Thursday, August 16, 2007

Friday 8/17:

Heat and Air Quatlity Alert: Alternate plans for weekly play & action group


Due to extreme heat this week and air quality alerts, Nashville's MAU Mobilize the Mamas play and action group will NOT meet at Centennial Park Playground tomorrow, Friday 8/17.

Instead, we will meet at our inclement weather plan place: the downtown public library on the second floor -- 10-noonish. We can free play, snack and roam the courtyard, and also attend a special storytime event with Ginger Sands and Friends: http://www.library.nashville.org/events/show/176

Bring lunch or snacks for post show courtyard time.

This month's action is as follows:

I was in 10,000 Villages the other day and came across these pamphlets distributed by the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), www.mcc.org, on how a community can put together school kits for children displaced by war. I thought this would be a great opportunity for our local MAU community to support the world's children in a very concrete way. The pamphlet reads as follows:

"School kits are MCC's most requested item. They are given primarily to refugee children, helping students and teachers add some normalcy to disrupted lives. Countries receiving shipments include Afghanistan, Liberia, Sudan, Bosnia, Haiti, Nicaragua, Colombia, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, North Korea, Iraq and Palestine.

Contents (NEW items only)

4 spiral notebooks or notebooks with perforations (about 21.5 cm x 27 cm/8in x 10.5in; about 70 - 80 sheets each)

4 unsharpened #2 pencils

1 ruler (flat flexible plastic, indicating both 30cm and 12in)

12 colored pencils (in packaging)

1 large pencil eraser

School kits are distributed in a useful double drawstring cloth bag (28cm x 40.6cm/11in x 16in). You may sew the bag yourself (instructions at www.mcc.org/kits/kitbags), request bags from an MCC collection center, or donate contents to be placed in a bag."

10,000 Villages requests that we get the materials to their store no later than August 31, leaving us the rest of the month to get these kits together. Let's aim for 5 complete kits. You can bring the materials to me directly, or bring them to upcoming August Friday gatherings at Centennial, or to the potluck this Friday. If you're interested in contributing, please email me and let me know what you'd like to give and I can coordinate it so we don't all choose colored pencils or erasers.

Kate

kzwingate@yahoo.com

Mothers Acting Up -- Killowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America screening

Friday, August 17, 6pm
Nashville MAU's Bring the Family Potluck Social & Salon held at Nashville Friends Meeting House; 530 26th Ave. N

Nashville MAU invites the community to gather for a potluck supper and a special screening of Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America, an acclaimed documentary designed to help consumers cut their energy bills and improve the quality of the environment through conservation methods and clean, renewable power sources. This is a family friendly venue and filmaker Jeff Barrie will be present! Drinks will be provided, but please bring a dish to share. The suggested $8 donation per family covers both the film and the Friends Meeting House care fee. Come one, come all! Contact Paige at paige@mothersactingup.org or call (615) 495-1879 for more information.

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