Are you still looking to play a role in this year’s election? Do you believe that all people have a voice? Would you like to encourage them to use that voice? Yes? Great! Mike Elliott now has more packets of postcards available and will be distributing at church for the next few Sundays. As of this Friday, August 21, 4,600 postcards have been distributed so far in our congregation!
Keep it up Ridwell Recyclers!! Come help us prep Monday, August 26 at 2 p.m. The next featured item is plastic caps. Please drop off all items by noon on 8/26. Always bring CLEAN and dry threads (clothes & shoes), CLEAN white rigid styrofoam, CLEAN plastic film & multilayer plastic and any lightbulbs. Remember: Ridwell now accepts empty pill bottles, save them at home for future pick ups! Please call Kathy (612-590-9606) or Sue (612-703-2297) with any questions. We love questions!!
Support exploited workers by attending the Minnetonka City Council meeting this Monday, August 26th at 6:30pm at 14600 Minnetonka Blvd. Allies from CTUL asked UUCM to help pack the room at the city council meeting in support of their efforts to get United Properties, the biggest developer in Minnesota, to meet with workers and seriously address worker rights violations like wage theft, labor trafficking, and safety hazards. This kind of exploitation is all too common in non-union construction where the people ultimately responsible for working conditions hide behind multiple layers of subcontractors. CTUL is short for Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha. In English that’s The Center for Workers United in Struggle. CTUL is a worker center based in Minneapolis best known for organizing with Spanish speaking construction workers.
Registration for the fall series of Beloved Conversations (Virtual): Within through the Meadville-Lombard Theological School is open through August 31st. Sign up here. Scholarships are available! This virtual course is meant for white people who are ready to learn more about how knowledge, hope, imagination, love, and community can come together to combat racism in all its forms. Join dozens of your UUCM peers in completing this reflective education that is a great first step towards your own growth and helping our entire congregation on our journey to becoming anti-racist. From the Beloved Conversations: Within website on outcomes: “The aim of Beloved Conversations is to underline that racial justice work (and the self-understanding and personal work that are essential to it) is the work of our lifetime, and we engage it in different ways…everyone has work to do and we will all have different learning goals and outcomes. And the learning is never done- it only shifts and changes over time.” The course includes a series of 6 virtual lessons that drop to your inbox every other week from September 10 through December 3, 2024. Each participant is also assigned to a virtual study group that will meet every other week (at a time of the group’s choosing) via Zoom to process the lessons. Please contact Karen Zais with any questions.
RIDWELL REMINDER: Keep it up Ridwell Recyclers!! Come help us with prep every other Monday at 2 p.m. We’ll be meeting next on 8/26. The next featured item is plastic caps. Please drop off all items by noon on 8/26. Always bring CLEAN and dry threads (clothes & shoes), CLEAN white rigid styrofoam, CLEAN plastic film & multilayer plastic and any lightbulbs. Remember: Ridwell now accepts empty pill bottles, save them at home for future pick ups! Please call Kathy (612-590-9606) or Sue (612-703-2297) with any questions. We love questions!!
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