BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:650@redriveruu.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201108T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201108T110000 DTSTAMP:20201101T150747Z URL:https://redriveruu.org/events/adult-forum-november-2020-2020-11-08/ SUMMARY:Adult Forum - November 2020 DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom for our Adult Forum\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps ://zoom.us/j/91155497586\n\nMeeting ID: 911 5549 7586\nOne tap mobile\n+13 462487799\,\,91155497586# US (Houston)\n\nThe topic for Adult Forum during November is “Activists: People who Can’t NOT Lead.”\n\nAdult Forum\ , which currently meets via Zoom\, is planned and led each month by a diff erent AF member\, and November is Marion Hill’s turn.  “I’m an acti vist in a minor way\,” she says\, “and am fascinated by people who dev ote much of their lives to trying to bring important change in the world.   These individuals often have a strong religious faith that supports or guides (and occasionally pushes back against) their activism.  On the Sun days in November\, we’ll look at five such activists.”\n\nOn November 1\, AF will watch and discuss a video about the Rev. Dr. William Barber\, a Christian minister in North Carolina who leads Moral Mondays\, the Poor People’s Campaign\, and Repairers of the Breach\,  attempting to addres s what he terms “the interlocking evils of systemic racism\, poverty\, e cological devastation\, militarism and the war economy\, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.”  In this video\, Rev. Barbe r relates his lifelong mission for social justice to the upcoming Presiden tial election.\n\nOn November 8\, AF will watch and discuss a video about Sister Simone Campbell\, who since 2012 has led the “Nuns on the Bus” crusade to call attention to social issues such as the need for economic j ustice and immigration reform.  A practicing attorney who has focused on family law and the rights of the working poor\, Sister Simone often finds that her outspokenness on behalf of Medicaid expansion\, the Affordable Ca re Act\, LGBTQ rights\, and a humane approach to the issue of abortion pla ces her at odds with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.\n\nOn Novemb er 15\, AF will watch and discuss a video about the late Pete Seeger\, who used his platform as a popular folk singer to speak for unions and the pr otection of wetlands and against the arms race and the Vietnam War.  Alth ough he was raised with no religion and didn’t join a UU church until la te in life (joining then to get rehearsal space and because his mother had become a UU)\, he said that he had actually subscribed to UU values all h is life and those values inform his music.\n\nOn November 22\, AF will wat ch and discuss a video about Greta Thunberg\, the 17-year-old Swedish clim ate activist who gained international attention when she scolded a gatheri ng of world leaders at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit over their slowness in addressing the global threat of climate change:  “How dare you!” Thunberg told the U.N. attendees.  In this video\, Thunberg is interviewed about her laser-like focus on the climate issue\, her pare nts’ response to it\, and the way her activism relates to her Asberger-S yndrome diagnosis.\n\nOn November 29\, AF will watch and discuss a video a bout Archbishop Desmond Tutu\, who along with Nelson Mandela led the fight to abolish the racist policy of apartheid in South Africa.  For his work as chair of the Truth &\; Reconciliation Commission (charged with inve stigating past human rights abuses by both pro- and anti-apartheid groups) that Mandela appointed him to\, Tutu won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize.  Be sides leading in race relations\, he has also campaigned for gay rights an d the rights of women.  Although a much-honored official of the Anglican Church of South Africa\, Tutu blends Christian beliefs with black liberati on theology into a belief system he calls ubuntu (translated by him as rec onciliation or hospitality).\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Adult Forum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR