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HOT TOPIC, VIDAS

HOT TOPICS 
Presented by
Advocates for Social Justice

Vital Immigrant Defense Advocacy and Services provides low-cost and no-cost immigration law services, advocacy, and community education, as a non-profit law firm serving the North Bay with offices in Santa Rosa and Vallejo. Its services include conducting deportation defense and asylum cases and obtaining visas and legal residence for victims of trafficking and violence against women, and many other immigration law concerns.

Speaker: Maria Elena Valle, Outreach and Education Coordinator for VIDAS 

Please join us in the Board Room after the 11 am service.  Please note that we are on DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME TODAY!                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

FORREST UNLIMITED, A4SJ HOT TOPIC

HOT TOPICS 
Presented by
Advocates for Social Justice

Executive Director Rick Coates of Forest Unlimited will discuss the work of this long-standing Sonoma County environmental action organization whose mission is to protect, enhance, and restore the forests and watersheds of Sonoma County. Forest Unlimited educates the public about logging plan review, forestry law, and regulation, most recently by a series of talks at the Sonoma County libraries.

It addresses illegal and unsound logging, works toward improving logging rules, and provides information regarding current forestry law. Their Mentor Program staff provides information, legal support, and sponsorship to emerging grassroots neighborhood groups fighting destructive timber harvests and resulting environmental degradation in their neighborhoods.

Forest Unlimited sponsors forest restoration projects, gathering volunteer crews to plant 1600 redwood seedlings yearly, totaling over 32,000 trees planted in 23 years of continued restoration efforts.  It hosts a yearly dinner, to which all are invited, under the redwoods each June featuring noted speakers on timely topics such as fire ecology and reforestation and honoring the work and victories of dedicated activists and local grassroots groups.

Nuestra Fiesta 2019 Annual Auction Party

Our Annual Auction is the best opportunity we have all year to enjoy each other’s
company in a party atmosphere.  At the same time, it helps fund our mission
   at  UUCSR.  Be a part of making this a successful fundraiser!

For Details Go to: https://www.uusantarosa.org/connect/auction/
There you will also find useful tools:
Donation forms (one to print and fill out or one to fill out online and e-mail)
A Business Solicitation Letter with our Tax ID#
Volunteer opportunities and instructions for signing up.
An online volunteer sign-up form.
Our Auction Catalog as of February 14
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Do We Have to Forget if We Forgive?

Service Leaders: Rev. Chris Bell, Izzy Fischer,
Music by: Sadie Sonntag & the Choir, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Breakfast for our Neighbors

An exploration of forgiveness as a form of surrender and letting go, and the challenges in doing so. What if that which we are trying to forgive is something that we cannot forget, or which is still impacting our lives? The science of forgiveness as well as the teachings of enlightened teachers will offer some insights.

Love, Surrender & Letting Go

Service Leaders: Rev. Dara Olandt, Aphrodite Bellochio, Rev. Chris Bell
Music by: Robin Rogers & some musical UUs, Roger Corman
Share the Basket:  The Children’s Program of the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project.

It’s not always easy to know how to love ourselves, or others, and how to make fulfilling connections. Does “letting go” mean giving up? How can we transform some of the attachments and ways of being that constrict our relationships to self and others, and grow more deeply connected relationships? 

A Year of Surrender

Service Leaders: Rev. Bonnie Dlott, Sharon McCarty
Music by: Sadie Sonntag & the Choir, Roger Corman
Share the Basket: Forest Unlimited

The word “surrender” can bring up images of defeat or downfall, but is there also something life-affirming in surrender?  Today’s guest preacher faced a frightening health crisis in 2017 in which surrender played a major role in her survival. Join us today for reflections on the intersection of mortality, grace, and surrender.

Rev. Bonnie Dlott is a native of the Bay Area who served the Napa congregation for eleven years, retiring in 2017. Before being called to the ministry, she earned a doctorate in Biological Chemistry. She identifies as a nature mystic, finding the sacred in the natural world and in acts of kindness.

A4SJ FILM PROJECT: POWER AND CONTROL: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN AMERICA

movie camara A4SJ Film

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION, SANTA ROSA
ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM PROJECT PRESENTS: 

POWER AND CONTROL: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
New Day Films, Peter Cohn, Filmmaker

SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, 2019
Following the 11 AM service in the Board Room

Your Film Project has chosen to make the subject of domestic violence the focus of the fifth film of our current series. This 2010 documentary explores the causes of domestic violence and the solutions that have evolved to stop it, celebrating the activists who demanded change in the 1980’s and examining new alternative approaches that are now being advocated. This film introduces us to the “Duluth Model” and looks at the challenges from outside critics of this approach. We are reminded of the prevalence of domestic violence, whether it manifests in physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse and the silence that often surrounds it. An important subject and a well crafted exploration of it in this 50 minute film.

Discussion, as always, follows viewing of the film. Please bring whatever you wish to eat. We will offer a snack, not lunch.
Elaine, Cassandra, Mary Louise, Carol D., Dorris, Jeanie

                                                            

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, HOT TOPIC

HOT TOPICS 
Presented by
Advocates for Social Justice

As if affordable housing in Sonoma County was not scarce enough, the 2017 fires made it even worse. But Habitat for Humanity has launched amazing projects to respond to this catastrophe. Come hear from David Irvine, Habitat’s faith liaison, and from a burned-out resident who, with Habitat’s help, is rebuilding a home and a life. We will also learn how we can help.

Speaker:  David Irvine, Habitat’s Faith Liaison