Mark Your calendars: PNQM Fall Session. Sept 24-26 Is it Live? Is it Virtual? Stay tuned.

 

A screen reader accessibility fave (NOT!)
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This text is here so screen reader users do not have to do various technological contortions to read the text. RantWoman feels no obligation to reproduce the exact look.

QUAKER

FALL QUARTERLY MEETING

2021

Grieving and Dreaming

Gratitude Pain & Transformation

Inspired by the vision of Joana Macy's work

that reconnects facilitated by Mary Ann Percy,

Bellingham Friends Meeting and Tom Rawson,

Lopez Island Friends Meeting

Hosted by Bellingham and Lopez Island Friends Meetings

September 24-26, 2021

Demolition of University Temple United Methodist Church

 A church is ALWAYS more than its building. There will be worship space and much needed spac for social services and some kind of housing, hopefully on a different model than many tall places around it. Will be.

In the meantime an architectural treasure will disappear so something different can be reborn in its place.

KUOW Story about start of demolition / construction

Annual Black Quaker Lives Matter Report

 

BLACK LIVES MATTER BLACK QUAKER LIVES MATTER! Our Annual Summer Presentation to the Global Community Join us online, Thursday, 29 July, 7 PM!

 

 

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The BlackQuaker Project is excited to announce our virtual presentation, in partnership with Wellesley Friends Meeting, Black Lives Matter/Black Quaker Lives Matter!: Our Annual BlackQuaker Project Summer Report as part of the Wellesley Thursdays summer series.  Our outreach and in-reach ministry is dedicated to celebrating the lives and contributions of Quakers of Color worldwide and documenting and addressing their concerns. Founded on the Quaker principles of Truth, Peace, Equality, Community, and Justice, we are a transnational Quaker ministry seeking the Light in a dynamic and growing global community. Join us over Zoom on Thursday, 29 July, at 7pm, to learn about the recent activities and research of our team and our forthcoming three-year thrust for further representation of Quakers of Color in the Religious Society of Friends and the greater transnational community.     Facilitated by Dr. Harold D. Weaver, our talented young team will showcase our pioneering, ongoing work, with video and other presentations from senior research assistant Susan Spina, Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship (CPGC) summer interns Sarah Jennings and Charlotte E. McDermott, and video research assistant Cooper Vaughn. Topics include: A look at our ever-expanding Quakers of Color International Archive (QCIA) at UMass Amherst, which documents the contemporary experiences of Quakers of Color around the world, including Asian Americans, Palestinians, Indigenous Latin Americans, Africans, and African Americans. “Was Paul Robeson a Birthright Quaker?” An investigation into Paul Robeson’s African American Quaker ancestors, dating back to the 1700s. “Housing Structural Violence against African Americans.” Systemic violence in housing, leading to the current vast racial wealth gap in the USA. “Retrospective/Reparatory Justice among Quakers.”  A case for a major commitment of the Religious Society of Friends and an educational program to learn about it.

 

 

The Zoom presentation will formally begin at 7 pm EDT but will open at 6:30 pm for informal interaction. Please invite Friends, friends of Friends, and others interested in the struggle for racial justice against white supremacy. Further information on how to join our Zoom meeting will arrive in the coming days. Please reach out to us at theblackquakerproject@gmail.com with any questions you may have.         Consider signing up for our mailing list to follow our ongoing work, including the expanding Quakers of Color International Archive.  --The BlackQuaker Project Team

Fourth Saturday Worship ON HIATUS for July

The short version: Fourth Saturday Worship is ON HIATUS for July. RantWoman meansto check what the in-person options might be for August. Stay tuned but please also leave a comment if you have strong feelings either way about in-person, masked, 6' apart, with library ventilation worshippers have no control over. 

Having more people than would fit socially distanced in the meeting space historically used would be a good problem to have.

The Longer version, such ministry as offered accompanied by the fluffy purple chicken, offered for consideration

The Fluffy Purple Chicken and
the red metal mocha mug

Niyonu Spann on Advice to White Men (and other people?)

Or, for readers who just need some music:

Two Cuban Dances/Dos Danzas Cubanas - Ignacio Cervantes, arr. Paquito D'...

In Memory of RantDad and to all bassoonists everywhere Chôro na Clave de Dó - Osvaldo Lacerda

Chôro na Clave de Dó - Osvaldo Lacerda as performed by (Leo) Cai Quirk, bassoon, and Byung Hee Yoo, piano

This post is dedicated to RantDad, to his memory because he died on this date in 1995, and to a lot of bassoonists who have played on since then. 

