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All Forums are held on Sunday morning, 9:30-10:45 a.m., in Room M-108. Reservations not required. Just show up! ________________________________________________________________________ March 21, 2010 We Shall Remain: Utes and Navajos At the 2009 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly, which was held in Salt Lake City, delegates learned that the American Unitarian Association was one of the Protestant denominations that accepted the request of the United States government to take over the management of American Indian reservations and agencies. Four Unitarian ministers were assigned to work with the Utes at two agencies within their reservation. Their mission was to "meet the Indians in a humane, Christian spirit, saving them from trickery, robbery, intemperance, and other vices of frontier life: and to present to them the better phases of a Christian civilization." (See more in the Winter 2009 issue of the UU World.) Our video presentation will highlight the histories and current situations of the Utes and Navajos in productions made for the local Utah PBS airings of the national We Shall Remain series. ________________________________________________________________________ March 28, 2010 East Shore Partner Church Ministries The forum program will provide a history of the UU Partner Church Ministry program from its start 20 years ago to the present. Both Partner Church Ministry Teams, the Khasi Hill and Torockószentgyörgy, will present information about their team's partner church activities. The presentation will include slides of partner church activities. ________________________________________________________________________ April 4, 2010 Easter Sunday There will be no forum on Easter Sunday. ________________________________________________________________________ April 11, 2010 The Estufa Finca Stove Project This project is a partnership between SeaChar.Org, a Seattle based, grass-roots non-profit and Sol Colibri Coffee. Their goal is to provide safe, clean-burning and fuel-efficient cook stoves to the migrant labor population, who each year harvest the coffee and cocoa crops in Costa Rica. Respiratory death is the leading cause of death among the women and children of this vulnerable indigenous population. This is caused by poor indoor air quality, due to cooking fires. Using technology developed in Seattle, organic coffee grower Arturo Segura (Sol Colibri Coffee) and the members of la Alianza (the Alliance of Organic Family Farmers of Costa Rica) will be working with a local Costa Rica Women's Co-op to produce and distribute these life saving stoves. Learn more about this project from Art Donnelly of SeaChar. The coffee you are enjoying each Sunday at our coffee hour is helping to fund this work. ________________________________________________________________________ April 18, 2010 Unnatural Causes: When the Bough Breaks This episode of the PBS series looks at why African American infant mortality rates are still more than twice that of whites. African American women with graduate degrees face an even greater risk of delivering pre-term, low birth-weight babies than white women who didn't finish high school. In this medical detective story, researchers hone in on how the burden of racism through the life-course can be an added risk factor. ________________________________________________________________________ April 25, 2010 On Television: Teach the Children Children 6 - 11 spend more time watching television than they do in a classroom. Teach the Children, is the first film designed to help teachers, parents and students scrutinize television's hidden curriculum. Intercutting clips from Saturday morning cartoons, sit-coms and music videos with commentary by critics, scholars and network executives, the program explores the values TV communicates and the role models it provides. The primary lesson of television's ads, product-based cartoons and insistent stress on fashion and conspicuous consumption is "you are what you buy." Other staples of the TV curriculum are sex, violence and anti-intellectualism. Research shows that this contributes to aggressive behavior and diminished cognitive skills. _______________________________________________________________________ East Shore Unitarian Church |