Join the First Unitarian Universalist Church for a screening of the “Food Chains” documentary, a part of their ongoing film series.

“Food Chains” looks at the lives and the working conditions of farmworkers and focuses on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Fair Food Program they designed.

“Food Chains” is a documentary that chronicles the Fair Food Program and demonstrates its novelty in effecting substantive change throughout the agriculture system. In fact, other workers are using that program model for many other industries.

A short presentation, discussing the program’s economic impact and the role of faith in the program’s impact on human rights, will follow.

Hosted by Ohio Fair Food.

Educate A Legislator Day date has changed to Wed. Sept 25th 8 am – 4 pm

We received information over the weekend that the Ohio Republicans will be taking a retreat to organize their plans for the year beginning on September 19th, the day we were going to talk with our legislators. I started calling Monday to verify this with the Representatives on the House Public Utilities Committee and was surprised to find that the aides answering the phones knew nothing about any retreat. So, I made some tentative appointments to meet, hoping that the information we received was wrong. I asked if they could investigate and tell me for sure if the Republican Party was going to be at the State House or on retreat on the 19th.  

On Tuesday, Rep. Jay Edwards’ office called and confirmed that the Republicans will indeed be going on a retreat the same day we are trying to hold Educate a Legislator Day. I received calls from other aides canceling appointments I had made because the Representatives would not be available.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- After destroying much of Tibet's Buddhist
religion and causing the Dalai Lama to flee, the Chinese government is
now teaching Tibetan monks that every "living Buddha" must obey the
law while reincarnating.

"Some 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks attended a training session on
reincarnation for a living Buddha in southwest China's Tibet
Autonomous Region, which includes government regulation on management
of the reincarnation system," Beijing's Global Times recently
reported.

Training sessions began August 23 and lasted one week to 10 days in
Lhasa, capital of Tibet. Lessons included "the history and rituals for
the reincarnation of the living Buddha."

About 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks attended the courses, including monks
from the influential, centuries-old Sera and Drepung monasteries near
Lhasa.

A living Buddha is China's terminology for what Tibetans call a
"tulku". They can include the Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, and other
senior lamas who have not achieved enlightenment and the nirvana of a

Trump with Likud Party Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Aka, the Likud Party Half of the “US/Israeli Wannabe Authoritarian Tag-team”)

Israel’s influential center-left newspaper, Haaretz, commented recently on the Netanyahu/Trump relationship:

“The historically deep ties that bind the United States and Israel were profoundly damaged Thursday when the government of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu succumbed to pressure from the Trump Administration…’

“The ‘wannabe authoritarian tag-team’ (ie, ‘Trump and Netanyahu’) has committed a reckless, racist, contemptible act driven by stunningly short-sighted political calculations by barring [US House of Representatives members] Omar and Tlaib from visiting Israel. The action will have fateful repercussions…”

It is instructive to recall that in the 1995 campaign for Israeli Prime Minister, a number of violent hate-group protests were organized by Netanyahu’s Likud Party which caused serious divisions in the state of Israel – quite similar to the divisions that have occurred in the US since the campaign for president by Donald Trump.