Special acknowledgment to the oil company executive's wife and Billings Symphony concert mistress scouting long ago for bassoon talent at the University of WY the year he graduated from college, to an absolutely hideous first teeny tiny town public school job teaching 7 study halls and band, to the next public school job featuring four single teachers who paired up opposite to the way the town gossips predicted. 

RantWoman goes back and forth about whether both RantParents qualify as gender non-conforming: RantMom taught science and RantDad taught Music and English. RantWoman also remembers a conversation once where a friend commented "Any man could do that" about some home repair task. Um, no RantDad probably would have the sense not to try.

For more Cai Quirk creativity visit Cai's website

Fluffy Purple chicken, in lieu of wild dance party but with Francisco Mignone - Sonata No. 1 for Two Bassoons

What? NO purple chicken? How about cope with some nice bassoon music instead.

Thanks to the weird wild geographic wonders of Zoom randomized breakout rooms, RantWoman celebrates two lives whose passing in connected with her birthday. RantWoman has too many ideas to get them all done herself and some of the time manages to carry forth these Friends gifts while trying to cheerlead the next generation. 

Some of the time.

Ruuth. Quaker Honorary Auntie

Memorial Minute with Annotations

Mr. nasturtiums in Salad Friend

Purple Chicken Presente: Interest Groups in Collision

 

The Fluffy Purple Chicken
and the metal mocha mug

My elder is a purple chicken? Uhhhh, RantWoman, words, around humans? Why or why not?

For the record, RantWoman is extremely grateful an interest group about pastoral care is offered along with all the Quaker save the world offerings. RantWoman was not paying meticulous attention about possible time collisions when she specified a time for her interest group. 

RantWoman's interest group was well ehld and RantWoman is not clear to say more. And the Fluffy Purple Chicken's job here seems to be to advise RantWoman just to let the second iteration of  the pastoral care interest group occur before posting the long list of questions at least one inquiring mind wants to consider.

G-01. Disability Vocabulary Grab Bag

Dorene Cornwell

Dorene will bring a basket of terms related to disability and invite Friends to pick one or more and respond to worship sharing queries. This group is offered because one is needed about this topic, and offered in faith that those gathered will be well-led during the time together. For an introduction to this topic, please click
HERE. (Note: This group is also offered as B-01 on Friday 7/02 and K-07 on Friday 7/16.)

G-02. A Quaker Way of Providing Pastoral Care

Kate Jaramillo

(NOTE: This Interest Group was temporarily cancelled but is now available again. It is also offered as J-08 on Thursday, 7/15.) The principal interest of pastoral care is the personal welfare of those who are hurt, troubled, alienated, or confused. This suffering can be in the body, mind, or spirit. What exactly is "pastoral care"? Why is this a function of the Meeting? How do our Meetings provide pastoral care to our members and attenders? How do we Quakers care for each other throughout our lives? Are there any Quaker distinctives to our practice? How do we sustain ourselves in this challenging work of pastoral care? In this Interest Group we will discuss the fundamentals of pastoral care, our practices of pastoral care, and our ideas for improvement in our Meetings. It will be part lecture, part discussion, part small group activity. The hope is that you will leave with new learnings, enheartened confidence, and new ideas for the provision of pastoral care in your Meeting and in your life.

The interest group outline that came to RantWoman in recognition of this temporal juxtaposition

Interest Group Outline

Welcome and Worship

Introductions

   Name

  Meeting or Geography

   Any Access needs

  preferred pronoun(s)

  visual description of yourself and anything interesting about your surroundings

What rises when one notices that there are 24 people signed up for an interest group about pastoral care and 4 signed up for an interest group about disability?

When I think of disability and movements of Spirit I think...

My dream for people living with disabilities or growing up with disabilities in our Meetings  is

Something really hard for me about dealing with questions of disability is...

What draws you to this Interest Group?

The Scary Grab Bag of topics in the interest group description

Oh heavens! For once RantWoman is going to leave the large basket of questions on her mind for another time or fro browsing from RantWoman's many previous disability related offerings.

Purple Chicken Presente: Imaginary poets

 Look, if RantWoman doesn't get the purple chicken image plastered onto this post, RantWoman is still trying to center down for Annual Session and for another not entirely parallel event and for, eek, entering a new decade of life TOMORROW.

