Eat 'n Meets

Eat 'n Meets

Come, eat, and be merry with your fellow FUSers on Wednesday nights!  

Wednesday Nights

March 28 - May 9

5:45 - 6:30 pm - Dinner Served

7:00pm - Variety of adult RE, Discovery groups, and casual conversation

Essential Facts:

• A vegetarian option is always served at each dinner.
• Suggested donation rates for Eat ’n Meet dinners are: $7/adult, $3/child, with a maximum of $15 per family. However if this cost is prohibitive, please be our guest.
• Programs are offered after some of the Eat ‘n Meets. Check the calendar. The programs are free and open to all.

Eat 'n Meet Programs

• Video & discussion on Justice. Tackle basic ethics questions with Harvard’s Michel Sandel and your fellow UUs and neighbors. Polly Peterson, facilitates.

• Burt Berlow, author of The Compassionate Rebel, will speak on how individuals make a difference in our world. He will focus on the story of a local hero, who is a torture survivor, who may join us. Carol Koepp facilitates. 
• Video & discussion on Justice continues. Polly Peterson facilitates.

• “Voter ID: Where It Came From and What You Need to Know” Jenny Thomas, MUUSJA leader and expert on election fraud & voter regisration issues, will fill us in on the proposed constitutional amendment we face this fall. Wendy Jerome, facilitating.  

• A film produced by our own Deacon Warner! Peaceful Warriors is the story of Minnesota veterans and students journey to Georgia and their protest at the notorious School of the Americas. This is your chance to see this film before it sweeps all the prizes at the big film festivals! Deacon will present the film.
• Video & discussion on Justice continues for a last evening. Polly Peterson facilitates.
• Class/small group, New UU. Learn about this religious movement, history, and how this congregation works for you. Laney Ohmans leads.

• A speaker on ALEC, a behind-the-scenes organization which has been investigated by NPR and Common Cause. “What we see in ALEC is the enormous power multinational corporations are having over politics and laws in the state of Arizona,” says UU minister (from Arizona) the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray.

• The film The 800 Mile Wall highlights the construction of waslls along the US-Mexico border. An “unflinching look at a failed US border strategy that many believe violates fundamental human rights.” We are showing this film in line with our UU Study Issue and to prepare us for the June 2012 UU Justice General Assembly. The Rev. John Guttermann will join us, Wendy Jerome facilitates.
• The speaker Rick Gavrock of the Minnesota non-profit Boys to Men organization will explain this organization through which trained volunteers offer healthy challenges to growth as alternatives to dangerous choices available to urban youth. Bill Weir facilitates.
• Class/small group, New UU. Learn about this religious movement, history, and how this congregation works for you. Laney Ohmans leads.

• The film 9500 Liberty documents the first time in US history that an Arizona-style immigration law was implemented – and the surprising grassroots opposition that led to its repeal. Roger Ebert wrote, “ The most rewarding element of this deeply involved documentary involves the board meetings. Local citizens stand up to speak their minds .... in the great tradition of New England town meetings.” Rev. John Guttermann will join us, Wendy Jerome facilitates.