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SUMMARY:UU's Together: Leading with Love! Saturday March 22nd 10am-4pm Join us!
DESCRIPTION:UUs Together is delighted that our local leaders (including Rev Randy) are gathering us up right here at UUCC for “Leading with Love” on Saturday March 22 from 10am-4pm. We need each other in these fraught times\, and our leadership has structured a “whole person” gathering so we can draw sustenance and build power. Here’s the description of the day:Community Day facilitated by your local CER/UUA staff from 10am – 4pm.Lots of connection with your UU neighbors facing the same world you are.Agenda: \n\n\n\n\nWorship with local UUs\, led by CER staff.\n\n\n\nLearn More about Our Shared Values: What UU touchstones can we bring to these times? What parts of our theology do we need to explore and grow?\n\n\n\nLunch and Connect: Nourish your body while connecting with folks from neighboring congregations.\n\n\n\nTwo Workshops to Choose From: What are these times asking of us as UUs\, and what skills and practices will we as leaders need to respond? How do we (re)build communities of joy that help ground us?\n\n\n\nTheological reflection time in small groups: Which of our shared values is your congregation wrestling with? What can you share and learn from your neighbors?\n\n\n\nFraming for Next Steps: Staying centered and connected as we move together into the future.Everyone is welcome! Board and committee leaders\, parents\, children\, youth\, young adults\, staff members\, religious professionals\, ministers\, and any committed and engaged folks who love Unitarian Universalism and might not have formal roles. Childcare will be available (register by March 8!)\, with some light\, playful programming to help connect UU children and youth with one another and with the wider community.Registration deadline is March 15. Don’t leave registration for the last minute! Timely registration is important to ensure that our event can take place as planned.\n\n\n\n\nUse this link to register: https://uua.wufoo.com/forms/q1pm44521kw7rmr/ \n\n\n\nThe registration is confusing. When you get to this spot\, click on the In Person button\, and a drop down will appear\, so you can register for March 22 \n\n\n\nOur next UUs Together meeting will followup on this important experience\, and extend our connections and our values into the future. Join us virtually on Monday March 31st at 7pm for UUs Together.
URL:https://uucleveland.org/uucc_event/uus-together-leading-with-love-saturday-march-22nd-10am-4pm-join-us/
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SUMMARY:Compelling panels and skills trainings for justice
DESCRIPTION:Mark the date. Click here to read about the compelling panels and skills trainings at IRTF’s annual Social Justice Teach-In on March 22 at Cleveland State University. Save your spot today! \n\n\n\n2025 Liberation Lab: Chaos or Community \n\n\n\nSATURDAY\, MARCH 22 2024\, 11am–4pm \n\n\n\nCleveland State University College of Law \n\n\n\n1801 Euclid Avenue\, Cleveland\, Ohio 44115 \n\n\n\nInfo and registration: tinyrurl.com/irtf25lab \n\n\n\nThe InterReligious Task Force on Central America (irtfcleveland.org) is pleased to announce that this year’s Liberation Lab (aka Social Justice Teach-In) will be held at the Cleveland State University College of Law with a day of plenaries and skill shares hosted by IRTF and CPAC (Cleveland Palestine Advocacy Community). Each year for the past 25 years\, this event has been an informative and educational teach-in for northeast Ohio’s students and justice-minded community members\, thanks to the generosity of our event co-sponsors. (Many thanks to the organizations and individuals listed below.) \n\n\n\nLOCATION \n\n\n\nCleveland State University College of Law \n\n\n\n1801 Euclid Avenue\, Cleveland\, Ohio 44115 \n\n\n\nSCHEDULE and PANELS \n\n\n\n11am….check-in and welcome \n\n\n\n11:30….Choosing Liberation over Nationalism \n\n\n\n1:00……Embodied Sanctuary \n\n\n\n2:30……Wisdom from the Future: Student Organizers \n\n\n\nSKILLS TRAINING (runs simultaneously 1:00-2:15pm) \n\n\n\nDe-escalation training \n\n\n\nThis 75-minute session will train community members in how to de-escalate conflicts they face in the community and as they stand in solidarity with others. Participants will learn specific techniques to use and will practice these techniques in role plays based on real life