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Showing posts with label Religion Unitarian Universalists. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 19, 2017

Screening of the film "13th" to be exhibited at the Carroll Arts Center Feb 19, 2017, 4:15 - 7 p.m.



Screening of the film "13th" to be exhibited at the Carroll Arts Center Feb 19, 2017, 4:15 - 7 p.m.

Scheduled: Sunday, February 19, 2017 4:30 pm

Cost: FREE

Location: The Carroll Arts Center, 91 West Main Street, Westminster, MD, 21157 View Google Map

The Cedarhurst Unitarian Universalists will present a screening of the documentary film “13th,” tomorrow - on Sunday February 19th from 4:15 - 7 p.m. at the Carroll County Art Center, according to CC NAACP Branch 7014 member Maria Warburton.


Here is link to the film's trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V66F3WU2CKk

According to the Carroll Arts Center website, “Ava DuVernay’s award winning documentary “13th” refers to the 13th amendment to the constitution that banned slavery but left a loophole permitting the use of involuntary servitude to be used as a punishment for crime.

“In the aftermath of the Civil War, this clause was exploited allowing the incarceration of African-Americans for minor crimes.

“Using archival footage and testimony from an array of activists, historians, politicians and formerly incarcerated men and women, DuVernay shows the progression of the abuse of this clause in the 13th amendment since the end of the Civil War until today.”


Free admission. Doors open at 4:15 pm and showing time is 4:30 pm. A brief panel discussion will follow the film.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

20080615 Creating a Jubilee County: 35th Blog Carnival of Maryland & Happy Father's Day!

Creating a Jubilee County: 35th Blog Carnival of Maryland & Happy Father's Day!

June 15, 2008

"Creating a Jubilee County: Prince George's Co., MD"

has posted:35th Blog Carnival of Maryland & Happy Father's Day!


Carnival of Maryland Hosted by Maryland Blogger Alliance of which this blog is a part.

My post from Prince George's County for this article is Change is in the air... something you can always count on. Changes include Jews & Muslims finding common ground, other local news stories, an upcoming national March for Change, and an alternative to driving with these higher gas prices. Feel free to check this entire blog while you're visiting by clicking on [info]prince_georges. Here are the entries for today's carnival:

Check it out here: 35th Blog Carnival of Maryland & Happy Father's Day!
And also check out her work at: http://uu-mom.livejournal.com/ and her video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wezp1W2HKlU


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20080615 Creating a Jubilee County: 35th Blog Carnival of Maryland & Happy Father's Day!


Sunday, November 19, 2006

20061118 Repeated violations shake Cedarhurst Universalists

20061118 Repeated violations shake Cedarhurst Universalists

Repeated violations shake Cedarhurst Universalists

BY Diane Reynolds, Times Staff Writer Saturday, November 18, 2006

"The best way to fight this is to have the community condemn it," (Rev. Henry Simoni-Wastila) said.

(Rev. Henry Simoni-Wastila) quoted Booker T. Washington: "I will let no man take me down so low as to let me hate him."

FINKSBURG - The meditation garden, built by the church's youth group, is quiet now, layers of fallen yellow leaves muffling sound.

A brightly painted peace pole in the garden, made by the congregation's children, shines in the morning light.

But the memories of the peace pole's desecration, swastikas scrawled on tables at the sanctuary's entrance and BB gun shots through the church's windows have sent a chill of fear through the congregation.

A spider web pattern of cracks caused by a BB remains in the one window that has not been repaired.

For a period of several weeks from late August into September, the Cedarhurst Unitarian Universalist Association's church in Finksburg was repeatedly vandalized.

[…]

"The best way to fight this is to have the community condemn it," he said.

Simoni-Wastila came to two Westminster Ministerium meetings to gain support, said Tim Thomas, president of the Westminster Ministerium, a consortium of local churches.

"Everyone was of one accord in wanting to condemn any kind of violence and vandalism," Thomas said.

The ministerium also wanted to affirm Simoni-Wastila personally, Thomas said, and give him encouragement.

The Rev. Dan Knight, pastor of First Church of God of Westminster, agreed.

"My heart goes out to Henry as one member of the clergy to another," he said.

[…]

(Rev. Henry Simoni-Wastila) quoted Booker T. Washington: "I will let no man take me down so low as to let me hate him."

[…]


Read the rest of the article here: Repeated violations shake Cedarhurst Universalists

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2006/11/18/features/religion/religionhatehitschuch.txt