RantWoman is still channeling George Fox about walking cheerfully on the earth (digressions ALWAYS available about walkability) about walk cheerfully on the earth answering that of God in everyone. RantWoman still put on her socks that say HEART on the bottom of one foot and HOPE on the bottom of the other.

 RantWoman has lined up provisions for the cat who again thie year is probably grateful she does not have to endure Strangers visiting just to be fed.

RantWoman is sitting with what really needs to be said where about many themes.

But first we celebrate Witness Wednesday, again with faces growing more familiar, again with provocative prompts.

Alicia McBride will host our time together with the following prompt and query to guide our shared reflection.  

Prompt for Reflection

I try to get rid of what I learned,
I try to forget the way I was taught to remember,
And to scrape off the paint they used to cover my senses.

~ Alberto Caeiro, “The Essential”

Query: What are you ready to get rid of, forget, or scrape off to more truly see?

RantWoman arrived late and decided she needed to consult Google to worship in greater centeredness. RantWoman does not apologize for celebrating what she found:

Who is this Alberto Caeiro?

RantWoman will refrain for now from too many literary excursions. RantWoman in worship also refrined from going off about scraping away and seeing. In RantWoman's case scraping away WILL NOT HeHEL. RantWoman does not getto repent of vision loss. RantWoman is still trying for love and Truth. dition 

From Promo for The Complete works of Alberto Caiero

Here we finally see these poems as they ought to be seen… When I read Pessoa (in his own voice and in the voices of his heteronyms), what I am left with, rather than answers, or even questions, is a feeling, the embarrassment of a genuine sensation, one I might sheepishly call love.

—Tyler Malone, Poetry Foundation

A bilingual companion to The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa

The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro

Poetry by Fernando Pessoa

Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull CostaPatricio Ferrari

Edited by Jerónimo PizarroPatricio Ferrari

Here, in Margaret Jull Costa and Patricio Ferrari’s splendid new translations, are the complete poems of Alberto Caeiro, the imaginary master of the “heteronym” coterie created by the Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa. Pessoa conceived Caeiro around 1914 and may have named him loosely after his friend, the poet Mário de Sá-Carneiro. What followed was a collection of some of Fernando Pessoa’s greatest poems, grouped under the titles The Keeper of Sheep, The Shepherd in Love, and Uncollected Poems. This imaginary author was a shepherd who spent most of his life in the countryside, had almost no education, and was ignorant of most literature; yet he (Pessoa) wrote some of the most beautiful and profound poems in Portuguese literature. This edition of The Complete Works of Alberto Caeiro is based on the magnificent Portuguese Tinta-da-china critical edition, published in Lisbon in 2016, and contains an illuminating introduction by the editors, Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari, some facsimiles of the original Portuguese texts, and prose excerpts about Caeiro and his work written by Fernando Pessoa as well as his heteronyms Álvaro de Campos and Ricardo Reis, and other fictitious authors such as Antonio Mora and I. I. Crosse.

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Purple chicken Presente: So, how are your sex offenders?

 As previously noted the fluffy purple chicken at the bottom of this post is this year's visual motif for RantWoman's spiritual preparations for summer Zoomathons. The chicken will be assisting with several meditations. Some of the meditations may be composed sooner than they are posted for a number of different reasons.

Remembrances of Quaker gathering greetings past: So, RantWoman, how are your sex offenders?

MY sex offenders? Ok, which ones?

The ones from Meeting? 

The ones who lurk behind liability insurance clauses and insurance company best practices and police reports about sex offenders but not sex offenses?

The ones behind a serious organizational housecleaning and collaboration between the National Federation of the Blind (those OTHER blind people) and RAINN, on the agenda at the NFB National (Virtual) convention

Gambit article on NFB issues

DRAFT Resolution creating survivors fund

Interim Report of the Special Committee

Nfb.org survivors page

#NFB21 #StrongerTogether

NFB President Marc Riccobono's opening speech

NFB PResident Marc Riccobono closing speech which oddly says NOTHING about the topics above

There is a really nice 3-pronged approach reported in the business meeting RantWoman attended. RantWoman WILL check links above to refresh her memory.

Among the fun facts that stick with RantWoman: women with disabilities are 2-7 x more likely to be sexually assaulted than other women AND only 10% get helped. RantWoman acknowledges that it would be better journalism to cite precise source.

