Dr. Kazique Jelani Prince – Acclaimed leader with a distinguished and accomplished career, carving out a reputation as a dynamic and comprehensive communicator and trusted adviser. Governed by a focused vision for the future and fueled by a passion to make a difference in the new global economy. Considerable experience in the areas of Project & Program Management, Diversity & Inclusion Management, and Cross-functional Leadership Development. Owns a powerful understanding of people and what motivates them, drawing upon unique skill set to effectively sell, counsel and encourage others towards meaningful, lasting change. Inspired change agent who seeks the broader view in all situations, drawing upon resources and deep knowledge base to assist others in utilizing their own strengths and capabilities. Trailblazes through opposition, spearheading forward-thinking, cutting-edge initiatives and programs while successfully uniting team members behind common goals.

Jeremy Solomons –  Jeremy Solomons is an independent facilitator and passionate advocate for human rights and racial equality. Based now in Austin, Texas, he has felt the personal sting of prejudice, bias and discrimination when growing up as an Orthodox Jew in his native England and since then he has pledged his life to bringing everyone into a constructive dialogue and sustainable action to address and eradicate the evils of inequality, injustice and racism.

Austin’s Sunday Supper & Peace Through Pie Social Community Partners

• Amigos de las Americas Austin Chapter
• Hyde Park Neighborhood Association
• Peace Through Pie
• Southwest Texas Methodist Federation for Social Action
• Trinity United Methodist Church

America’s Sunday Supper Info and National Sponsors

• America’s Sunday Supper
• United Methodist Communications
• HandsOn Network
• Points of Light Institute
• General Board of Church & Society of The United Methodist Church

Sat, Jan 11th 9:30am, Bethany UMC Ministry Center, 10010 Anderson Mill Rd, 78750

Alperovitz’s latest book is What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution, in which he argues for a new-economy movement that can democratize the ownership of wealth, strengthen communities in diverse ways, and be governed by policies and institutions sophisticated enough to manage a large-scale, powerful economy. http://whatthenmustwedo.org/#

He is also the author of America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy, which diagnoses the long-term structural crisis of the American economic and political system, and Unjust Deserts: Wealth and Equality in the Knowledge Economy (with Lew Daly), Making a Place For Community (with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio), Rebuilding America (with Jeff Faux),Atomic Diplomacy and The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb.

Alperovitz is a founding principal of the University of Maryland-based Democracy Collaborative, http://democracycollaborative.org/ a research institution developing practical, policy-focused, and systematic paths towards ecologically sustainable, community-oriented change and the democratization of wealth.

The Saturday morning gathering will begin at 8:30 am with coffee and a light breakfast. The first panel at 9:15 am, “Worker Cooperatives 101,” will feature Cooperation Texas staff and worker/owners on the basics of worker cooperatives. The second panel at 10:45 am will feature Alperovitz in conversation with Don Baylor (the Senior Policy Analyst on Economic Opportunity for the Center for Public Policy Priorities) on “The Way Forward,” discussing challenges and opportunities in building the new economy.

The events are sponsored by the University United Methodist Church and Cooperation Texas, http://cooperationtexas.coop/ an Austin-based non-profit committed to the creation of sustainable jobs through the development, support and promotion of worker-owned cooperatives.

More information online https://www.facebook.com/events/668747903160142/?source=1 or contact Robert Jensen,rjensen@austin.utexas.edu.

Location (Friday): University United Methodist Church, 2409 Guadalupe St., Austin, 78705 (free parking available; see map at http://www.uumc.org/?q=node/76)

Location (Saturday): 5604 Manor, 5604 Manor Road, Austin, 78723 http://www.5604manor.org/

UNITED METHODIST WOMEN in TEXAS

26th Annual LEGISLATIVE EVENT 

Program planned and produced by Texas Impact 

A Thousand Voices: Telling the Story of Texas

JANUARY 26-28, 2014

Austin, Texas 

The 26th Annual United Methodist Women’s Legislative Event is a joint project of Texas’ five United Methodist Annual Conferences and Texas Impact.  This year’s theme is “A Thousand Voices: Telling the Story of Texas.” It is a time to learn the latest on the issues, meet with state leaders, and visit the Texas Capitol.

Legislative Event is a national model educational program that brings together women of all ages and backgrounds to learn how state government works, what key issues face Texas, and how to advocate effectively on issues they care about.

Registration is unlimited and the event is open to women of all faiths. Read more about the event and register here.

Saturday, January 30, 7-9 pm

St. James Episcopal Church, 1941 Webberville Rd, Austin, 78721

Ron Chisom, co-founder of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, and  Joe Barndt, parish pastor, author, and antiracism trainer for 30 years, will share what they’ve learned in their decades of activism throughout the country.

Local leaders will join the discussion and talk about particular challenges and ways of engaging people in the Austin area.

This is a rare opportunity to talk with nationally renowned speakers and mingle with local folks about what we can do to undo racism in 2014.

Local church choirs and individuals gather to look at new worship music, improve vocal skills and praise God in song. Join the mighty chorus of small church and large church choral groups, ensembles, and individual participants. Sponsored by the Conference Board of Discipleship Music and Worship Team.

Adult Choral Workshop 

January 31 & February 1, 2014

First UMC

Corpus Christi

Clinician:

Mark A Miller

Minister Of Music

     Christ Church

  Summit, NJ

For information contact:

Rev. David Miron, Design Team Chair

Brad Kisner, Site Coordinator

Carl Hart on “We Got Hoodwinked: The Problem Is Drug Policy, not Drugs”

Date: February 6, 2014

Time: 7:00 pm  to  9:00 pm

Dr. Carl Hart will speak about the myths concerning drug use and the consequences of contemporary drug policy. Drawing on his scientific work and social analysis, Hart goes beyond the hype to examine the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. His findings shed new light on common ideas about race, poverty, and drugs and explain why current policies are failing.

Hart teaches in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University, and is a Research Scientist in the Division of Substance Abuse at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is a member of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse and on the board of directors of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and the Drug Policy Alliance. A native of Miami, Hart earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology and neuroscience at the University of Wyoming.

Hart’s talk will draw on his 2013 book, High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society, in which he writes not only about his academic work but life growing up in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his pioneering work in drug addiction. Hart escaped neighborhoods that were dominated by entrenched poverty but has not turned his back on that world since becoming Columbia University’s first tenured African American professor in the sciences. Determined to make a difference, he applies his science to help save real lives.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by St. James’ Episcopal Church, the Third Coast Activist Resource Center, and the University of Texas Department of Psychology, Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, and Division of Diversity and Community Engagement.

For more information, contact Robert Jensen at rjensen@austin.utexas.edu. If you need accommodations for this event, please contact Betty Jeanne Taylor at bjwtaylor@austin.utexas.edu at least five days in advance.

Location: St. James’ Episcopal Church, 1941 Webberville Road, Austin, 78721