situations. Presenter: Cleveland Mediation Center \n\n\n\nSKILLS TRAININGS (run simultaneously 2:30-3:30) \n\n\n\nKnow Your Rights \n\n\n\nEducating people who attend direct actions about their legal rights to protest and the limits of those rights so that they may make educated decisions about when and how to exercise those rights. Covering issues around planning a protest\, preparing for a protest\, and attending a protest. \n\n\n\nLegal Observer training \n\n\n\nNational Lawyers Guild (NLG) Legal Observers (LOs) document police misconduct and First Amendment violations at protests and direct actions. LOs are not part of the demonstration. LOs observe and document interactions between law enforcement and demonstrators in anticipation of future civil or criminal litigation under the direction of NLG attorneys. NLG Legal Observers do not negotiate with law enforcement\, provide legal advice\, or serve as peace marshals. Though NLG Legal Observers are typically law students\, legal workers\, and lawyers\, trainings are open to everyone—EXCEPT those working for or with government or law enforcement agencies. Legal Observer trainings are also closed to the media. Presenter: Cleveland State University College of Law NLG. \n\n\n\nPANEL DESCRIPTIONS \n\n\n\nChoosing Liberation over Nationalism \n\n\n\nChoosing Liberation over Nationalism \n\n\n\nIn our current national struggle\, we seek to uproot the root of religious nationalism. \n\n\n\nWhat are appropriate ways to bring our faith into our activism? \n\n\n\nWe can look to many historical examples\, from the role of Liberation Theology in Latin America to Mohandas Gandhi in the liberation of India. Christians and Jews are calling for an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories and the liberation of the Palestinian people. \n\n\n\nPanelists will present historical contexts to better understand current political events. They will reflect on their own experiences. \n\n\n\nPresenters: Akshai Singh (Hindu nationalism)\, Sara Fadlalla (Cleveland Palestine Advocacy Community and Cleveland Sudan Network)\, Tommy Airey (former evangelical Christian now committed to radical discipleship)\, Rev. Reegie Bunch (Senior Pastor of Fifth Christian Church)\, Mara Layne (Jewish Voice for Peace). \n\n\n\nEmbodied Sanctuary \n\n\n\nWhat does sanctuary mean to you? How do we create a sanctuary for ourselves to stay grounded\, sustained\, nourished and rested as our most authentic and beautiful self? What does it mean to embody the work of liberation? How can that help us be sanctuary people for one another? \n\n\n\nWhen we say: “We keep each other safe\,” or\, “We take care of ourselves\,” what does that mean? How does that become tangible? \n\n\n\nHow do we assess our risks AND continue to take brave and courageous actions? What does this mean individually and as a collective of interdependent beings? \n\n\n\nWhat would it mean to rid the self of the need to dominate\, “be right\,” or “to win”? \n\n\n\nHow are we meeting this moment and refusing to allow each other to go uncared for in the face of these death machines? \n\n\n\nWhat is our relationship to land/reparations? How does this relate to our bodily autonomy? \n\n\n\nPresenters: Paul Edward Montgomery Ramirez (Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance)\, Dara Adkison (TransOhio)\, Suncere Shakur (Mutual Aid Disaster Relief)\, Tori Hamilton (immigration attorney) \n\n\n\nWisdom from the Future: Lessons from Student Organizers \n\n\n\nHow are today’s students making the interconnections of struggles? What organizing tactics are students using today? What new things are being brought to the movement? What concrete obstacles do they face at their institutions? What repressive experiences are they having? How are they transforming this trauma? Is there any silver lining to the repression and oppression they are experiencing? How can community residents become better allies? \n\n\n\nPresenters: to be announced \n\n\n\nLUNCH (included with registration fee): vegetarian and vegan. To minimize trash that goes to the landfill\, we will use compostable cutlery\, cups and plates. Thank you to Rust Belt Riders for helping us out! \n\n\n\nRESOURCE TABLES \n\n\n\nFAIR TRADE SALES support collectively-owned and democratically-managed cooperatives in Latin America\, providing vital income to artisan and farming families.
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