FUUSE Social Justice Committee Meeting of September 3, 2011
Present: Polly Friedrichs, J.B. Gardner, Marion Mengert, Bob Moore, Lorraine Petzky, Jim Webber, David Weber, Malcolm Wetherbee, Pat Yosha
We reviewed and reaffirmed the organizational approach we developed last year: the committee will meet monthly but individual members will pursue particular interests continuously. At the monthly meetings (on first Saturdays) members will be able to share thoughts, concerns, information, and announcements and to receive reality checks and suggestions.
Bob Moore will be the group's contact person on peace issues; Marion Mengert on attempts to mitigate the evictions of local persons and families who are behind in their property tax payments; Pat Yosha and David Weber will both work on the broader issue of statewide revenue reform. Frank Heffron will chair the committee with help from Pat and David.
The committee will make every effort to communicate more consistently and fully with the congregation as a whole than we did last year. We aim to maintain a bulletin board and to have at least a monthly table in the Parish Hall between the two Sunday services; we established a calendar that pairs committee members with specific Sundays during the fall and winter. Questions and suggestions from FUUSE members are always welcome.
On Wednesday Sept. 7 there will be a showing of "9/11: Blueprint for Truth" in the FUUSE Parish Hall at 6:30 p.m. This film offers an analytical engineering-based argument that the WTC towers were not caused to collapse by the planes but by planted explosives.
Coming events: 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a public, open-air reading of poems on public themes, will be held on the Town House Common on Saturday, Sept. 24, from noon til 4 p.m.
A meeting for current and prospective area activists on the state budget and revenue issues will be hosted by the Granite State Fair Tax Coalition at South Church in Portsmouth on Tuesday evening, September 27, from 6:30 to 8:30 (in the church building across the street from the church itself).
