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UU Service Committee Update
As your representative on the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, I want to share with you a bit of what I have learned about the UUSC. Like the Red Cross, it rapidly responds to disasters like the earthquake in Haiti. Like UNICEF, it has long term projects to build stronger communities which reflect our values. It works internationally, nationally, and locally. For example, it helped support the Santa Fe effort to pass the Living Wage Ordinance.
Right now, one of its projects, which has massive implications for New Mexico, is acting on the idea that access to clean water is a Human Right. I will report more about this project later. It’s funding comes from Guest at Your Table and direct contributions. Individuals and congregations make direct gifts to support individual projects or general operations. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Mary Ellen Gonzales
MDD News
The Mountain Desert District is on the move! Since becoming MDD President, I have become involved with the District Presidents Association and serve on a sub- committee working with three other district presidents to determine how “regionalization” will shake out for us. Also I am working with a different group of three district presidents with whom we share an endowment. Let me start by saying that “regionalization” does NOT mean that MDD is going away, likely only that we will be coordinating and working more closely with the three districts west of us.
In fact, MDD has decided to forego our next October meeting to encourage more of us to attend the first Pacific Western Regional meeting in April, 2013. We have, for a long time, been the only district that did elections in the fall, so we will be coordinating better with other districts by doing this.
Of course, that also means that I get an extra six months of being district president! So, while you wait for the regional gathering in spring of 2013, begin to make your plans now for General Assembly in Phoenix in June of 2012.
I will have more information for you soon, but encourage you to attend if at all possible. It will be our first “Justice General Assembly,” with very minimal “business as usual,” and something a bit unusual for all of us. See you there!
Marcia Bowman
Chair, Denominational Awareness and President, Mountain Desert District
UUA Coverage
You may still find coverage of the events and actions at UUA General Assembly in Charlotte, NC June 22-26 via the General Assembly link on the UUA website.
UUA Social Justice Calendar 2011-2012
This listing provided resource links to the monthly themes for the UUA Social Justice initiatives.
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THE VP (vagina-penis) DIALOGUES is “Just Say NO!” Enough to Know? Welcome to a performance piece THE VP (vagina-penis) DIALOGUES. From the overture written by Santa Fe’s Alice Ladas, - co-author of The G Spot, the performance is both entertaining and educational, illustrating the universal questions about our two favorite anatomical parts. This piece is all about questions. Audience members are invited to write their own questions, which will be answered in the after-show talkback. What have you always wanted to ask and not had a safe place?
