May calendar options for the progressive minded
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MISSOURI DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ATTORNEY GENERAL DEBATE
May 22, 2008 on the UMKC Campus, White Recital Hall
HYPERLINK "http://allsoulskc.org/sunday/forum.php"
http://allsoulskc.org/sunday/forum.php
All Souls Forum UU broadcast on KKFI - EVERY Monday at 6:00p.m. Live at
ASUU @10a.m.
Violence Against Women - Mary White Stewart -Sunday, May 4 - 10a.m.
To respond effectively to violence against women, UMKC visiting professor
Mary White Stewart says, it's important to distinguish between ordinary
violence against women and the less common "patriarchal terrorism." Stewart
is director of the Women's Studies Program at the University of Nevada,
Reno.
So Just How Many Kinds of Stem Cells Are There Anyway?- Scott Hawley – Sun,
May 25 @10
The discovery that adult stem cells can be “re-programmed” to adopt
embryonic cell characteristics augments but does not replace the need to
pursue the truly exciting possibilities inherent in the use of embryonic
stem cells to fight disease, says R. Scott Hawley, an American Cancer
Society research professor at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.
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My Mother Told Me So - Jim Eller
May 11 - 8:45 and 11:15
As a country, we have lost our way. Not only our foreign policy but we are
suffering from a loss of civility. So much of what we need to regain we
learned in kindergarten. All the Things I Really Needed to Know, I learned
from my mother, from my school, from my church school. We can again choose
civility as a value. Our world will be the better for it.
HYPERLINK "http://allsoulskc.org/events/tuesday.php"
http://allsoulskc.org/events/tuesday.php
Tuesday Night Film Series
April 29, 7 p.m. How to Save the World: One Man, One Cow, One Planet
Running time 56 min.
How To Save The World is a film that takes us into the heart of the world’s
most important renaissance – something that few of us are aware is even
happening. Hoes rather than swords are at the front-line of a battle for
agricultural control that is being fought over Indian soil. Its outcome
could well determine the future of the entire earth. Using
biodynamic-organic methods, farmers of India are reclaiming their lands and
livelihood. At the same time they’re exposing the corporate mantra of
infinite growth in a finite world for the environmental and human disaster
that it really is.
MAY FILM SERIES
Tuesday, May 6 – 7:00 p.m. Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Unnatural Cause is a seven-part six-hour-long series exploring racial and
socio-economic inequalities in health – and searches for their root causes.
Episodes 1 and 2 will be shown tonight. Episodes 3, 5, and 6 will be shown
on May 27.
Episode 1: In Sickness and In Wealth (56 min)
Health and longevity are correlated with socio-economic status, people of
color face an additional health burden, and our health and well-being are
tied to policies that promote economic and social justice.
Episode 2: When the Bough Breaks (29 min)
Infant mortality rates among African Americans remain twice as high as among
whites. Researchers are circling in on the added burden of racism as a
long-term risk factor.
Tuesday, May 13 – 7:00 p.m. Mother Wove the Morning
This is a one-woman play written and acted by Carol Lynn Pearson that was
first performed in 1989 and since taken around the country and abroad.
Sixteen women throughout history search for the Feminine Divine. The women
in the play begin with Bruen the Paleolithic (20,000 B.C.) and end with
Carol Lynn Pearson (today). Tuesday, May 20 – 7:00 p.m. Sunset Story Sunset
Hall, founded in 1923, is a "retirement home for free-thinking elderly,"
integrating aging with progressive activism The film goes inside the world
of two women, Irja (81) and Lucille (95), whose feisty engagement with life
draws them together inextricably
Tuesday, May 27 – 7:00 p.m. Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Episode 3: Becoming American (29 min)
The longer Mexican Americans are here, the worse their relative health
becomes, even as their socioeconomic status improves. Can community and
labor organizing reverse the downward trend?
Episode 5: Place Matters (29 min)
Recent Southeast Asian and Latino immigrants are moving into what have been
neglected Black urban neighborhoods—and now their health is being eroded
too. What local actions can make a difference?
