\nPeaceWorks Rochester Community Calendar

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All day event

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ht now hosting a protest to the cuts in Medicare in front of the Republican Headquarters on State S

Description:

The Center for Disability Rights, is right now hosting a protest to the cuts in Medicare in front of the Republican Headquarters on State St. They are camping out and plan to be there for a while trying to get the local Republicans to call for no cuts to Medicaid. Please stop by and join them for a while in the next couple of days as they will be there. Please support them in this fight.

Alex White

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

7:30am - 8:30am

Location:

Park Avenue & Culver Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

Bring Them Home Vigils

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

1199 East Main Street, Rochester, NY

Description:

Rochester Greenovation
The Green Cycles Store = Precycling +Downcycling
+ Upcycling + Recycling + Freecycling + E-cycling

Sustainable Saturdays
Rochester Greenovation
1199 East Main St
288-7564 or email at
info@rochestergreen.org
Sustainability is our Life!

The 2nd Saturday of every month is A Sustainable Saturday
June 14: 10am-3pm
On Sustainable Saturdays we attempt to demonstrate through education &
networking how to reclaim, renew & redefine salvage of all kinds towards the prevention & reduction of generated waste.

This monthly event brings together environmental groups, non-for-profits, green businesses, community organizations, craftsmen, artists & food vendors all for the purpose of demonstrating various ways to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

We look forward to you joining us on this adventure!
www.rochestergreen.org/
facebook.com/RochesterGreenovation?fref=ts
Rochester Greenovation
www.rochestergreen.org
Strengthening local communities through environmentally conscious initiatives, waste diversion, and ...

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

1199 East Main Street, Rochester, NY

Description:

Rochester Greenovation
The Green Cycles Store = Precycling +Downcycling
+ Upcycling + Recycling + Freecycling + E-cycling

Sustainable Saturdays
Rochester Greenovation
1199 East Main St
288-7564 or email at
info@rochestergreen.org
Sustainability is our Life!

The 2nd Saturday of every month is A Sustainable Saturday
June 14: 10am-3pm
On Sustainable Saturdays we attempt to demonstrate through education &
networking how to reclaim, renew & redefine salvage of all kinds towards the prevention & reduction of generated waste.

This monthly event brings together environmental groups, non-for-profits, green businesses, community organizations, craftsmen, artists & food vendors all for the purpose of demonstrating various ways to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

We look forward to you joining us on this adventure!
www.rochestergreen.org/
facebook.com/RochesterGreenovation?fref=ts
Rochester Greenovation
www.rochestergreen.org
Strengthening local communities through environmentally conscious initiatives, waste diversion, and ...

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Location:

First Unitarian Church, 220 S. Winton Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

7:30am - 8:30am

Location:

Park Avenue & Culver Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Description:

1. 3 day international conference on Contemporary issues of Women and Gender July 30-Aug1, 2017. Some 51 scholars from around the world will be presenting their research papers on Women and Gender from different religious perspectives. Visit our website for a complete schedule of the Conference. Three known and reputed women scholars will be keynote and they are: July 30, 6:15, Dinner Keynote: Rabbi Dr. Rachel Sabath -Halachmi, "Gender and Judaism: The Ethics of Transformation July 31, 12:30PM Luncheon Keynote: Dr. Asma Afsaruddin,“The Qur'an, Gender, and Feminist Interpretations” July 31, 6:00PM, Dinner Keynote: Dr. Mary E. Hunt, "Religious Dynamism and Feminist Action: Anchors of Contemporary Spirituality” The conference is open now to 47 participants: Registration Options are: 1. individuals participating in the 3 day conference without dinners and lunches: $55.00 only 2. Dinner per individual is: $35.00 3. Lunch per individual is: $25.00 4. Table of 10 is:$159.00 per individual including all, dinners, lunches, refreshments and presentations. 5. individual is:$175.00 including everything please register through: interfaith@naz.edu by July 20, 2017.and mail the check written to Nazareth College, Hickey Center on the address below This is a unique and significant conference to hear academic scholars on issues of women and gender.. Please visit our website for details: https://www2.naz.edu/interfait h/programs/academic-conference s/sacred-texts-human-contexts/ schedule/ 2. Global Citizenship Immersion: Building Skills and Knowledge for a Diverse World (For high school students) August 7-11, 2017 Nazareth College, Golisano Academic Center, Room 233 from 1:00PM-8:00PM This week-long academic immersion program is designed for students in grades 9 through 12 but open to college freshman also.For details, please go to our website:https://www2.naz.edu/i nterfaith/programs/workshops-t raining/next-generation/ The last date for registration is July 20, 2017, registration fee is $95.00 includes refreshments and suppers. To register, email: cisd@naz.edu or call:(585) 389-2963 Contact Nora Bradbury Haehl" the program coordinator for any question. Please circulate it to your friends and students. 3.Interfaith Immersion with concentration on leadership Skills and Conflict Management. A week-long non-credit certificate course with spiritual journeys to places of worship. Monday Aug 7th to Friday Aug 11, 2017, 1:30 pm to 8:30 pm Nazareth College Golisano Academic Center Room # 235 Registration Information (Deadline July 20, 2017): Program Fee: $179.00 which includes suppers and visits to places of worship. This week long interfaith course is designed for professionals, business managers, teachers, religious leaders, and social workers for cultural and religious diversity training. Please email Rev. Gordon Webster: revgvw@gmail.com is the program coordinator for any question. Register by email: interfaith@naz.edu or call: (585) 389-2963. for program details, see: https://www2.naz.edu/interfait h/programs/workshops-training/ train-trainers/ Limited number of scholarships are available. Please write a check to Nazareth College, Hickey Center and mail it to my attention on the College address