Oh HELL. RantWoman realizes that she will best be able to uphold business meeting process if she asks whether a couple documents can be posted on the Annual Session website AND writes yet another hopefully better distilled narrative about topical moments from this blog and asks for help holding business meeting process in the Light.. 

The ones who come up when frontline interpreters besides RantWoman mention secondary traumatization?

The paratransit driver from another jurisdiction who seriously skeeved out a blind professional and was later arrested for victimizing another passenger, an even more vulnerable adult?

The ones that must motivate tight vehement voices when a cyclical review of the NPYM child safety policy is discussed in more than one Meeting's Meeting for Business.

The ones in circles close to RantWoman that show up and make RantWoman's nerves go bzzzst  bzzzsst during said discussions in Business Meeting, the ones that are "hold in the Light / go talk to your counselor themes except when they're not because it's obvious other people in the room are swimming in related psychic streams?

The ones who come up in worship, one because someone whose job description included "mandated reporter" actually had to report something, and some in connection with a freaky pizza message.

One from Meeting came up in conversation recently with the words "..medical..." and care committee. RantWoman in the conversation where that one came up: "Good. I am glad the Friend has a care committee and glad you are on it and I don't need to know anything further.

Another one with ties to Meeting comes up in conversation a lot but not in ways RantWoman is clear to blog about.

The presumptive sex offender who came up about the mandated reporter just made RantWoman think oh what a lucky child who found an adult they could trust. That story will also make RantWoman check a couple things in the revised Child safety policy ... just because.

Here and odd digression: RantWoman thought the freaky pizza message issues should have settled down, but no. RantWoman recognizes that she is STILL peeved and resentful on testimony on equality and other  grounds: Freaky Pizza Message Friend previously felt entitled to tell RantWoman she had not heard God in a RantWoman message two other people had just expressed appreciation for and was unable to say anything that might take another try at hearing God. But Freaky Pizza Message Friend did not even want to interact with RantWoman about the freaky Pizza Message and such Light as has come to RantWoman comes secondhand. RantWoman would never say Freaky Pizza messages don't belong in Meeting for Worship; RantWoman would, though, have preferred different responses from more than one direction about the Freaky Pizza Messag, up to and including "RantWoman should just GO AWAY!" 

But really, never mind Freaky Pizza Message Friend. There are other ears in the picture.

That is a VERY good thing: Bill Cosby is out of jail. The 45th president remains at large. Brett Kavanagh is on the Supreme Court, and plenty of other outrages linger. 

Fluffy lavender chicken and
red metal powdered mil mocha mug

Update: How are MY sex offenders blind people edition,

RantWoman as co-chair of a statewide committee sent a summary with various links and a serious CONTENT / TRIGGER warning at the topic to the email list for theWA affiliate of ACB. RantWoman got back:

--one survivor story from long ago the author is willing to have RantWoman pass along anonymously

--several comments basically praising the whole process f0r very comprehensive effort and in a couple cases from people RantWoman felt safe to say briefly "this is why the whole subject makes RantWoman's head explode AND this is how planned measures should address the issues for the future.

Thank you for your service

This post was composed after the January 6 insurrection and before many gut-wrenching moments leading up to said individual's departure from power. RantWoman is dating it to retroactively partly to take her mind off another appalling national embarrassment leaving behind a whole nation needing to be held in the Light

As the #POTUS45 Sad Two Impeachments are better than one" presidential term winds down, RantWoman is sincerely seeking to put many matters in perspective.

This post brought to you by:

Brilliant democratic electoral strategists who somehow thought it would be possible to win the 2016 election while ignoring multiple whole entire midwestern states

Millions of sanctimonious but constitutionally illiterate liberals who began mumbling "why isn't this guy impeached yet?" almost before #POTUS45 was even elected.

Millions of peaceful protestors jamming airports at the beginning of the #POTUS45 term to protest all the executive orders banning Muslims from entering the country. Regretably, the Baby jails and family separation at the US Mexico border made immigration matters so much more horrifying.

The millions of people from all over the world who joined Women's marches the day after inauguration. and the torrent of #METOO revelations evoked jointly by #POTUS45 and Bill Cosby.

Tonight's homework at the Wonder Quaker in Training Virtual Academy: Please draft a "Thank you for your service" note for the outgoing occupant of the White House. Grading at the whim of the clerk. Seekers may be penalized for excessive sarcasm and abstruseness.

Thank you for the practice many Quakers may have needed using electron microscopes attempting to locat God in #POTUS45

Thank you for promoting bipartisan agreement: going forward let's make it easier for survivors of sexual assault to speak out and let's see what we can do to avoid electing serial rapists.

Thank you for promoting bipartisan agreement: all future Presidential candidates will be required to release their tax returns, to undergo financial audits of all business concerns.

From Latin America via Twitter: thank you for keeping the coup local due to COVID. Perhaps if you moved an American Embassy to Washington DC, the coup would have succeeded.

 This is a sad day.

Getting impeached once in presidential term is, um, an achievement. Getting impeached twice is WAY overachieving.

Purple Chicken Presente: Blessed Community? Bless your hearts community

The Zoom Machine
Retreat Elders

 RantWoman thought the Fluffy Purple Chicken upholding this meditation from below was only trying to curb RantWoman's capacity to procrastinate about some transit nerd "how is this project doing?: writing. Or perhaps the Fluffy Purple chicken is about helping RantWoman digest the many positives from her week Zooming with FGC. But no! RantWoman has threads from an even earlier retreat supervised by the elders above to comb out.  

First a couple of the threads RantWoman is feeling blessed about from the FGC gathering:

RantWoman thinks it was in a worship group. One Friend spoke of not seeing why it is necessary to keep talking about things that happened hundreds of years ago. Later a different Friend spoke of grappling with the fact that her family owned slaves in about 8 states and being sorry if that hurts someone else's feelings.

The same day RantWoman made some comment about a "blessed community" as opposed to a "Bless your Hearts community" in the Southern sense.

RantWoman appreciates the Friend who objected to this usage: No RantWoman does NOT mean to disparage everyone in the South especially when RantWoman is speaking a need for grace in any comminuty anywhere.

RantWoman will endeavor to think about other phrasing.

RantWoman will also wait until videos of the evening speakers to go from there to meditations on Trust circles in Baltimore Yearly Meeting and tools, space to talk about...

RantWoman will now let the Fluffy Purple Chicken preside over the raw undigested threads RantWoman scribbled in her drafts folder about the earlier retreat.

 

Fluffy purple chicken
plus metal mocha mug
plus desk clutter

got the workbook in time to read fast but not process

having things read to pull out bits 

blessed community vs  bless your heart community

open with reflection on state of US

nervous. If I speak too many times about disability will I just get excluded from future meetings.

put dolls up behind me instead of blur. So what if they can't really be seen in the Zoom

will chatter from screen reader get in way of what I am supposed to listen

reading the chat and savoring the messages even if that means I am ignoring the speaker

I feel the presence of God in SSFM

kids parents teachers

when people understand that even if I am not looking I am paying attention.

when someone besides me expresses the value of email lists that are not just announcements

relationship

belonging

I don't the F WANT to belong to everything there is out there to belong to. Sometimes the best I can do is decorum. Sometimes decorum is overrated.

comfort belonging

Aunt Alice and Uncle Jim

encouragement

seen or known: recent convo about pablo

risk and vulnerable

known had to rely on others

spontaneous compassion as opposed to spontaneous combustion

Woolman visited first nations

connections and weaving all things working together for good

bridging overleaping boundaries 

  prayer across differences

Has someone stopped you before you made a big mistake? Subtler redirection

Sense of presence / sacred covering

the freedom of forgiveness

glad I did this on computer and did not try on phone.

The peaceable kingdom painted 60 versions from Isaiah

blessed community like fungus connecting forest over miles

any order of scale is irrelevant we need it all

bees: I hate it when metaphors don't know much about the object of the metaphor like bees

some of the images not explained eg viusal unity of gospel choir

interesting that the jazz is all shadows

chris as oboe, another friend drum earnest middle schoolers

geopolitics of pipelines

choir because lots of people love to sing but a place where I am afraid to sing for fear of disrupting. I love music and a deeply respect people who actually rehearse. I myself can't carry a tune well and only sing when there is a pip organ around to drown me out.

gifts and growing edges for me are

how to use and take care of my gifts

WCB advocacy

I can help grow blessed community beyond SSFM by

yone in the South especialaly when someone is talking about . Far from it. 

