2021-02-26 Announcements for

from the Right Relationship Group

Wednesday, March 3^rd at 7:30 p.m.

The Spirituality and Significance of Land Acknowledgements - 7:30 p.m.  Hosted by Unitarian Universalist Action New Hampshire.  Join UU Action NH and the UU Church of Nashua for a conversation about the spirituality and significance of land acknowledgements with the Sag8mo (chief speaker), Paul Pouliot, and Sag8moskwa (female head speaker), Denise Pouliot, of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook and Abenaki People.  Here is the link to register.

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ode-trDwpHdLhZWGuYx8yF1re28wGP8uj [2]

Read to learn about the work for an apology to Native Americans in Vermont here.  While not in New Hampshire, it was widespread in many Native communities.  This piece also shows the importance of apologies.

https://vtdigger.org/2021/02/21/90-years-after-vermont-eugenics-survey-lawmakers-propose-apology-to-those-affected/ [3]

The first podcast is an excellent introduction to the importance of languages to Indigenous people

https://emergencemagazine.org/story/language-keepers-podcast/ [4]

Annual Lenten Luncheon Series

Information on the Lenten Lunches  of the Greater Concord Interfaith Council’s Annual Lenten Luncheon Series Virtual on Zoom Thursdays from 12:15 p.m. –1:00 p.m.  The zoom link is recurring and is to be used for all four events, so please save it.

• March  4 – Rev. Dr. Kate Morse, Chaplain, Concord Hospital
• March 11 – Rev. Jason Wells, Executive Director, NH Council of Churches
• March 18 – Rev. Linda Fraser, Hospice Chaplain at Franklin VNA and Hospice
• March 25 – To Be Announced

We will open at 12:15 p.m. with introductions and prayer.  Our speakers will talk for 20-25 minutes.  There will be a brief time for questions and comments at the end.

Join Zoom Meeting at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84150877100?pwd=aTZ2ZU9YMjB4VXZ3TU9xN04vS2lmZz09 [5]

Meeting ID: 841 5087 7100, Passcode: 617557

Admission is free, but donations to these local programs are encouraged and appreciated:

• Friends of Forgotten Children http://www.fofc-nh.org/donate.html [6]
• Riverbend Community Mental Health https://www.riverbendcmhc.org/donate/ [7]

Or mail a check noting how you want the donation applied to:

Greater Concord Interfaith Council PO Box 362 Concord, NH 03302-0362.

Questions? Contact Margaret Morrill MEM1760 [at] comcast [dot] net or Eleanor Kimball pnekimball [at] aol [dot] com

Earth Care Activists

Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting and Acadia Friends Monthly Meeting invite you to an interactive workshop by zoom, Saturday, February 27, 2021, 8:30 a.m. to gather and 9 a.m. to begin – noon.  Earthcare, Call to Action, Empowerment and Engagement with personal journeys shared by Andy Burt, Jay O'Hara, Peter Garrett, Gray Cox.  Maine Activist Earthcare Friends will speak about their lives, their moments of insight, their growing concerns and anecdotes of success and failure.  A personal witness prepared by each speaker is attached below.  Get to know their work.

Margaret Marshall & MaineBob O’Connor, facilitators of today’s workshop, introduce us to their work.  Queries and levels of climate concern are included from the NEYM Earthcare Committee.  There will be two break out groups (3-5 people) in which each attender will share Earthcare concerns, hopes and intentions for 2021.

QuakerSpring Gathering: Listening to the Inward Christ Together, Saturday March 6^th

• 11a.m. ET - Scripture reading (out of silent waiting)
• Noon - break / informal fellowship
• 12:30 - Meeting for Worship (moving into consideration of queries by those gathered)
• 2:30 (approx.) - closing & informal fellowship

Information & registration at https://quakerspring.org/ [8]

Women’s World Day of Prayer

Friday, March 5, 2021  (This event will be held online.)

The program was written by women of churches in Vanuatu, an island in the South Pacific (known as host country for several episodes of Survival on TV or for older people, the island called New Hebrides by Capt. Cook).

The theme is: Build on a Strong Foundation. Matthew 7:24-27

Laconia: 10:00 a.m. Led by NH UCC women. Contact: Margie Kreitler for details and password. 603-279-6150 or mkreitler [at] gmail [dot] com

Henniker: 4:00 p.m. In person and via zoom and live streamed. Hosted by St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, led by interdenominational group of women (with masks and social distancing in large sanctuary). Contact: Marian Baker for details and password: 603-478-5650. or quakerbonnet [at] gmail [dot] com

If anyone knows of other services in NH, please let Marian know.

A NH Faith-Based Conversation on White Supremacy

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 6:00 p.m.

This event will be held online. Register for this event on Zoom [9].

See and share this event on Facebook.

Members of the Jewish, Catholic and Protestant faith communities of New Hampshire invite you to a conversation about our faiths and race relations.  This online program follows-up to two earlier online conversations on faith and racial inequities in December and January.

The subject of this meeting is the state of white supremacy in New Hampshire.

The guest speaker will be Melissa Kraus, Esq., the Associate Regional Director at ADL New England.  In that role, she leads the office’s work on legislative priorities and coalition work, including genocide education in New Hampshire.  She also works on ADL New England’s incident response and community programming.  Before starting at ADL, Melissa was a judicial law clerk in the Massachusetts Appeals Court.  She received her JD from Boston University School of Law.

After we hear her insights on white supremacy and extremism in NH, we will continue our community conversation about the problem of racism and intolerance in our society.

The panel will be moderated by Peter McBride, Director, Cohen Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies at Keene State College.

This conversation will continue on Wednesday, April 21 with details to come soon.  Movie event on Bloody Sunday in Selma