Riverside-Salem UCC/DC

January – February, 2008

Program Schedule

All programs from 4-6 p.m. Sundays at the Cottage (3449 West River Road, Grand Island), unless otherwise indicated. Other events of interest in italics.  For information/confirmation:  773-1426 (June) or www.riversidesalem.org

Jan. 6              BUSINESS MEETING [Epiphany] & Discussion of organizing in faith            communities,                            particularly UCC/DC, to help pass the Time to Care Act (Paid Family Medical Leave                           Act) in New York State (A.1301/S.1501).

Jan. 12                   Erie County and the City of Buffalo will again be hosting a post-holiday electronics and                                                    textile recycling event from 9-1 at the Buffalo Zoo parking lot (Parkside & Jewett).

Jan. 13                        DVD on Abu Ghraib and beginning discussion on the concept/nature of Evil

Jan. 17                   Network of Religious Communities Annual Meeting, Temple Beth Am, 4660 Sheridan                                                     Drive, Williamsville.  $25 per person.  Information/reservations:  882-4793.

Jan. 20                        We will continue our discussion of Evil, focused by the writings of Hannah Arendt’s                                  1963 book, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil.”  

Jan 21-23                An Interfaith Dialogue on Religion and Violence: Untangling the Roots of Conflict,” Trinity                                                 Episcopal Church, 461 E. Main St., Hamburg. The registration fee is $25. Info:    https://www.trinityhamburg.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=76&Itemid=106

Jan. 27                        Discussion of Milgram’s Yale Experiment and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison                                      Experiment and what they might lead us to know/say about ourselves and                                                 our capacity knowingly to harm others.

Feb. 3              ANNUAL MEETING (Business + Election of Officers + Adoption of Budget)

Feb. 10                        Barbara & Angelo LaDuca, “Our Philosophy of Traveling, in Particular, to                                       New Zealand” (which they did last September)

Feb. 17                        Elea Mihou, “New Vision/Direction for the WNY Peace Center.”  Elea, the new                                    Director of the Peace Center, has a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from UB                                           and worked in mental health in Cincinnati and for the Northern Kentucky                                              University Department of Multicultural Affairs.  She founded and built a                                                   multiracial student organization that worked for reconciliation in Guatemala and                                     sanctions on Iraq (before the war).  We welcome Elea and hope to learn how we can                               support her work.

Feb. 20                  UB Green Office holds Town Hall meeting on UB Green Climate Action Report at                                                 Unitarian Universalist Church on Elmwood in Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Feb. 24                        Marjorie Buscher, Traveling to China (last October)

March 2            BUSINESS MEETING