mesj sponsoring international women's day TOMORROW!

[Crystal Young-Otterstrom]

Hello MESJ of SLC:

MESJ of SLC is sponsoring International Women's Day TOMORROW! 
See attached flyer for more info - and invite your friends.  This event will be
our progressive FHE for the month, so no FHE on Monday March 10th.
If you'd like to still do something progressive on Monday, scroll down to the
bottom of this email for a great event on Mormonism and the Environment.
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Women Transforming the World

This year's program explores how the arts can be used
to alleviate challenging problems in the community.

We are pleased to present a new documentary film,
"A Ripple in the Water: Healing Through Art"

March 8, 2008, 6:00 pm
Black Box Theater of the Utah Opera Production Studios
336 N. 400 W.

6:00 pm Reception, information tables, light refreshments;
7:00 pm Film; 8:00 pm Discussion

Free and open to the public This film reveals how the artistic
vision of one woman, Kim Berman, works to reduce poverty, illiteracy,
and the impact of the AIDS crisis in her community and country. She
established the Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg to teach printmaking
skills to impoverished youth, and she initiated papermaking and
embroidery projects in rural South Africa that are producing positive
social changes.

Presented By: A Gift to Africa, Ten Thousand Villages, YWCA,
Planned Parenthood of Utah, Westminster Environmental Center,
Mormons for Equality and Social Justice, Moonlodge and Tinogona
(PEACE X PEACE Affiliates)
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Panel Discussion on Mormon Environmentalism
Sponsored by the Mormon History Association and the University of Utah's
American West Center and Environmental Humanities program. 

Monday, March 10
6:00 to 7:30 p.m. 
Olpin Union Theater 
Olpin Student Union building 
200 Central Campus Dr.,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 

From the biblical "stewardship" vs. "dominion" conflict to the carefully
constructed "creation care" vs. environmentalism debate: religion and
the environment are tough subjects with historical tensions. Within the
context of frontier expansionism Brigham Young brought a devastated
people to a devastated land teaching his people of holistic thinking
interweaving the spiritual with the temporal with an emphasis on care
and responsibility toward God's gifts. Young's foundation was a
progressive doctrinal and ethical stance on the forward edge of nineteenth
century norms creating a boon to many within the modern LDS church
seeking to formulate a uniquely Mormon environmental ethic. What is
a modern Mormon religious environmental ethic? What are the tensions
today between the desert landscape and Young's vision of Zion?

The Mormon History Association and The University of Utah's American
West Center and Environmental Humanities program, invite you to
hear and respond to presenters Bryan Wallis, a graduate student in
the Environmental Humanities program at the University of Utah, and
George Handley, a Humanities Professor of Brigham Young University,
as they address Brigham Young's vision and what it means to be a
Mormon Environmentalist today. Tom Carter of the University of Utah,
Tom Alexander of Brigham Young University, and Lawrence Culver of
Utah State University will respond as a formal panel, with Paul Reeve
moderating. All are invited to share in the conversation.

For more information please contact:
The American West Center
801-581-7611
http://www.awc.utah.edu/

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Next Progressive FHE - April 14, 6-8pm | Location: TBA

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Crystal Young-Otterstrom
801.652.0737