Purple Chicken Presente Missed Interest Group: Four Friendly Foundations

RantWoman is very glad to see several Interest Groups which explicitly tend to community spiritual life. Centering and Discernment do not come automatically to RantWoman except when she tries to do social action without them.. RantWoman is going to have to consult the Fluffy Purple Chicken about whether just to blurt out that one cannot talk about any specific social action, campaign, public ministry (choose your terms)  and Quaker testimonies without also talking about practices that foster centering and discernment. 

RantWoman saw the following description but did not see the promo video until the Interest Group was over 

Presenter: Rocky Garrison, Bridge City Friends Meeting

The curriculum for a five-session adult education experience will be shared. The text is Brian Drayton & William Taber’s 2015 book, "A Language for the Inward Landscape." The focus is on four core tenets of the Society of Friends: (1) centering and discernment, (2) waiting and listening, (3) light and spirit, and (4) life and spirit of God. Education methods are worship sharing and worshipful discussion. For a video introduction to this topic,

The book "A Language for the Inner Landscape" goes on RantWoman's mean to read list.

Commentary via the Fluffy Purple Chicken

 

The Fluffy Purple Chicken advises RantWoman in this case to CHILL OUT. Remember that part about a versatile God that gets things done all kinds of ways?

But what if we can't talk about God? What if guided meditations...?

RantWoman, CHILL, just CHILL for now. Enough people think you are nuts already without getting advice from a fuzzy purple chicken. Work on TEAMWORK. 

Okay, okay.....

Green Energy and Human Rights Upcoming events

 RantWoman is extremely glad to knowWorld Without Genocide and  the Green Energy and Human Rights campaign exist. RantWoman hopes mention of here will inspire others to check out these events as well.

RantWoman apologizes in advance for any reads well with a screen reader but perhaps not visually effects.

July 6, 2021     In this issue News Update- Proceed With Care: Green Energy and Human Rights  Upcoming Event - Genocide, Cobalt, and Human Rights The Summer Institute for High School and College Students Legislative Update     Proceed With Care:  Green Energy and Human Rights  Jacob Simpson, Research and Advocacy Associate     Renewable energy is the only long-term solution to the climate crisis. Governments and businesses have poured billions of dollars into research and production for solar, wind, and hydro-electric power.  We need renewable energy - but we must be mindful of human rights challenges in green energy supply chains.  Let's use solar energy as an example.  Silicon is used to produce solar panels. China produces over 60% of the world's silicon, and most of this production happens in the Xinjiang region in western China.  This silicon production is being done by Uyghurs, a persecuted ethnic minority, under inhumane conditions.  In many silicon production plants in Xinjiang, state labor programs - including programs now facing U.S. sanctions because of documented human rights violations - employ Uyghurs to operate furnaces that run at temperatures of 2,200 degrees Celsius.  The Uyghurs performing these hazardous jobs are essentially slave laborers. Many Uyghurs fear threats of detention and violence if they try to leave these jobs.  Most of the world's solar panel supply depends on Uyghur forced labor. As the global demand for solar panels increases, so will China's continued exploitation of the Uyghurs. The same issues occur in producing batteries, wind turbines, and hydro-electric dams.  Renewable energy is critical for our future. We must make sure that our long term climate solutions protect and respect human rights.  Join World Without Genocide on Wednesday July 14, 7:00 pm CT via Zoom, to learn about protecting human rights in the green energy sector as we transition away from fossil fuels. Scroll down to register.      Solar Panel Installation      Genocide, Cobalt, and Human Rights Wednesday, July 14, 7:00-9:00 pm CT via Zoom.​     World Without Genocide will hold a webinar about the imminent threat of genocides as a consequence of the increasing perils of the climate emergency. The program also examines the unintended consequences of human rights abuses in the global south as green energy replaces fossil fuels.  The program features lawyers and advocates who examine how to prevent genocide and human rights abuses while transitioning the global economy toward renewable energy.  $10 general public, $5 students and seniors. ‘Clock hours’ for teachers, nurses, and social workers. Free to Mitchell Hamline students (diversity credits available). $25 for 2 Elimination of Bias CLE credits for Minnesota lawyers (pending). Space is limited; early registration is required.​ This is a live webinar and a recording will not be made available.     Click here to register.     The World Without Genocide Summer Institute August 10-12, 2021, Via Zoom     This annual three-day institute will examine the use of incitement to create hate and violence against vulnerable minorities during past and present genocides; how to find and promote truth; and strategies for protection, intervention, justice, and peace. The program is open to students throughout the US and elsewhere.  Applications are due by July 26.

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