Time:

6:30pm

Location:

First Church of God on Clarissa Street.

Description:

United Christian Leadership Ministry is holding a Mayoral Forum on Thursday, 7/20 at 6:30 pm at First Church of God on Clarissa Street.

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

2:30pm - 4:30pm

Location:

Media Room (2nd floor)at Legacy at Clover Blossom

Description:

Dear Rochester Poets Friends and Members,

A reminder to join us NEXT Sunday, July 23, 2017, in the Media Room (2nd floor)at Legacy at Clover Blossom. Our featured reader will be poet GENE STELZIG. As always, the featured reader will be followed by our Open Mic.

NOTE OUR TIME CHANGE: 2:30-4:30. Also, use the main entrance (pictured above) and go up the stairs immediately to your right; the Media Room will be straight ahead. Or take the elevator straight ahead and slightly to the left to the second floor; the Media Room will be immediately to your left.

Gene Stelzig earned degrees in English from the University of Pennsylvania, King's College, Cambridge, and Harvard. He taught in the English Department at SUNY Geneseo from 1972 until his retirement in 2016 as an Emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor.

His career as a poet began at Penn, where he worked on the university literary magazine, The Pennsylvania Review, for four years, co-editing it in his senior year. He has two volumes of poetry published by small presses: Fool's Gold: Selected Poems of a Decade (FootHills, 2008), and Assorted Self-Scriptings 1964-1984 (2015, Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo).

Over the past five decades, his poetry has been published in a number of little and literary magazines, including an autobiographical long poem, "For the Death of My Mother," in The Literary Review. He's also published translations of the German poets Schiller, Grass, and Hesse, and recently completed a translation of Goethe's Faust, Part I, for which he's currently seeking a publisher.

Several of his autobiographical essays have appeared in life writing journals, and his scholarship includes books on Wordsworth, Hesse, Rousseau and Goethe, and Henry Crabb Robinson, as well as nearly fifty articles in academic journals in the fields of Romanticism and Autobiography Studies.

As always, we'll be providing refreshments, but if you have anything you'd like to share, don't hesitate to bring it along.

And of course, even if you can't attend yourself, pass the word by inviting your Facebook friends who might be interested or emailing friends who aren't on FB! You can send folks the following link to our event: http://j.mp/RoPo0717

Admission is FREE, but donations to support Rochester Poets are gratefully accepted. You can also support RoPo with a basic annual membership, which is still only $20 -- you can even pay by credit/debit card if you prefer: http://squareup.com/store/rochester-poets/

See you next Sunday.

~Frank

Frank Judge
President, Rochester Poets
585-260-9005
rochesterpoets@gmail.com

Time:

4:30pm

Location:

618 Cedarwood Terrace

Description:

WELCOME TO THE NEXT EVICTION DEFENSE OF ELIZABETH MCGRIFF

We are planning some new gangbuster events like we have never done before.

Our kick off rally will be on Thursday, July 27 at 4:30 PM, but related events will begin earlier in the week. July 27 is the first day that the sheriff and his team may arrive, but we will also have a substantial presence at 618 Cedarwood Terrace July 24-28 and beyond, if necessary.

Elizabeth has started her new full time job as a caseworker with Child Protective Services and cannot presently take days off, so we are working around her schedule. Thus the afternoon rally time.

Stay tuned as plans develop. The focus will be housing justice, and we are working to bring in the religious community, public figures, and others. For starters, look for brief religious services of various denominations from the porch steps of Liz's home every day the week of July 24-28, time TBA.

We are working on having people in the house who can make call outs whenever police arrive. Sister Grace Miller will be present for the day of the rally, and we are working to gather a brigade of nuns to keep the welcome mat on the porch on other days.

One goal is to rouse media and public attention via some clever peaceful actions.

We’re not done planning, and we will continue to develop new plans and ideas for as long as necessary to thwart this eviction and convince MidFirst that it's time to work with Liz.

We are open to fresh creative ideas, so if you have suggestions, email or call one of us.

We have received excellent support for Elizabeth in her struggle for housing justice over the years, and we are counting on you to rise to this occasion as well. We plan to expand this to new faces.

Who can you bring to 618 Cedarwood Terrace during our launch of Housing Justice Week at Elizabeth’s? You already know how courageous Liz has been in her struggle with MidFirst Bank and HUD.

Bring your ideas and bodies daily, if possible, whenever you can. Stay alert. We’ll post tighter time frames ASAP.

Background:
MidFirst Bank is the 5th largest privately owned bank in the country. It has offices in Oklahoma, Arizona, Colorado, and California, but has no offices in New York State. Despite that, in 2016 the bank was ranked the third worst in NYC for neglecting their vacant properties. They have yet to pay the $200,000 in fines they received for violations. In Rochester there are presently 19 empty and decaying homes owned by MidFirst, and at least that many more more that were created by incomplete MidFirst foreclosures. MidFirst has been trying for years to add 618 Cedarwood to that list.

Liz has been trying to get MidFirst to work with her for years. There have been 5 eviction attempts, and the only offer she has received from the bank was an offer to sell her back her house for $130,000, even though she bought it for $56,000 and it is assessed at $73,000. Because of the continued support of Take Back the Land and many other community members, Liz is still in her home. Since last year, she has been trying to work with MidFIrst to buy back her house via the Rochester City Roots Community Land Trust. The bank has turned down all offers.

During this last year, MidFirst has played footsie with HUD, claiming that the house was vacant, and conveying it (turning it over) to HUD in order to collect the FHA insurance on the house. To the best of our knowledge, they received that payment, but may have been asked to pay it back when HUD discovered irregularities in the conveyance process, including that the house isn't vacant. HUD then returned the house to MidFirst, and MidFirst chose, once again, to go to court to try to evict Liz.

NOTE: If there is someone who can provide suggestions as to how to get the following information, we’d be very grateful. We'd like to know as fast as possible if MidFirst returned the insurance payment they received from FHA, and how much that insurance payment was. This information is very valuable to us.

One can only wonder why the Monroe County Sheriff would want to help MidFirst create one vacant house by evicting Liz. Note, this is an election year, and Sheriff O'Flynn is wanting our vote!

See you there!!!

James Murphy: rochester catholicworker@gmail.com 286-6328
Julie Gelfand: gppphotog@aol.com 485-3807
Mike Connelly: mike@monopod.net 271-2678

Location:

Nazareth College

Description:

