When the Occupy Wall Street Movement got underway last year, I watched it on YouTube; read about it online. I was struck by people young and old rising up to protest issues I too stood against, but I only watched and stayed out of it. (more…)
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The Impact of an Image
Monday, March 19th, 2012Tags:campaign finance reform, citizens united, corporate personhood, occupy
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Rallying Against Corporate Personhood
Friday, March 9th, 2012Ever wonder what it’s like to rally and march for an issue? Does it make a difference? You bet!!!
Several people from EUUC went to the “Citizens Ignited Against Citizens United” rally on January 21. Here is one member’s enthusiastic description: (more…)
Tags:campaign finance reform, citizens united, corporate personhood, occupy
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Building Bridges workshop – May 21
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011The Building Bridges workshop is this coming Saturday, May 21. This is a joint effort between UUSC, East Shore, University, Edmonds UU, and several Muslim groups. John Tucker, our UUSC rep, has participated in organizing it, and Eric will deliver closing remarks in the afternoon. Download a flyer. (more…)
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Luncheons for the Soul
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011Time flies. Doesn’t it always? One month you’re busy shopping and preparing for the winter holidays, and then you’re making the big decision of where your firstborn is going to go to kindergarten, and then your parents are in town, and then… and then…. It never ends. But don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining. A friend once shared his father’s wisdom with me. “When your ‘to do’ list is done, then you’re as good as dead.” Or something to that effect. But sometimes this busy-ness gets in the way of things that I’d like to do, or in the way of who I’d like to be. Enter Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church (fondly abbreviated as EUUC). (more…)
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Personal Changes to Minimize Climate Disasters
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011I’m writing this on a bus navigating wet roads with patches of ice. The snowy scene outside is lovely, and the bus driver worries about not hitting other cars. It reminds me that several years ago, I read that there was a rural letter carrier in Minnesota who raced dog sleds on the weekends.
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If We Can Learn to Cook Soufflé, We Can Figure Out How to Stop Climate Disaster
Monday, January 3rd, 2011A year ago, EUUC hosted three showings of the beautiful and distressing movie, Home at EUUC. Home is a video portrait of the earth, and of what people are doing to the globe. The movie is like a cry of pain. Ice caps are melting. Oceans are becoming more acidic and continue rising. Flooding, droughts, and storms from the arctic are our present and will dominate our future. As the deteriorating environment kills more and more people, environmental refugees will attempt to overwhelm developed-world kindness and self-preservation will tempt people on both sides of the development divide to start disposing of other populations.
After each showing of the movie, there was a common response. Don Snow summarized it well: The movie is like a beautiful child screaming, “HELP ME!” Inside, we are yelling back, “Hold on! We’re coming!” But not everyone felt confident. If we’re going to help, what are we going to do?
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Car Sharing
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010As an auto enthusiast I was fascinated by this article on car sharing.
Particularly the claim about the drop in the number of cars owned in areas where car sharing is installed.
What might you do differently if you knew you had a car available when you needed one, without having to own it?
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20101224/CARNEWS/101229938
Or
www.tinyurl.com/2e3qqoo
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