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		<title>Action for Fair Food at Publix continues!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out photos here of local Floridian UUs picketing Publix in their work to encourage Publix to buy slavery-free tomatoes!
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		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/action-for-fair-food-at-publix-continues/</link>
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		<title>Great Op-Ed from News Press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, an esteemed colleague says what I feel, elegantly.  And so I share with you the words from the Rev. Jim Boler,  United Church of Christ minister (retired), who served on the staff of the Florida Conference of the United Church of Christ for 16 years. He was then an associate minister at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=362&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/great-op-ed-from-news-press/</link>
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		<title>Coming Out for Equality</title>
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Come Out for Equality!
 
Who: LGBT and friends

What: local southwest Florida solidarity demonstration for the National Equality March

When: Sunday October 11th at 12:30 pm

Where: corner of McGregor and Colonial
Sign making at Bar Association 6pm Mon Oct 5th

Parking under the bridge, Alliance for the Arts, the Palms Dinner Theatre.
Bring flags and homemade signs and wear white [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=351&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/coming-out-for-equality/</link>
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		<title>Esteemed Colleague Dies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On September 24, 2009, the Rev. Forrest Church died after a long battle with cancer.  Church was the Minister of Public Theology at All Souls Church in NYC and author of acclaimed books such as Freedom from Fear, So Help Me God, Love and Death. We await the publication of his most recent, final [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=347&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/esteemed-colleague-dies/</link>
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		<title>Victory for UU Legislative Ministry in California!</title>
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This is a victory that came about through a collaborative relationship between The UU Legislative Ministry Action Network, the UU Service Committee the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, Urban Semillas, Food and Water Watch and Alliance for Democracy- all of whom co-sponsored the bill.  Now it awaits the gubernatorial signature.
How exciting are the prospects [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=341&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/victory-for-uu-legislative-ministry-in-florida/</link>
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		<title>Immigration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some photos were sent to me from a friend who volunteered over the summer for No More Deaths in Arizona.  Their mission, as printed on their website, is

Mission Statement
No More Deaths is an organization whose mission is to end death and suffering on the U.S./Mexico border through civil initiative: the conviction that people of conscience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=337&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/immigration/</link>
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		<title>Guatemala Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ms. Menchu Tum was a 1992 Nobel Prize winner.  She has long worked for indigenous rights, learning Spanish and the Bible to be able to communicate effectively and strengthen her message.  In her book, I, Rigoberta Menchu she talks about the Bible as being a weapon- a way to appeal to the Christian culture for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=329&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/guatemala-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Pictures and Stories from Guatemala Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promised that I might post some pictures from our time in Guatemala with GRACE Project.  Our leader was Dr. Genelle Grant and faithful sidekicks were myself and member Helen Dixon, who has worked with other fabulous folks in our congregation in support of the healing and solidarity work of the GRACE Project.
First of all, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=307&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/pictures-and-stories-from-guatemala-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Unitarian Universalist History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Unitarian Universalist Church of Fort Myers Adult Education ministry team has been working our the curriculum Our Unitarian Universalist Story. In the spirit of their work, I wanted to pass along a colleague&#8217;s blog that features a number of lectures on Unitarian Universalist theology and history.  Check them out here.  The Rev. Thom Belote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=304&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/unitarian-universalist-history/</link>
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		<title>The Joy of Ceremony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had to share this with y&#8217;all&#8230;this wedding was held at Christ Lutheran Church in St Paul Minnesota:

Wow- what a fabulous way to be intentional with a ceremony.  Really beautiful and joyful.  For any of you considering a well-done, intentional musical wedding..I&#8217;m your gal.  I can sing and dance- all in a pretty robe to boot.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=allisonfarnum.wordpress.com&blog=3199694&post=300&subd=allisonfarnum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://allisonfarnum.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/the-joy-of-ceremony/</link>
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