Boston 10-25: Standing together for Social Justice/FNB invited

Tom Boland (wgcp@earthlink.net)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 04:02:32 -0400 

Post below invites participants from FOOD NOT BOMBS:

FWD
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:08:30 -0400
From: "(Rev.) David Carl Olson" <commchurch@igc.org>
To: act-ma@igc.org = Peace Events in Massachusetts


     The Community Church of Boston (non-sectarian)

     STANDING TOGETHER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE


(Rev.) David Carl Olson, Minister and Leader
a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association

Sunday, October 25, 1998 at 11:00 a.m.
Community Church Center
565 Boylston Street, Copley Square

(REV.) DAVID CARL OLSON
"FIREFIGHTING, COMMUNITY ORGANIZING,
AND URBAN HIGH-RISK ADVENTURE"

special music by JIM BADGER

(Rev.) David Carl Olson is the Minister of the Church and Leader of the
Community at the Community Churchof Boston (non-sectarian) A music theater
artist, he is a member of Actors' Equity, former artistic director of Little
Flags Theater, and Associate Director of the Institute for Theology and
the Arts at Andover Newton Theological School.

David has been closely involved with the founding of the Greater Boston
Interfaith Organization (GBIO), and is working to encourage and assure
the highest turnout of area Unitarian Universalist congregations in the
upcoming convention.

As well, The Community Church has accepted a goal of turning out 30
participants to the convention:  20 to 25 members of our congregation,
and 5 to 10 allies from such organizations as Food Not Bombs, the
Gallery for Social/Political Art, and the Boston-area Guatemala
Committee.

In his presentation and in the sermon "talk-back," we will continue our
discussion of broad-based community organizing for PEOPLE'S POWER,
paying paticular attention to the roal organizations like the GBIO may
play in the struggle for social justice. In anticipation of the November
22nd Founding Convention of the GBIO, where nearly 100 congregations,
trade union locals, community development councils and neighborhood
justice organizations will meet to found GBIO and adopt its democratic
structures, CCB will organize its participation.

We hope that consensus will be built around beginning to pay our dues to
GBIO. All are welcome to join in the discussion.


Singer-songleader JIM BADGER will lead us in song, and present a musical
message from her extensive repertoire of songs for peace and social
justice.

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Concurrent with the morning service, our humanistic program for
children. Children's Program Acting Director Joan McDonald, visual
artist, educator and theologian, will continue a mask making project
for children of all ages.

Joan is providing leadership as our Parents' Council works with David
Carl Olson to envision and plan our children's program in a renovated
religious education space.
Please call us ahead at (617)266-6710 so that we may know your child's
name, age and interests.

Leave time to join us at our community luncheon prepared by chef Luis
Alonso Guzman and hosted by community church volunteers!


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For further information, please respond by e-mail (with at least a few
days lead time) or for more immediate response,
please call our office at (617)266-6710.

Visit our (under construction!) website at www.commchurch.org

In Copley Square, on Boylston Street
between Dartmouth and Clarendon Streets
Above the Small Planet Bar and Grill

By MBTA, 1/2 block from Copley Station (green line)
or 3 blocks from Back Bay/South End Station (orange line)

NOTICE:  Back Bay Garage no longer accepts parking vouchers
from area churches. Alternate arrangements are being investigated.

"The Community Church of Boston
is a free community of human beings
united for the study and practice of universal religion,
seeking to apply ethical ideals to individual life
and the democratic and cooperative principle
to all forms of social and economic life."

Join us--in our continuing work for justice and peace!

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