AOF Event Sunday: Darien's Ballot Guide (+ one more event)

[Ken Nahigian]

 

 

Ballot Propositions: The Costly, the Absurd, and the Urgent

Sunday, October 27, 2024, 2pm - 4pm

Location :  Reason Center, 1300 Ethan Way, Ste 675, Sac.  Map at https://goo.gl/maps/S5MR1e8ZodBzb4TG8.

 

Darien DeLu’s perspective on November’s California Ballot Propositions: The Costly, the Absurd, and the Urgent

 

California voters will decide on ten state ballot measures this year. The costly items, as usual, are the bond measures. Our choices can be difficult when voters are facing economic challenges, yet it is fitting that citizens should vote on such measures. The future of California – our public educational systems and our ability to respond to the changing conditions in a time of climate change – will be shaped by our votes.

 

Wanting to share the benefit of her personal research, Darien DeLu began her Ballot Guide to the California Ballot Propositions sometime in the 1980s. Since then her career with the State of California and her activist involvement in the environmental, anti-nuclear, and peace and justice movements have further informed and deepened the mini-analyses she delivers every-other-year in her guide.

 

She is currently the national president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, US. Subscribe to the Ballot Guide by sending the message subscribe to Dariens_Ballot...@lists.sonic.net.

 

Come join us at Reason Center on October 27, where Darien will help us get to know the whole cast of ten characters on our November 2024 ballot.

 

Contact :  See the AOF Contact page (http://www.aofonline.org/contact.html)

A free event with free parking. Bring a snack or beverage to share if you can, maybe spare change for the donation jug. AOF will provide cool, clear water.

 

 

Davis Community Meal - Feed the Hungry 

Tuesday, Oct 29 2024, 4 pm - 7 pm

Location :  St. Martin's Episcopal Church hall, 640 Hawthorne Lane, Davis, CA. Map at http://binged.it/1uBpi57. 

 

The Davis Community Meal project serves meals to the hungry, the poor, the indigent, the outcast. It happens in bucolic Davis city, so near to us, where compassionate citizens have developed a secular solution for the problem of hunger, and need our help.

 

So join us, join us in this effort! Your reward will be an opportunity to meet new minds and hobnob with your freethought friends, a likely free meal, jazzy music, and the rosy hearts-glow of benevolence. Also, seriously, it's a blast!

 

Cooking? Dish washing? Pshaw, none required. The Davis Community Meals team will perform all the food prep and kitchen work. Our job is simply to set up chairs & tables, serve, smile, put things away at the end, and clean a bit (with a minimum of mopping). Extra points if you can arrive for setup, but if you can't, that's OK, any help is good help. Setup begins about 4:30 p.m., food service at about 5:45. At 6:30 we clean up, leaving the hall as we found it.

 

For details, please see Davis Community Meals. For a map to the site, see: Martin's Episcopal Church. (Yes, a church hall, so what?)

 

Contact for details:  916-805-9337 (Don Knutson), or see https://www.aofonline.org/contact.html.

Carpooling may be available. For info, contact the Service Project Coordinator (Don)