 16th at 5:30p.m. at Lowe Mill (2211 Seminole Dr.).

The event starts at 5:30p.m. with food, mingling, and time to peruse the murals. The presentation starts at 6:00p.m. This event is FREE and open to all ages! Donations are greatly appreciated!

The Beehive Design Collective is a wildly motivated, all-volunteer, activist arts collective dedicated to "cross-pollinating the grassroots" by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. With giant portable murals and an engaging narrative, the Bees take audiences on an interactive visual tour of the connections between colonization, militarization, and resource extraction.

More about the Beehive Design Collective and the specific murals that comprise this presentation at http://beehivecollective.org/.

Water is essential to human life. Yet, almost three-quarters of a billion people around the world lack clean drinking water. The United Nations has reported that more people now die from contaminated water than from all forms of violence.

UUSC defends and promotes the human right to water by working with grassroots groups and activists to push for new laws, challenge violations, and create new models for implementation.

UUSC collaborates with innovative groups who are protecting water resources and increasing access to services in law and practice. Recognizing that too many people are denied the human right to water because of discriminatory policies and procedures, UUSC puts special focus on working with people in the following populations:

• Rural communities and low-income urban residents
• Indigenous people
• People of color, women, children, and people living with disabilities

Access to water shouldn't depend on your race or bank account. UUSC envisions a sustainable future in which all people have access to water for basic human needs and water supplies are safe from industrial contamination, over-extraction, and climate change.

UUs consider safe access to water a human right and your contribution to our Share the Plate program will help support the UUSC in their efforts to ensure the human right to safe, clean drinking water. In addition, UUCH will be holding a Climate Justice Sunday on April 19th where the right to water will be discussed as it relates to climate change.

*When we "Share the Plate," all cash collected on the first Sunday of each month in the quarter (April, May, and June), along with any checks noted as "Share the Plate," will be halved with the UU Service Committee.

At our Circle of Candles on Sunday, April 5th, candles were lit for: