This is going out to everyone on the Council of Organizations List. Our June 5th UN 69th meeting is definitely on. 5:00 PM in the Stebbens room at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin St (at Geary) in San Francisco.
In outline, the UN 69th Celebration will be Sunday October 19th at the Starr King room in the Unitarian Universalist Church at 1187 Franklin St in San Francisco. There will be a lunch with a keynote speaker followed by break out sessions at round tables where people are already seated. Each table will be labeled with the topic of its breakout session and will have a topic leader assigned. The theme of the Celebration will be Human Rights.
Please join the committee at this meeting. We should be able to overflow the room. The discussion will center on the Keynote speaker and the breakout tables. We have a keynote speaker and just need a formal confirmation of her invitation at the full committee level. For breakout tables, we are looking for organizations to provide a topic and a lead person for a table. Bring your ideas of organizations we can reach out to. One topic has been decided for sure: The Intersection of Climate Change and Human Rights.
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In a separate matter, at the May meeting of the COO we decided to try the UNA Gender Crosstalk with the idea in mind of having a Bay Area Gender Crosstalk of our own down the road. Please take a few minutes to participate by clickingi in here to write a short message to the Exec Dir of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. The UNA Gender Crosstalk aims to begin a new phase of human history based on gender equality. The idea is for the women to make the Crosstalk go and to bring in the men. It can work, so please suspend disbelief and take a few minutes out to write your message.
Please feel free to set your own topic for your message in the UNA Gender Crosstalk. A gender related topic is very appropriate, but it is OK to write about something else. Possibilities: the global roles of women and men, violence against women, Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the possibility of a Fifth World Conference for Women (5WCW), expanding the scope of the Women's Movement, how to bring in the men, and so forth. You might ask Dr Mlambo-Ngcuka a question, or encourage her. The field is wide open.
-- Roger Eaton
rogerweaton@gmail.com
415 933 0153
