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Topic: Idea from Nancy
ANNOUNCEMENT: Death Penalty Forum

To be held at Utica College at 7:00 PM, April 14 in Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall

Speakers to Include:

Bobby McLaughlin, Former NY State Prisoner Convicted of a Murder Charge then Exonerated & Released after 6 years

Ted Orlin, Professor, Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Utica College

Rev. Madeline McDonald, Whitesboro, Retired United Methodist Pastor, Volunteer Chaplain at Walsh Hospital, a DOC Maximum Security Correctional Facility, Rome, New York

Barrie Gewanter, Director of the CNY Chapter NY Civil Liberties Union (NYS Affiliate of the ACLU)

Please plan to attend.

Friendly Folks of the Social Action Committee

In the work for a more just, peaceful and healthy communities, there are millions of issues, and consequently, it is quite easy for our heads to spin and for us to be rendered paralyzed by the overwhelming amount of worth causes. It seems to me that for the sake of being effective, as well as for the sake of our own sanity, we could make
attempts to focus.

We could brainstorm the issues that interest us
most and then narrow our focus together by choosing which particular issue(s) we would like to work on as a group.

Perhaps we can brainstorm over email this week, before the monday night meeting with Naomi, so that we are a bit more prepared.

There are, of course, issues on the local, state, national and international levels. All of which, we propably all agree are important.

I am excited to be in a group that has passion to address pressing issues of national and international concern-- some of which we
discussed last meeting (e.g. social security, filibustering, Central American Free Trade Agreement, Plan Colombia...).

Again, i see some value in focusing on one or two state/national/international issues.

In addition, I like the idea of choosing one local issue, in which we can become involved. This way we can be face to face with real people and real places. Furthermore, we would then have the opportunity to collaborate with another church (like St. Francis DeSales:).

Does this sound like a good approach to people?

What are our capablities and limits as a group of 10-20 concerned citizens who meet bi-monthly for one hour?

Lets start an email conversation....

spring rain,

Nancy Groves

PS: Issues that i'm drawn to:
the death penalty in NYS and in US. *
poverty in utica*
biotechnology*
media (bias, accuracy, diversity, corporate consolidation...)*
*each of these is a whole can of worms, it is true.