Keynote Speaker: Representative Byron Rushing
Followed by a Panel Discussion with Local Homeless Services Providers Local Legislators Have Been Invited to Share Remarks
The crisis in family homelessness is escalating rapidly. Every night in Massachusetts, 2,000 homeless families are in shelters and more than 1,000 stay in motels. Thousands more are doubled or tripled up in others’ apartments, moving from one location to another.
Hear the Vision for a new system, where shelters are used only for emergency transitions and everyone has a permanent place to live.
See How that Vision is being implemented despite crushing budget cuts.
Learn How Congregations & Congregants can become involved in programs to help end homelessness.
Social Action Forum: Housing and Homelessness -- Universalist Unitarian Church of Haverhill 978-372-5173. Guest Speaker: Leslie Lawrence, Associate Director Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless. This forum is designed to provide an overview on housing and homelessness and the challenges we face in the coming year as well as the unique rolls faith communities can play in raising awareness and taking action. There will also be a discussion on levels of social action and how to engage faith communities more deeply. Co-sponsored by the UU Church of Haverhill and UUMassAction. All are welcome.
Help us celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and advocate for human rights in the workplace at our Workers' Rights Board hearing
Hear testimony on workplace issues and challenges from immigrant workers and workers' rights experts
Workers' Rights Board members:
Rev. Peter Morales, president, Unitarian Universalist Association
Giovanna Negretti, executive director, Oiste
Rabbi Barbara Penzner, Temple Hillel B'nai Torah
Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast director, Amnesty International USA
Distribute "energy justice" information at local hospital. Another annual tradition. We provide low-income people with basic information about energy issues. Including information about fuel assistance and energy conservation.
Distribute "energy justice" information at local hospital. Another annual tradition. We provide low-income people with basic information about energy issues. Including information about fuel assistance and energy conservation.
Distribute "energy justice" information at local hospital. Another annual tradition. We provide low-income people with basic information about energy issues. Including information about fuel assistance and energy conservation.
Joe Finn, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance, and Tom Washington, Director of Community Relations of Father Bills & MainSpring will describe the work of their agencies to insure that homelessness does not become a permanent part of the social landscape even as they struggle to address the burgeoning numbers of newly homeless individuals. Learn about the scope of homelessness in our area, and how you can help them address this crisis. All Souls Church, Unitarian Universalist, 196 Elm Street, Braintree. www.allsoulsbraintree.org.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
A theater event to benefit the
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
Dear Nancy,
See the theater event of the holiday season! The Coalition has just reduced the prices on tickets to the December 6th performance of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, so purchase tickets before they are gone!
On Saturday, October 25, 2008, UUSC will cosponsor a Walk for Literacy organized by Barakat to raise funds and awareness for Barakat’s literacy programs in Afghanistan. According to UNICEF, only 18 percent of Afghan girls and young women aged 15-24 years are literate. Sometimes this means just being able to write one’s name.
Proceeds from Barakat’s Walk for Literacy will support home-based literacy programs, which reach more than Afghan 750 girls and women.
The walk begins at 9 a.m., in Sennott Park, near Central Square, in Cambridge, Mass. Registration begins at 8 a.m.
