Category / Social Justice

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Ridwell Reminder!

RIDWELL REMINDER: The next featured items are plastic caps and lids. Please bring them before the next prep party on January 27 at 2 p.m. Our usual items are always welcome including: light bulbs, multi-layer plastic, plastic film, threads and shoes and clean rigid white styrofoam. Please be saving for upcoming featured items including: silverware and kitchen utensils, denim clothing, keys, usable plastic coat hangars. Thanks for working toward zero waste! Contact Kathy (612-590-9606) or Sue (612-703-2297) with questions 💚

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Reminder: Shame of Chicago Screening

REMINDER: UUCM Is partnering with Beacon for a screening of the 5-part documentary season Shame of Chicago, Shame of the Nation. It examines systematic housing segregation in Chicago and its suburbs throughout the 20th century. The series illustrates how these policies not only shaped Chicago but also served as a model for other American cities. The next part is coming up January 16 at Oak Knoll Lutheran Church in Minnetonka. UUCM will be hosting the final episode Jim Crow of the North on February 4 from 6–8 p.m. Please click here to sign up and see the full schedule for the series. Each episode will be recapped for those who cannot attend all of them. Contact Sue Fust with questions. 

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People’s March Plan Update

SAVE THE DATE: A group from UUCM will be carpooling to The People’s March on Saturday, January 18, 2025.  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.
  • We’ll meet with other UU congregations on the grassy lawn east of the St. Paul Cathedral known as Cathedral Hill Park at 11:00-11:15 a.m.
  • 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.

Contact Virginia Carter with questions.

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Ridwell Reminder

We are starting the new year with great success in our first 9 months of Ridwell. Next featured items are EMPTY pill bottles with #5 on the bottom. Remove or black out personal info and leave lids on.  Bring those and any of our usual items (light bulbs, multi-layer plastic, plastic film, threads and shoes and clean rigid white styrofoam) in time for the prep party January 13 at 2:00. Contact Kathy (612-590-9606) or Sue (612-703-2297) with questions 💚