UU Team helps with Habitat for Humanity Build

Volunteer crews from the UU Church participated in two build dates for Habitat for Humanity in June and July. Over these two dates, church members built a handicapped ramp, installed doors, painted woodwork, installed blinds and other fixtures, caulked around sinks and bathtubs, and did multiple other jobs in helping finishing the house for Towanda Frazier and her family. Thanks to these UU members who were part of these crews: Anne and David Sharpe, Charlie Boast, Charlie Wisseman, Dara Purvis, David Wolfe, Geoff Levin, Jeff Watts, Kathleen Robbins, Nicole Tami and her brother, Tullio, and father-in-law, Kosta, Pat Nolan, Roch Ducey, Sandy Hannum, Shawnda Fuller, Steve Troyes, Teresa Jones, Tim Schreiber, and Sandy and Joe Finnerty. The photo shows some of our crew on the front porch of the home. Habitat is building two more houses this summer and fall, so if some of you would like to participate in these builds, please contact me for information.
Jim Hannum
Social Action Committee

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Check out the following community events and activities if you are interested in social action issues. These are not sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church but are activities that promote the ideals of the church.

Would you like to stand up for peace?
Join AWARE (Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort)'s monthly peace demonstrations
The first Saturday of every month, 2-4pm in downtown Champaign, on the corner of Main and Neil streets.
New faces are always welcome!

C-U Coffee Party Summer Film Festival at Channing-Murray,
1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana, IL
Saturday, July 23, 2011
3pm-6pm with potluck intermission

Film: The Corporation -- explores the nature and spectacular rise of
the corporation, the dominant institution of our time. Taking the
corporation's status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion,
the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask,
"what kind of person is it?" Including interviews with 40 corporate
insiders and critics including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton
Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore, plus true
confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

Film: Inside Job
Sunday, August 14, 2011
2:30pm

Film: Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Sunday, September 18, 2011
2:30PM

Islamophobia
Manufacturing the “Muslim Menace”
Public Forum
Thursday July 14th, at 7:00pm
Champaign Public Library
Robeson rooms A+B
200 West Green St., Champaign IL 61820

Speakers include: Matt Niemi, and Ola Moshref of CMIC the local Mosque,
Stuart Levy of AWARE, Eric Heim of the ISO, and Raad Ismail.

This program will explore how the war on terror impacted the Muslim, Arab, and
South Asian populations in the U.S., and the efforts of the Federal government
to isolate, harass, and intimidate American Muslims in the name of “Homeland
Security”. Entrapment and dramatic media-assisted raids have allowed the
government to present a picture of the American Muslim community as a
breeding ground for dangerous terrorists. Subsequent, often questionable,
prosecutions have led to some convictions, some charges being dismissed and some accused
accepted guilty pleas to dramatically reduced charges under the threat of
long prison sentences. The unsuccessful prosecutions have had much less media
attention.

Our goal is to educate the public in respect to Muslim religion, values, and politics, Islam and democracy.

Sponsored by: AWARE, and the ISO (International Socialists Organization)
Contact: Iso.champaign@gmail.com; aware@anti-war.net