Posts tagged as:

report-back

A Report from New Orleans: 3 Years Later

Event info: Friday 27 June 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

“14 Hands, 7 Toolbelts, and 1 New Orleans Family: A Report Back from Post-Katrina Louisiana”
 
Did you know that, since Hurricane Katrina, Boston-area building trades people have made several trips to rewire and replumb flood-damaged homes on the Gulf coast?
In fact, a crew of seven local electricians, plumbers, and carpenters just returned from New Orleans’ [...]

Tagged as: community, New Orleans, race in America, report-back, service

Read more

“Bearing Witness in Darfur: Who Will Be My Sister’s Keeper?”

Event info: Thursday 29 November 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Sanctuary
6 Eliot St. (Across from the Monument)
Since her first visit to southern Sudan in 2001, Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, co-pastor of Jamaica Plain’s Bethel AME Church, knew that she wanted to stand in solidarity with the women of that country. She had served as a medical missionary during several [...]

Tagged as: Africa, economics, genocide, politics, report-back

Read more

The People Decide: Oaxaca’s Popular Assembly

Event info: Tuesday 11 September 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist, Sanctuary
For the last 15 months, a powerful popular movement in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has challenged the corrupt and repressive government of PRI Governor Ulises Ruiz. Journalist Nancy Davies, a resident of Oaxaca, has covered the rebellion and the rise of the popular assembly movement.
Nancy will [...]

Tagged as: democracy, Latin America, report-back, social movements

Read more

“Turning the Climate Corner” with Ross Gelbspan

Event info: Friday 4 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Friday, January 4th at 7:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist
6 Eloit St, Jamaica Plain, MA
The Global Warming debate has come into the national spotlight in recent years with many politicians and celebraties taking it on as their core issue. We constantly hear about new scientific evidence leading to the same conclusion about [...]

Tagged as: climate, environment, preparation, report-back

Read more