GNUUC Aids Walk Community Outreach Booth Oct. 5, 2019 September Share the Plate Nashville Cares
GNUUC has raised $2,196 for Nashville Cares, with their matching. Thank you GNUUC members!! Our volunteers at the GNUUC AIDS Walk community outreach booth were: Elizabeth Marlowe, David Frese, Charles S., Wendy S. Alexander, Nancy C., and Doug L.. (See booth photo.) Kristin and Nathanael R., and Kris T., assisted in preparing and organizing GNUUC materials for the booth.
The weather was perfect, with a lot of visitors to the booth asking about GNUUC and UU’ism, and with conversations with people staffing other organizations’ booths. Our gratitude to all who represented us there, as the Welcoming Community that we are, and as GNUUC, a Unitarian Universalist congregation.
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Sunday, October 6: 9:30 AM Youth Invited to Credo
Credo invites youth (and other visitors) to attend the discussion on October 6 at 9:30. We will discuss the Sunrise Movement which is a movement by you to get the older generations to work to save the planet.
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Share the Plate September: Nashville Cares
Great News !!! GNUUC has raised over $1000, so we have a booth at the Fair. With the recent Nashville Cares challenge matching, we have raised a total of $2,196 for Nashville Cares. Thank you GNUUC members!! Come visit our Fair booth, hear the musical entertainment. Open 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. (map of booth locations, follows).
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Share the Plate October: The Sunrise Movement
Our Share the Plate recipient this month is The Sunrise Movement.
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Mayoral Runoff Candidates August 18 NOAH Public Meeting
This Sunday afternoon, is the NOAH public meeting of the mayoral runoff candidates, 15th Avenue Baptist Church (1203 Ninth Ave North). Come hear what the two candidates, David Briley and John Cooper have to say about NOAH’s key issues: Affordable Housing, Education, and Economic Equity and Jobs. To carpool from GNUUC, gather near the main entrance, at 2:00 pm.
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The Urban Green Lab - August 2019 Share the Plate organization
“At Urban Green Lab, we teach communities how to live sustainable lives ... working to ensure all of us have access to sustainable living education ... a focus on classrooms, households, and workplaces -- places where culture begins -- transforming spaces into “labs” ... connecting institutions with services, and encouraging people to feel good about being part of the solution." Urban Green Lab - Kroger Compost Pilot, MNPS
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July Share the Plate with Planned Parenthood
Our Share the Plate partner for July is Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. Planned Parenthood's mission is to improve health and well-being by providing high-quality, nonjudgmental sexual health care, honest and accurate sexuality education, and reproductive health and rights advocacy.
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Roy Zimmerman sings "RiZe Up"
Roy Zimmerman brings his clever and timely songs to Nashville again. The topics are always current, and his slant on them is often devastating. Hear him Friday, July 12 at 7:30 at First Unitarian Church.
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Thanks from Americans United
Nashville Chapter Americans United for Separation of Church and State thanks you for sharing the collection plate. We came close to defeating school vouchers and will be vigilant next legislative session for attempts to expand them.
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NOAH Issues Convention Selects Education as New Problem Area
GNUUC was well represented at the NOAH Issues Convention, with 15 of us in attendance! Delegates listened to two-minute “pitches” for each of the ten proposed problem areas and then voted for the three problem areas for NOAH to focus its work on going forward: Affordable Housing, Economic Equity & Jobs, and Education.
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June Share the Plate: Highlander Research and Education Center
Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN, has trained generations of organizers in the labor, civil rights, and other movements working for social justice and human dignity. Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the U.S. South. Click to watch slide show!
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"Thank You" Immigration Workshop Participants and Attendees
Thank you to all the members, family, and friends who joined us for the “People as Populations, Politics and Prophets” workshop sponsored by the GNUUC Social Action committee.
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SIFE Hygiene Project Presentation
All students were appreciative of Greater Nashville UU’s efforts and donations for the SIFE Hygiene Project. They enjoyed the experience, gained knowledge they likely wouldn’t have without hands-on learning, and much appreciated the hygiene products.
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Announcing the Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition, the GNUUC May 2019 Share the Plate Organization
The Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice, defend their rights, and create an atmosphere in which they are recognized as positive contributors to the state. Please give generously to share the plate in May!
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May 9 - Save the date for NOAH banquet!
NOAH’s fourth annual banquet will be held on May 9
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April Share the Plate: SouthernersOnNewGround.org
The April Share the Plate is the Black Mama's Bailout Project. Thank you to everyone who helped us raise over $250 for the group!
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Coming of Age/Youth Group Social Justice Drive
We will collect donations will be collected through Sunday, March 31. Please place donations in the bin, in the social hall. You can give monetary or gift card donations in an envelope with "Oasis Center" on the front to a youth, Mary Early-Zald, or the Coming of Age teachers, Chris G., Ryan, or Susan.
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NOAH Launches Listening Campaign
For several years, NOAH member organizations have worked on three areas of concern in Nashville: affordable housing, economic equity, and criminal justice. These issues were identified through one-to-one conversations in a Listening Campaign and selected at the Issues convention in 2014.
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Tipping Point: Amazon and the Future of Nashville
All are welcome to attend a public Town Hall this Friday, February 15, at 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm) to discuss how Amazon’s entry into Nashville will affect the future of our city.
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February Share the Plate: Nashville Peace and Justice Center
The Nashville Peace and Justice Center is a community based coalition of organizations and individuals working to promote equity and to create a peaceful, just, and sustainable society through reflection, education, and non-violent action.
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