1. 3 day international conference on Contemporary issues of Women and Gender July 30-Aug1, 2017. Some 51 scholars from around the world will be presenting their research papers on Women and Gender from different religious perspectives. Visit our website for a complete schedule of the Conference. Three known and reputed women scholars will be keynote and they are: July 30, 6:15, Dinner Keynote: Rabbi Dr. Rachel Sabath -Halachmi, "Gender and Judaism: The Ethics of Transformation July 31, 12:30PM Luncheon Keynote: Dr. Asma Afsaruddin,“The Qur'an, Gender, and Feminist Interpretations” July 31, 6:00PM, Dinner Keynote: Dr. Mary E. Hunt, "Religious Dynamism and Feminist Action: Anchors of Contemporary Spirituality” The conference is open now to 47 participants: Registration Options are: 1. individuals participating in the 3 day conference without dinners and lunches: $55.00 only 2. Dinner per individual is: $35.00 3. Lunch per individual is: $25.00 4. Table of 10 is:$159.00 per individual including all, dinners, lunches, refreshments and presentations. 5. individual is:$175.00 including everything please register through: interfaith@naz.edu by July 20, 2017.and mail the check written to Nazareth College, Hickey Center on the address below This is a unique and significant conference to hear academic scholars on issues of women and gender.. Please visit our website for details: https://www2.naz.edu/interfait h/programs/academic-conference s/sacred-texts-human-contexts/ schedule/ 2. Global Citizenship Immersion: Building Skills and Knowledge for a Diverse World (For high school students) August 7-11, 2017 Nazareth College, Golisano Academic Center, Room 233 from 1:00PM-8:00PM This week-long academic immersion program is designed for students in grades 9 through 12 but open to college freshman also.For details, please go to our website:https://www2.naz.edu/i nterfaith/programs/workshops-t raining/next-generation/ The last date for registration is July 20, 2017, registration fee is $95.00 includes refreshments and suppers. To register, email: cisd@naz.edu or call:(585) 389-2963 Contact Nora Bradbury Haehl" the program coordinator for any question. Please circulate it to your friends and students. 3.Interfaith Immersion with concentration on leadership Skills and Conflict Management. A week-long non-credit certificate course with spiritual journeys to places of worship. Monday Aug 7th to Friday Aug 11, 2017, 1:30 pm to 8:30 pm Nazareth College Golisano Academic Center Room # 235 Registration Information (Deadline July 20, 2017): Program Fee: $179.00 which includes suppers and visits to places of worship. This week long interfaith course is designed for professionals, business managers, teachers, religious leaders, and social workers for cultural and religious diversity training. Please email Rev. Gordon Webster: revgvw@gmail.com is the program coordinator for any question. Register by email: interfaith@naz.edu or call: (585) 389-2963. for program details, see: https://www2.naz.edu/interfait h/programs/workshops-training/ train-trainers/ Limited number of scholarships are available. Please write a check to Nazareth College, Hickey Center and mail it to my attention on the College address

Description:

Description: Good news: Nazareth College, Hickey Center is pleased to invite you to its 3 day international conference on Sacred Texts and Human Contexts: Women and Gender on July 30-Aug1, 2017. Some 51 scholars from around the world will be presenting their research papers on Women and Gender from different religious perspectives.The Conference tentative schedule is attached below. Three known and reputed women scholars will be keynote and they are:

July 30, 6:15, Dinner Keynote: Rabbi Dr. Rachel Sabath -Halachmi, "Gender and Judaism: The Ethics of Transformation
July 31, 12:30PM Luncheon Keynote: Dr. Asma Afsaruddin,“The Qur'an, Gender, and Feminist Interpretations”

July 31, 6:00PM, Dinner Keynote: Dr. Mary E. Hunt, "Religious Dynamism and Feminist Action: Anchors of Contemporary Spirituality”

The conference is open now to 87 participants: Registration Options are:

1. individuals participating in the 3 day conference without dinners and lunches: $55.00 only

2. Dinner per individual is: $35.00

3. Lunch per individual is: $25.00

4. Table of 10 is:$159.00 per individual including all, dinners, lunches, refreshments and presentations.

5. individual is:$175.00 including everything

please register through: interfaith@naz.edu by July 1, 2017.and mail the check written to Nazareth College, Hickey Center on the address below

This is a unique and significant conference to hear academic scholars on issues of women and gender.. Please visit our website for details: https://www2.naz.edu/interfaith/programs/academic-conferences/sacred-texts-human-contexts/schedule/

Thanks-
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Muhammad Shafiq, Ph.D.
Professor & Executive Director
Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue
IIIT Interfaith Studies Chair
Nazareth College
4245 East Avenue, Rochester NY, 14618
www2.naz.edu/interfaith
cisd@naz.edu
(585)-389-2963

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!