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Immigrants' Day at the State House

Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 9am - 1pm

24 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02133

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This year MIRA will be celebrating our 27th annual Immigrants' Day, of which we are proud members!


Immigrants' Day is one of our proudest events where we gather hundreds of immigrant and refugee constituents from across the Commonwealth to celebrate their contributions and advocate for their legislative and budget priorities. This year's program will be our first back in the State House since 2019!


2023 marks positive, new beginnings in immigration politics and immigrant-led initiatives that we invite you to support with us. We will be advocating for housing security, language access, foreign trained medical licensure, the Safe Communities Act, tuition equity, and child healthcare.


The event will kick off with a speaking program, followed by visits with legislators where community members can speak directly to the policies that affect their lives. Volunteer participants will also have the opportunity to freely visit individual offices.


We are privileged to have State Representative Dan Sena as our Master of Ceremonies! Gov. Maura Healey will be in attendance. Other speakers and details will be announced soon.

Good Friday Witness for Peace and Justice

Friday, April 7, 2023, 10am - 1:30pm


Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Quakers) has held a Good Friday Witness for Peace and Justice annually for about 60 years. This year we will hold a drop-in Meeting for Worship from 10:00am until 1:30pm on Friday April 7th, starting at the Beacon Hill Friends House (BHFH) at 6-8 Chestnut Street, Boston. At 11:00am, the Meeting for Worship will move down to the Boston Common (at a new location this year, on the Tremont Street sidewalk near the The Embrace sculpture and the Boston Common Visitors Center) remaining there as a silent vigil until 1:00pm, and then returning to the BHFH for closing. After closing, all are invited to share a meal of soup and bread provided by BHFH. Masks will be required inside at BHFH except when eating. All are invited to come for all or any part of the event they can. Those standing on the Common will have the opportunity to hold banners or signs or to hand out leaflets that focus on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. For more information, please contact Michael Carey and Ian Harrington at peace@fmcquaker.org.

Love’s Gonna Carry Us – A Singalong Concert

Saturday, April 8, 2023, 7pm

Friends Meeting at Cambridge

5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA 02138


RSVP here: www.riseupandsing.org/events


A benefit for Queer Youth Assemble. Suggested donation: Adults $20, Youth (under 25) $10


Annie Patterson & Peter Blood’s songbooks have created a quiet revolution of group singing across North America. This concert offers a rare opportunity to meet the creators of these popular songbooks and experience their gifts of nurturing community and resilience through song. Sponsored by Friends Meeting at Cambridge (Quakers) Peace and Social Justice Committee – contact for volunteers and local information: peace@fmcquaker.org.

Friendly Witness: The Spiritual Ground of Quaker Social Action


A hybrid conference exploring what the contemplative religious tradition of Quakerism has to say about social action.


Wednesday, April 19, 2023

4 PM - 9 PM (ET) | Zoom and Onsite

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What is this conference?


What does the contemplative tradition of Quakerism have to offer the world in terms of social action? In this conference, exploring Friendly Witness, we will bring together a few Quaker scholars and practitioners to engage in conversation about this question. The conference will provide a collaborative academic-activist venue for people who are curious about Quaker theology to engage with scholars and practitioners about past influences and current concerns. 

 

Our speakers will explore the ways in which Quaker conceptions of Spirit, spiritual disciplines, and testimonies on peace, ecology, equality, and justice play out in lives and communities. 

 

Co-sponsored by Boston University School of Theology, Beacon Hill Friends House, and Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries, this conference is an academic and community partnership in understanding the implications of Quaker theology for practical action.


The details


Who is invited: Everyone interested in exploring these questions! We encourage Quakers and non-Quakers alike to attend. 

 

Note that you can attend as much or as little as you’d like! 

 

Cost: This conference is free and open to the public

 

Location: Hybrid! 


  • The entire conference will be offered on Zoom 
  • The plenary presentation will be held at BU School of Theology (745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, Room 325) 
  • The panels will be offered at Beacon Hill Friends House (8 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA 02108)


Plenary Presentation: 4 PM (ET)

An Ever-Branching River: The Beautiful Watersheds of Quaker Theology

Dr. Christy Randazzo

  • The plenary presentation will be held at BU School of Theology (745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, Room 325) 


Panels: 7 PM - 9 PM (ET)

  • The panels will be offered at Beacon Hill Friends House (8 Chestnut Street, Boston, MA 02108)


Panel 1 | 7 - 8 PM | Schism, Sanctuary, & Transformation



Mystics and Evangelicals: The Theological Backstory to Recent Schisms in Quaker Churches

Stephen Angell

Leatherock professor of Quaker studies, Earlham School of Religion


James A. Corbett, Quaker Spirituality, and the Sanctuary Movement

Rady Roldan-Figueroa

Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, BU School of Theology 


Becoming the Quakers the World Needs

Robin Mohr

Executive Secretary, Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas 


Panel 2 | 8 - 9 PM | Ecotheology, Social Action, & Imagination


Quakers and Eco-spirituality

Cherice Bock

Adjunct professor of ecotheology at Portland Seminary; leader of the Oregon Interfaith Power & Light at Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon 


Listening to the still small voice: How Quakerism shows up in life and action at Beacon Hill Friends House

Jennifer Newman

Program Director, Beacon Hill Friends House 


Rufus Jones, Howard Thurman, and the Sin of Segregation

Welling Hall

Earlham Plowshares Professor of Peace Studies Emerita and BHFH Quaker Fellow

1st Annual International Interfaith Youth Music & Arts Festival

A CMM Fundraiser

Thursday, June 22, 2023, 7 - 9pm

First Church in Cambridge, Congregational UCC

11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Register today at: youthartsfest.eventbrite.com

Facebook event

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Livestreaming will be available (Link will go out 1hr before performance to those who register)


Theme: Guns Down, Peace Up

#thenumbersmatter


Gun violence has erupted in the City of Boston, erasing promising teen lives and countless others. Domestic violence has been on the rise as well. These acts have called for community action with ALL FAITHS TOGETHER, and what better way than through the power of music! Join us at Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries as we bring together powerful voices of international & local choirs, musicians, and artists for an unforgettable evening. You will not want to miss this event! Tickets are going fast!!!


Domestic violence, gang, and gun violence are urgent, complex, and multifaceted community traumatic problems. Domestic violence against women has increased dramatically during the pandemic and beyond. In 2008, domestic violence was declared a public health emergency in Massachusetts and it has only gotten worse.


  • Nearly 1 in 3 Massachusetts women has experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner
  • In a single day, 1,795 victims were served by Massachusetts domestic violence programs
  • Between 2003 and 2012, 266 victims were murdered in intimate partner homicides, and 74 domestic violence homicide perpetrators were killed
  • The presence of a gun in the home during a domestic violence incident increases the risk of homicide by at least 500%
  • 72% of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these crimes are female


Join with us as the youth in our city say "NO MORE VIOLENCE!"


If you cannot join us, please consider purchasing a sponsorship/ad for your business, organization, committee, or foundation, and donate to our cause. Help us carry the message to those who need it the most and let us carry it together in solidarity. "We denounce violence of any kind" is our resounding message. With CMM Executive Director, Sophia Bishop-Rice, show up for an evening of healing through song. Find your light and voice towards forgiveness and reconciliation. Renew your spirit. Stand with us. Sing with us. Be with us.

See how we lived out a similar project in February:


"The International Choral and Arts Festival unites Boston community in observance of gun violence"


Check out the news article recap and the livestream recording of our Valentine's Day fundraising event, which brought together choirs and artists from all over the greater Boston area for an evening of transformation and transcendence through the power of music.

Rome & Assisi Spirituality & Sustainability Conference

Contemplation & Action for Social & Ecological Renewal!

June 4 - June 11, 2023

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The conference will gather participants and leaders (including Executive Director Emeritus, Rev. Dr. Rodney L. Petersen) from various eco-spiritual perspectives, centers, and organizations. While engaging in contemplative eco-spiritual practices, we will share our experiences of transformative eco-spiritual change in lifestyle, education, institutional practices, and social- economic policies. We will also explore collaborative opportunities with young eco-spiritual leaders. See some of the topics below:


Brian Swimme, Ph.D., Author of Cosmogenesis & Joe Holland, Ph.D., “Retrieving the European Indigenous Keltic Tradition of Catholic Christianity.”
Jude Currivan, Ph.D., “How the Emergent Cosmology of a living and Unified Universe Underpins a New and Unitive Narrative.”
Herman Greene J.D., “The New Ecological Social Contract: The Emergence of Ecocentric Governance and Law.”
David Korten, Ph.D., “Eco-nomics: Economics for the People of a Living Earth.”
Rodney Petersen, Ph.D., “Finding the Human Right to a Healthy Environment.”
Song Li, “The Earth Charter in China.”
PLUS
Food, land, and energy safety
Education…The Arts…
and MORE . . .
We welcome you with open hearts!
Caroline & Elisabetta & Rick
Questions to Assisiconference@gmail.com
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