<div dir="ltr">Some of you may be interested in these trainings on grassroots organizing that will be happening right in our church building beginning next week. More details at the links below.<div><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font color="#0b5394"><b>Rev. Joan Javier-Duval</b></font><font color="#000000"> |<b> </b></font></font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b><font color="#0b5394">Minister</font></b></span><div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Unitarian Church of Montpelier</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:ucm.revjoan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ucm.revjoan@gmail.com</a> | <span style="font-size:small">802-223-7861 x1 | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/joaniemj" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/RevJoanUU" target="_blank">Twitter</a></span></font></div><div><font size="2" style="font-size:small"><i><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></i></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#444444"><font size="2" style="font-size:small"><i>"We are each other's harvest; </i></font><i style="font-size:small"><font size="2">we are each other's business; </font><font size="2">we are each other's magnitude and bond."</font><font size="2"> --Gwendolyn Brooks</font></i></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Henry</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:henrydoit@gmail.com">henrydoit@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 2:48 PM<br>Subject: New Years Resolution: Train & Organize!<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span id="m_-938439438470035267gmail-docs-internal-guid-29236db4-9947-d9ac-019f-26d2ee7200c1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Come and train with us, tell your friends, and please forward to your lists. </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">~ </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Vermont Climate Union and the VT Poor People’s Campaign Present </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">~</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:30pt;font-family:Cinzel;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Grassroots Organizer </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:30pt;font-family:Cinzel;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Training</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cinzel;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Workshops start January and go through February, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cinzel;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">(and maybe beyond)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cinzel;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">@ The Unitarian Church of Montpelier ~ 130 Main St in Montpelier</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Organizers, Activists, and Volunteers, ages 16-100+, are invited to a series of workshops to develop core organizing skills and increase our capacity to work for Justice in Vermont. All are welcome to come to one or many classes. These workshops offer instruction in a variety of needed skills and services common to grassroots organizing and social change efforts, and our coordinating team will work with participants to apply the skills learned in collaborative organizing environments. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will offer classes on Tuesday and Thursday Nights from 6-8 at The UU</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(67,67,67);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, Starting Tuesday January 16th.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.38;background-color:transparent">Please review our Calendar as there are number of events at other times and locations. </span><a href="https://www.poorpeoplescampaignvt.org/calender/?view=calendar&month=January-2018" style="line-height:1.38;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">View the CALENDAR Here</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and take a look at our </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Course List</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, below. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">We now offer </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Graduate;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">Graduate and Undergraduate credits</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">More Info Below </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTVPtCWHoPDGq-s-IGvx750i3nrSJtVRj7riP68LV6S53cVw/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">Registration Link</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Course List</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Grassroots Organizing - From Individual Outrage to Collective Action - Andrew Tripp, </span><a href="https://populardemocracy.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Center for Popular Democracy</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><span class="m_-938439438470035267gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Digital Organizing & The Internet 101 - Julia Wilk, </span><a href="http://www.vermontdeviceclinic.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">VT Device Clinic</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Making Better Meetings: Facilitation & Decision-Making</span><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> - Nico Amador, Training for Change / </span><a href="https://www.acluvt.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ACLU</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Civil Disobedience & Direct Action - The Switchboard Trainers Network</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2013370515597495/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Law and Systemic Change</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: A workshop for lawyers and activists centering the Poor People’s Campaign </span><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">- The National Lawyers Guild ( Jan. 6th @ UVM, CLE Credits available, all welcome)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tenants and Homeless Know Your Rights - Sandy Baird, National Lawyers Guild</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Building a Just Economy for the Poor People's Campaign - Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Vermonters for a New Economy (This class will be offered in Cabot and livestreamed online)</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Legislating Change: Advocating for Justice in the VT Statehouse - Pat Flood, 350VT; Mark Hughes, Justice for All; Karen Topper, Green Mountain Self Advocates. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Cantastoria & Street Theater Education: Jabari Jones and Lyndsay Love, Bread and Puppet Theater</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Stay Tuned for our Direct Action & Civil Disobedience, Migra Watch, Poetry, and other workshops, as well <b>Spring Arts Production intensive</b>, co-hosted by Bread and Puppet Theater and The Make Collective (think Puppets, Banners, Dance, Theater, and Action)</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paid registration and donations are optional, though appreciated. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Some events are already scheduled outside of Montpelier, and many of our classes can be provided, pending interest, in other areas as well. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Don’t hesitate to contact us. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This program explicitly supports The New Poor People’s Campaign, The Racial Justice Omnibus Legislation, Health Care is a Human Right, & The Ban New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure bill (soon to be introduced). Organizers, volunteers, and supporters of these and other campaigns are invited to participate in training to help them make the most of opportunities to coordinate and organize together. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We hope this will contribute to further silo breakdown and movement growth, and a successful organizing community.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Graduate;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">graduate and undergraduate credits</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(0,255,255)"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(19,79,92);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">for participation in our workshops and on-the-job organizer training!! </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(19,79,92);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(0,255,255)">Please tell your high-school aged youth and other folks looking for accredited learning opportunities. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Get in touch for info on this and to discuss VSAC grant funding to support our continued learning together! You don’t need money, experience, or to be in a program to be involved. Grassroots Organizer Training is open to all levels of experience. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTVPtCWHoPDGq-s-IGvx750i3nrSJtVRj7riP68LV6S53cVw/viewform?usp=sf_link" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Register Here</font></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> so we can make sure we have adequate space!</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Registration, course lists, trainer bios, and other resources are available at </span><a href="https://www.poorpeoplescampaignvt.org/calender/?view=calendar&month=January-2018" style="line-height:1.38;text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">poorpeoplescampaignvt.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Please get in touch with us at </span><a href="mailto:vtclimateunion@gmail.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">vtclimateunion@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> for more information. <b>If your group would like to endorse please </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><b>send your logo to the email above. </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Thanks.</span></p><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div></span></div>
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