Join UUCM Climate Justice on Thursday, February 27th for a tour of the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) trash incinerator at 10 a.m. The tour begins at the HERC Visitor Center at 435 North 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55401. Note: this address is that of a visitor entrance door on the top level on the Target Field Station Parking Ramp. Please do not search for the address of the HERC plant (it’s different). Please click here read more details on the information sheet. Please RSVP to Dick Asinger dickasinger@icloud.com
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Ridwell Reminder
CLARIFICATION IN RESPONSE TO RECENT QUESTIONS: The Terracycle box in the kitchen is for hard plastic clamshells and blister packs. Previously it was also intended for snack bags but now those go into Ridwell multilayer plastic container. NEXT RIDWELL FEATURED ITEM: kitchen utensils and silverware. Bring these in addition to any of your usual items by SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9. Yes, Sunday is the next prep day because our High School RE class will be sorting!
Remember: Ridwell any lightbulbs *except fluorescent bulbs*. We are charged $4.00 a piece for fluorescents. You can take them to Hennepin County hazardous waste sites in Bloomington and Brooklyn Park. Please also make sure there isn’t any food residue left in your items—it is hard for the prep team to take time to clean and dry bags. Thanks for working toward zero waste! Contact Kathy (612-590-9606) or Sue (612-703-2297) with questions 💚
Jim Crow of the North
THE WEEK AHEAD: UUCM Is partnering with Beacon to host a screening of Jim Crow of the North on Tuesday, February 4 at 6:30 p.m. The TPT documentary explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. It also illustrates how African-American families and leaders resisted this insidious practice, and how Black people built community — within and despite — the red lines that these restrictive covenants created. Contact Sue Fust with questions.
Save the Date: At the River I Stand Film Screening
Please join the UUCM Racial Justice Team in the sanctuary on Saturday, February 22 at 2 p.m. for a film screening of the 1993 documentary At the River I Stand with guest speaker Amanda Goodman-Berry. The film is about the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Amanda Goodman-Berry is a longtime union leader at Delta Airlines, formerly Northwest Airlines. She is part of the current union organizing drive for Delta ramp workers. Amanda and other union organizers have pushed back against Delta using Dr. King as a marketing prop while also trying to block their workers from unionizing. The movie is about an hour long and will be followed by Amanda’s remarks and a group discussion.
This event connects the struggles of the civil rights era with the current struggle for economic justice at one of the South’s premier corporations – Delta Airlines. In 1968 sanitation workers in Memphis took the radical action of an illegal strike after two workers were killed on the job. Martin Luther King joined their struggle for safety, respect on the job, and fair compensation – and it cost him his life. Stirring and shocking footage from the time includes Dr. King’s last speech, given to striking workers the day before he was assassinated.
Delta Airlines portrays itself as a “woke” corporation while simultaneously trying to block its workers’ efforts to unionize. After Delta produced a video about Dr. King that left out his support for economic justice and unionization, guest speaker Amanda Goodman-Berry wrote a letter to Delta leadership inviting them to meet workers in Memphis to talk about what Martin Luther King died for – the very same safety, respect on the job, and fair compensation that everyone deserves and Delta workers are trying to achieve through unionization.
Invite your friends, and help promote the event!
- Share this printable flyer
- And use these for graphics for social media posts
Background Information:
People’s March Plan Update
A group from UUCM will be carpooling to The People’s March tomorrow, Saturday, January 18. Here’s a schedule of the plans for the day:
- Meet at UUCM at 10 a.m. to carpool
- Leave UUCM at 10:20 a.m.
- We’ll meet with other UU congregations between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m. north of the Cathedral in the open space near Marshall Ave.
- Pre-march rally begins at 11:30 a.m. at St. Paul College (235 Marshall Avenue, Saint Paul)
- Gather in Parking Lots D and E
- March from St. Paul College to the Minnesota State Capitol at Noon
- Capitol Program 12:30–1:30 p.m. (on the Capitol steps at 75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, St. Paul)
- Carpoolers return to UUCM at 2 p.m.
- Note: Capitol Rotunda and indoor restrooms will be open from 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
MUUSJA is asking UUs attending to RSVP here. Contact Virginia Carter with questions.
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