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MLK Day of Service – Monday, January 16, 2012

– January 1, 2012Posted in: Events, News, Social Action, featured 2
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service is Monday, January 16.

The UU Suburban Kickoff for the UU MLK Day service activities will begin here at Thomas Paine with a Service at 9:00 AM. After the Service everyone will fan out to various service activities in the Norristown area. Sign-in and coffee hour begins at 8:30 am.

Service activites include:

  1. Mural-making (for children) and building upkeep (including painting) @ ACPPA, Norristown (Morning)
  2. Cleanup @ Coordinated Homeless Outreach Center, Norristown  (Morning) –  CANCELED
  3. Cleanup, inventory, and data entry @ Norristown Hospitality Center (12:30 pm start)

To register for a project, go to:  http://www.mlkphillyuus.org

Contact  Dorothy Tarka (dtarka@verizon.net) with any questions.

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Fellowship Cinema – Out in the Silence

– October 26, 2011Posted in: News, Social Action
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Friday, November 4 @ 7 PM

This documentary’s focus is on LGBT issues in small town Pennsylvania. This is a special screening of the film, Out in the Silence, that is not easily seen elsewhere.

The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson’s wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small hometown and a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school.

See more information at http://wpsu.org/outinthesilence.

Audio equipment for the hearing impaired is also available.
Bring a snack or beverage to share. Movie begins at 7:00 PM. Discussion to follow.

Go Purple on Spirit Day, Thursday October 20th!

– October 18, 2011Posted in: Events, News, Social Action
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Spirit Day is a day to wear purple and show your support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth and to speak out against bullying. The TPUUF Welcoming Congregation Team, the Social Action Committee, and the TPUUF Board invite each of you to wear something purple on October 20. Go purple and let someone know that you care! As a congregation, we are committed to this cause. Please join us.  We are a #SpiritDay 2011: Partner Congregation.

For more information see http://www.glaad.org/spiritday.

Millions of Americans wear purple on Spirit Day as a sign of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) youth and to speak out against bullying. Spirit Day was started in 2010 by teenager Brittany McMillan as a response to the young people who had taken their own lives. Observed annually on October 20, individuals, schools, organizations, corporations, media professionals and celebrities wear purple, which symbolizes spirit on the rainbow flag. Getting involved is easy — participants are asked to simply “go purple” on October 20 as we work to create a world in which LGBT teens are celebrated and accepted for who they are.

Fellowship Cinema – Frozen River – Oct. 7

– October 5, 2011Posted in: Events, Social Action
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Friday, October 7 @ 7 PM

Join us for another interesting topic; this one hits right in the heart of one of the Standing on the Side of
Love campaigns…immigration.

“Struggling single mother of two Ray (Melissa Leo) teams up with Mohawk reservation
resident Lila (Misty Upham) to make money by smuggling illegal immigrants through the New York-Canada border on reservation ground outside the U.S. government’s jurisdiction.” ~ Chicago Tribune

Nominated for 2 Oscars, and won 25 other awards and nominated for another 14.

Link to imdb.com website for more information about the movie.

Light refreshments and discussion following the film. Donations graciously accepted!

Fellowship Cinema – Seven Pounds

– September 1, 2011Posted in: Events, News, Social Action
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Friday, September 2

7:00 pm

Seven Pounds

Academy Award nominee Will Smith (2006, Best Actor, The Pursuit of Happyness) stars as Ben Thomas, a man at a crossroads. He embarks on a journey to help change the circumstances of seven strangers who deserve a second chance in life. But when he opens his heart to a beautiful woman who needs his help, he risks everything he’s planned for one last chance at love. From the director of The Pursuit of Happyness comes this “life changing  motion picture you will not easily forget.” – Pete Hammond, HOLLYWOOD.COM

 

Light refreshments and discussion following the film. Donations graciously accepted!

‘It Gets Better’ speaks to gay teens at risk

– October 15, 2010Posted in: News, Social Action
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In the wake of a spate of teen suicides, the video sharing service Youtube has hosted a series of videos aimed at gay/lesbia/bisexual/transgender youth who have been bullied by peers and adults and feel fearful and desperate.

What follows is one such video, of a councilman in Fort Worth, Texas, speaking to his personal experience and the power of love.

Fort Worth Councilman offer hope to youth struggling with their sexuality, Oct. 12, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

It Gets Better videos, Youtube

October’s Share-the-Plate partner: Traveling Mercies

– September 25, 2010Posted in: News, Social Action
October’s Share-the-Plate partner: Traveling Mercies

Traveling Mercies – www.travelingmercies.org

Montgomery County philanthropist, Aldo E. Magazzeni created October 2007 as a non-profit 501(c) (3) foundation. Prior to that Aldo performed volunteer service; since 1998, he has traveled to and worked with communities in Italy, Jamaica, Haiti, Mexico, South America, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Kenya, Ethiopia, and others.

Since 2009, Traveling Mercies has completed water projects in Herat Province, Afghanistan and partnered with Suraya Pakzad, founder and Executive Director of the Voices of Women organization in Afghanistan. Together, Aldo and Suraya have worked on women’s rights issues and building water systems, among other projects. For more information on Suraya’s projects, visit http://vwo.org.af/

Other activities include water-related projects in Kenya and Mexico, along with supporting a daily food and special education project and providing aid to the devastated earthquake victims in Abruzzo, Italy.

Aldo is indeed a truly unique individual and, through Traveling Mercies, is dedicated to serving the diverse needs of those in need.

Remembering Dr. King

– January 19, 2010Posted in: News, Social Action, featured 2
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At least 20 members and friends of Thomas Paine Unitarian Universalist Fellowship took part in the Martin Luther King Day celebration and day of service hosted by the Unitarian Society of Germantown.

More than a dozen took part in a refurbishing of the Boys and Girls Club on W. Penn Street in Germantown. In all, more than 30 people helped to clear a beautiful stage of mounds of clutter (including 41 computer monitors), to paint the auditorium, the office of club director Clarence Miller and the railing that climbed three floors in the lobby, and to organize a resource room that was cluttered with archival photos, educational material, and odds-and-ends.

The 20 volunteers from Thomas Paine is an unofficial record, and the USG event was the largest in their 10 years of coordinating the MLK Day of Service.

See photos from our day here.

Eyes Wide Open

– April 26, 2009Posted in: Events, News, Social Action
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The memorial remembering Pennsylvania’s war dead from the conflict in Iraq completed a three-day run at TP on Sunday, April 19. Read about it in this front-page story from the local paper, the Times-Herald.

For more photos, visit this flickr page. If you have photos you’d like to share and belong to flickr.com (It’s free, if you’re not already), upload the photos and add the tag “EWOTPUUF”. You’ll be able to see all the results here.

Fro a larger version of the video, visit our Facebook page

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Eyes Wide Open Memorial Exhibit April 18-19

– February 22, 2009Posted in: News, Social Action
Eyes Wide Open Memorial Exhibit April 18-19

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Eyes Wide Open Memorial Exhibit. Saturday & Sunday, April 18 and 19, 2009 at TPUUF.

The TPUUF Social Action Committee is presenting this exhibit in cooperation with St. James Episcopal Church.

Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, this traveling exhibit is a memorial to Pennsylvanian soldiers as well as Iraqi civilians.

The exhibit will be open to the public noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. An opening ceremony will be held at noon Saturday, with a roll call that evening at 7.

For volunteers. there will be a training from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Want tohelp publicize this event? Download this flyer and post in a public place or give it to a friend.

For more details about the AFSC, click here.

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