Goals
       Plans
       Membership
       News

Our next Social Action Committee Meeting will be:
    on Tuesday, October 8, 2002
    from 7:30 to 8:45ish
    at Jerry Rubin's House
    call 617-787-4280 or email for his address

Our preliminary agenda is:
      1.  Plans for this year (see proposal below)
      2.  CityYear Servathon Planning
      3.  Social Action Speaker for Sunday Service (March 2)
      4.  Justice for Janitors Campaign
      5.  Updates: GBIO and any other "partners"?
      6.  Other business
      7.  Plan next meeting

Proposed Plan for the year:
    a.  CityYear Servathon
    b.  Social Action Speaker for Sunday Service
    c.  Passover Food Delivery
    d.  Fundraiser
    e.  Make/Keep connections to: GBIO, Workman's Circle, JfJ, New Israel
    f.  Be a resource for the congregation and Sunday School
    g.  Organize a child-centered activity
    h. The Project Food
    i.  Environmental Subcommittee (canoe trip?)
    j.  Regular Committee Discussion

Goals

         1.  Enhance the congregation’s awareness of social justice issues* 

         2.  Facilitate the congregation’s involvement in social justice actions 

         3.  Build relationships with other organizations that deal with social action issues, e.g. GBIO, COEJL, Workman’s Circle, New Israel Fund 

         4.  Seek to involve children in our activities and programs 

         * Social justice issues include the following, especially when dealt with from a Jewish and/or humanistic perspective: 

                 civil and human rights, including: 
                      women’s rights 
                      gay rights 
                      religious pluralism 
                environmental issues 
                economic and class issues 
                our focus on social justice spans: 
                      local 
                      national 
                      international 
                      supranational (Israel) 

  Plans

         organize KB's participation in the City Year Servathon 
         organize KB's participation in Passover Food Delivery 
         organize KB's participation in The Food Project 
         organize an activity especially for children 
         organize and lead a canoe or nature tour 
         sponsor KB Spring Fundraiser 
         maintain the congregation’s active membership in GBIO and encourage the participation of the congregation in GBIO activities 
         be a resource to the congregation and the Sunday School 
         secure social action speaker for a KB Sunday Service 
         seek/maintain connections to GBIO, JFJ, New Israel, Workman's Circle 

  Membership

2002-2003 Chairs:
Philip Katz and Jerry Rubin

Members:
Beth Bandes, Michael Bandes, Dick Bauer, Roberta Bauer, Mitchell Hilton, Joanne Kaplan, Les Kaufman, Richard Krushnic, Marilyn Levine, Vincent O'Donnell, Fran Osten, Susan Parsons, Ellen Sugarman

  News

         The KB Social Action Committee is organizing a KB team to participate in the City Year Servathon on October 26, 2002.  

Each year we have had a great team of KB members, including older kids and the youth group, volunteering at sites around the Boston area. Projects in the past have included painting a Dorchester youth center, painting and cleaning a Roxbury school, and making improvements to a YMCA tot lot. We don't yet know what this year's project will be but should know soon.  If you would like to participate, please call Jerry Rubin at 617-787-4280 or email him at jrubin2957@aol.com  And, if you would like to be a team captain, which involves picking the project and helping to organize the day, please let Jerry know.

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