BUF Black Lives Matter Ministry Action Team
Minutes - April 5, 2021 Business/Planning Meeting
The meeting, on Zoom, began
at 6 pm. Present were: Murray Bennett, Lauralee Carbone, David Curley, Barbara
Gilday, Amoret Heise, Tom Kirschner, Claire Lending, Cat McIntyre and Henry
Ohana
Anti-Racism Minutes:
April
11 Barbara Gilday
– Report on ABC
April
18 Cat
McIntyre, on Rapid Response
April
25 Lauralee
Carbone
May
2 Henry Ohana will find
someone
Remember to alert Rev.
Paul on or before the Wednesday before the service
where you will speak that you’re giving the anti-racism minute at that service.
Program Planning:
April 12 – Activity to write
letters on Resolution 1 (filibuster), and HR 40 reparations. We will state
brief description of each and encourage those attending to write together to
Congress people. Hank will send article on reparations. The Faith Action
Network has a list of important legislation that is in the
offine. We will also discuss whether to use other means to advise congregation
to write
May 10: Beginning
of five monthly meetings where we watch and discuss “Amend,” available on
Netflix
Beloved Conversations
2:
Evaluation of Beloved
Conversations 1 –a short eval questionnaire sent out today to 35 people, six
responses already. Other resources, possibly local: Kim Harris, WCC,
WP&JC; and the speaker at Fall 2019 How to talk to your Racist Uncle. We
need to assess cost of each
ABC: Lauralee, scholarship
at USF, mentorship program at WWU, Erica Malllin and Barbara Gilday co-chair
Phone Tree. Working well; we will request additional
interest as part of April 18 anti-racism minute. We also want to
ascertain the condition/adequacy of BUF banner; the one used on April 3 is
small and plain. Is there another in the SEJC closet??
Next Business Planning
Meeting: May 3, 6 pm
Next Program
Meetings: April 12, 7 pm and May 10, 7 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Cat McIntyre, co-facilitator
BUF Black Lives Matter
Ministry Action Team