Episode 6: Collateral Damage (29 min)
U.S. occupation, military policy and globalization impact people’s
health--often in unanticipated ways
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Kansas & Missouri UUs Work to Reclaim Mothers Day as a Day for Peace
Mothers Day 2008 - May 11, 2008, 3:00 - Overland Park, KS
Are you a Mother? Have you ever had a Mother?
If you can answer yes to one or both of these questions, you can be a part
of the Mothers Day celebration as it was originally intended, a voice for
peace and against war. Julia’s Voice is sponsoring an event to stand for
peace at 3:00 on Sunday, May 11 in Overland Park.
Julia's Voice, a group of “mothers and others” is dedicated to reclaiming
Mothers Day as it was intended by Unitarian Julia Ward Howe. The group is
guided by Howe’s vision to establish a day to promote peace and speak out
against war. Howe was an active abolitionist, suffragette, poet and author
of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
On May 11, 2008, an event will be help to honor the work of mothers to
teach, in Howe’s words, “patience, charity and mercy”. The event, Moms
Against the War will stand for peace along the public sidewalk at 3:00 in
Overland Park on 95th Street between Nieman and Quivera, in Overland Park,
rain or shine. This is also the location of the district office of Kansas
Senator Sam Brownback.
Send a message for peace. Stand shoulder to shoulder, lining the sidewalks
of this busy intersection and with “mothers and others”, Julia Ward Howe
re-enactors, musicians and other special guests.
Sponsors include All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, Shawnee Mission
Unitarian Universalist Church, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and American
Friends Service Committee of Kansas City.
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Choir Sunday on May 4th. At these services we will be performing Donald
McCullough and Denny Clark's hauntingly beautiful "Holocaust Cantata: Songs
from the Camps," for chorus, cello and piano.
Interweave Events (LGBTQA Advocacy)
Interweave, the All Souls group for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Queer, Questioning, and Allied people and interests, has many events going
on inside and outside of the church in May. Everyone is welcome to come to
our events! -Social at Panera in Westport with Mitra Rahnema & Jim Lewis -
Friday, May 16, 5pm-7pm -Potluck at the Church - Sunday, May 25, 12:30
Also, in the community:
-Second Annual LGBT Community Picnic, Swope Park (Shelter 7) - Sunday, May
18, 11am-3pm
-Kansas City Gay Pride Festival -Sat, May 31 & Sun, June 1, Liberty Memorial
Park
Special Offering May 25
On Memorial Day weekend, we have the opportunity to walk our talk and give
generously to Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, (MADP). MADP
chapters HYPERLINK "http://www.moabolition.org" www.moabolition.org are
working toward a moratorium on the death
penalty with in-depth study of its use in Missouri. The offering will be
part of the match needed for a grant from UUA Funding. Read the material on
the website, find out what they are doing and how you can help.
Veronica’s Voice
On Wednesday May 28th at 7pm CASA is proud to host Kristy Childs, a survivor
of commercial and sexual exploitation and the founder of Veronica’s Voice, a
grassroots organization founded in 2000. Veronica’s Voice educates and
provides resources to help clients with options to assist them in leaving a
life of prostitution, sexual exploitation, drug addiction and violence, and
to transition into new lives free from abuse. Please join us for this
informative session. For more information, contact Karrie Krumm at
816-842-2272.
God: A Biography: Non-Fiction Book Club
Is it possible to approach God not as an object of religious reverence, but
as the protagonist of the world's greatest book -- as a character who
possesses all the depths, contradictions, and ambiguities of a Hamlet? How
does he depend on the other characters, and how does his relationship with
them show his development? Author Jack Miles provides a learned, original
exegesis that will send readers back to the Bible in curious amazement. This
book is a winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for biography. Join Rachel
McElhany and the Non-Fiction Book Club for a discussion of this book on
Monday, May 19, from 7:00-9:00 pm.
Groundhog Day: Breakthrough to the True Self
Join Documentary Film Series co-host, Mike McKelley, for a look at the
mythic resonances and literary counterparts in the movie Groundhog Day.
Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray and Andie McDowell, is an exceptional
work of moral fiction that shows a character who has to be exiled from
normal life so that he can discover that he is in exile from himself. How do
the messages in this film apply to your own life? Class meets Monday May 5,
7-9 p.m. for the showing of the film, Monday’s May 12 & 19, 7-9 p.m. for
guided discussion.
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