By the way item during a Meeting for Business discussion of COVID restrictions.
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Today's Ukraine War snapshot
Daily sampling of clips about the war in Ukraine
Youtube will generously supply readers with considerable additional content.
All the military perspectives are important. And where will peace ultimatelyh come from? And how much arms marketing will we have to hear in the meantime?
Monday, January 9, 2023
The 2023 Washington state legislative session opens TODAY, January 9 and Quaker Voice on WA Public Policy is There!
Meet the WA State Legislature: leg.wa.gov which opens it's 2023 session January 9.
Just kidding. The Legislature's website is a glorious trove of relevant info. It has rosters of legislators and committees, several schedules, ways to contact individual legislators or to send comments to a committee. There are also videos of all hearings and documents filed with bills. For anyone who wants to follow one or more bills, there are ways to sign up to receive alerts. RantWoman definitely does not expect anyone to absorb all this on the first visit, but does encourage anyone interested in legislative work to poke around and see for themselves and then to read on for state legislative advocacy Quaker style.
Readers who would rather dip a toe in gently, check out Quaker Voice on WA Public Policy
As in past years, Quaker Voice on Washington Public Policy will focus on three areas: Criminal Justice, Environmental Stewardship, and Economic Justice. The Quaker Voice home page has links for each working group. The links describe each working group in more detail. There is also info about current legislative priorities as well as options to sign up for email updates during the legislative session.
Save the dates
Quaker Voice will be holding a Zoom information session on Sunday, February 19—the day before Quaker Lobby Day (February 20)—to prepare for to lobby our legislators.
Sunday, January 8, 2023
Oh Wow. 2023 is the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington! Lessons from Bayard Rustin. Event Monday January 9
RantWoman cordially invites anyone new to Quakers or curious about Bayard Rustin's slice of the 1960-s era civil rights movement to an event jointly sponsored by Blind Pride International and Making Gay History.
Lessons in Advocacy from the LGBTQ plus Community: Bayard Rustin How differences strengthen Unity
You do not have to be blind, LGBTQ+, or Quaker to participate!:
Lessons in Advocacy from the LGBTQ plus Community: Bayard Rustin How differences strengthen Unity
Monday January 9th; 8:00pm ET
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Blind Pride in association with Making Gay History present this third in our series of conversations. BPI ally and Force to be reckoned with Debbie Grubb and Anthony Corona will present the life and work of Bayard and what we can learn from this incredibly fascinating Advocator, agent of Non-violent protest and the marks on the annals of history the leaves us all.
For 60 years, Rustin fought for peace and equal rights — demonstrating, organizing and protesting in the United States and around the world.
'Strategic Nonviolence'
In the summer of 1963, he was the main organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. On Aug. 28, speaker after speaker roused a crowd of 250,000, including the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., with his seminal "I Have A Dream" speech.
Rustin had less than two months to organize what was the largest demonstration the country had ever seen.
"As we follow this form of mass action and strategic nonviolence," he said, "we will not only put pressure on the government, but we will put pressure on other groups which ought by their nature to be allied with us.”
From his study of Mahatma Gandhi’s Soul Force to the march to his storied effect on the LGBTQ plus community Bayard has so much to teach us. Join us and share your thoughts on how our differences unite us and how we can take the lessons of Bayard and incorporate them in our advocacy going forward.
Sponsored by Making Gay History
Join the call:
Lessons in Advocacy from the LGBT Plus Community
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Friday, January 6, 2023
BONEY M Feliz Navidad
The calendar says we are colliding both with Dia de los tres Reyes and with Orthodox Christmas.
RantWoman is disappointed to learn that Putin's half-promised cease fire has not really panned out.
In the realm of wise men, okay mostly men, RantWoman is celebrating #January6Insurrection plus 2 years with deep gratitude for lots of very principled individuals without whose steadiness the country would be in much worse shape.
RantWoman offers this slightly out of context carol for the occasions.
and Merry Christmas America and Kevin McCarthy is the new Speaker of the House. May there be more wisdom about than RantWoman finds it easy to imagine.
Final vote
McCarthy 216 / 428
Jeffries 212 / 428
Present 6 / 428
Monday, January 2, 2023
Job Opening UFM Office Manager: First Applicant Screening January 13.
Job Opportunity: as edited and annotated by RantWoman
Heroic live human office manager who answered the phone when RantWoman first went looking via the Yellow Pages (the PRINT version; it was last century and RantWoman could still officially see) is retiring after many years of service to the meeting!
Bookkeeping and payroll will now be outsourced, and UFM is hiring a part-time office manager (12-16 hours/week). This position is the coordination point for communication within the Meeting. The office manager responds to inquiries and requests, schedules room rentals, prepares and disseminates written material, pays bills, makes bank deposits and posts income and expenses. Experience with office management, Microsoft Office, Google docs, QuickBooks. Self-directed, flexible. $24-26/hour, plus some benefits. Job description at Office Manager Job Posting
RantWoman definitely recommends reading the full job description.
RantWoman absolutely is not prepared to attest that ANYONE in the hiring process can wrap their minds around the term "reasonable accommodations," but is happy to speak both to what about the place STILL matters to RantWoman and considerations about when in an employment process to disclose one's disability.
No "Driver's License Required" YAY! Cien puntos as Little Sister would say.
Non-discrimination on the basis of disability. Ummmmm
Job site may present challenges for people with some mobility issues but RantWoman will NOT make assumptions about what would or would not work for any individual..
Apparently a previous staffer in the role had a severe vision impairment. RantWoman has NO strategies for fulfilling what she knows of vision intensive essential job functions and other parts of the role are not where RantWoman's gifts lie.
RantWoman also promises not to refer:
--one of the Blind Prayer warriors who is very friendly in a welcoming Southern way and needs to talk about Jesus all the time, but more because the technical skills needed are more of a lift than RantWoman would want to encourage her to reach for.
--A vehemently Catholic visually impaired former teacher from a Latin American country whose capacity to have a 30-minute argument in Spanish with another native Spanish speaker about alphabetization rules in an English-speaking office hopefully spared her the need ever to try to function in any office not adapted for people who are visually impaired.
--A person on the autism spectrum who REALLY LIKES TO FILE. That might be an asset for this job, but this person is even more sports-challenged than RantWoman and might not be able to accomplish socially lubricating conversation about professional sports.
That probably leaves plenty of people with disabilities who would have a lot to offer in this role.
In closing and probably NOT especially germane to this job posting, RantWoman has an earworm this week. The earworm is about turning all kinds of history and unpleasantness into a big dance party:
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Collection of Youtubes: Kyiv post on economy, Items from Beau and McFaul
RantWoman is not really taking point by point notes. RantWoman is simply collecting commentary she considers credible; concurrence with any specific point of view should not be assumed.
Kyiv Post interview Ukrainian born U of WY Professor
Kyiv Post interviews Mikhail Alexeev
Kyiv Post interview with VOlodymyr Logovsky
Vlad Vexler on history, Putin, what next
Vlad Vexler on collective responsibility
Beau on what the US is getting out of the war in Ukraine
Michael McFaul: how did we get here? Nov 2022
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