Tag: activism

24 Nov 2024: Jimmy Tingle

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Sunday, November 24, 2024 10:00 AM Through the adroit use of common sense, comedy, and commentary, Jimmy can help us figure out how to breathe, trust, and find common ground.  This new film is a deep dive into the murky world of politics. Running time is approximately 58 minutes and a Question-and-Answer session will follow the screening. Cambridge native Jimmy Tingle is a political humorist who has had extensive experience in film, theater and television. Learn more at 10 a.m. … Continue reading 24 Nov 2024: Jimmy Tingle

9 Jun 2024: Emerging Concerns about the Pilgrim Nuclear Decommissioning Process

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Sunday, June 9, 2024 10:00 AM Join us as Diane Turco provides a regional perspective on the nuclear irradiated water issue in the Plymouth area, specifically addressing the nuclear-contaminated water release from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. She will shed light on how this issue impacts our oceans and our health. Diane Turco is the director of Cape Downwinders, a grassroots activist organization with the goal to protect our communities and environment from the dangers present at the Pilgrim Nuclear … Continue reading 9 Jun 2024: Emerging Concerns about the Pilgrim Nuclear Decommissioning Process

18 Feb 2024: FCEN’s Lessons Learned: Becoming Climate-Engaged Activist

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Sunday, February 18, 2024 10:00 AM Join us to hear advocacy insights from the Faith Communities Environmental Network as Susan Starkey engages us in exploring three ongoing climate-related challenges: a proposed Machine Gun Range at Joint Base Cape Cod, the Offshore Wind industry’s growth off our shores, and a national effort to stop Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) from being developed and exported.  At the end of this discussion, you will have the opportunity to send handwritten letters to legislators. Susan … Continue reading 18 Feb 2024: FCEN’s Lessons Learned: Becoming Climate-Engaged Activist

12 Mar 2023: “The Mind and Mindset behind Humor for Humanity” with Jimmy Tingle

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10:00 a.m. Sunday, March 12, 2023 For years, Boston comedy and theater fans have known what Jimmy Tingle does, now Humor for Humanity gives audiences a glimpse of why he does it. Humor for Humanity is Tingle’s new social enterprise focused on making meaningful change in the world. The mission is to use comedy, commentary and conversation through social media, radio, television and live events to raise spirits, funds and awareness for non profits, charities and social causes. For our Sunday … Continue reading 12 Mar 2023: “The Mind and Mindset behind Humor for Humanity” with Jimmy Tingle

27 Mar 2022: “Question Authority: The Radical Life and Times of Jessica Mitford” with Carla Kaplan

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Program for Sunday, March 27, 2022 Carla Kaplan shares insights from her book-length study of social activist Jessica Mitford, “Queen of the Muckrakers.” Beginning with her 1963 blockbuster The American Way of Death –an exposé of the funeral industry’s exploitation of the poor–Mitford’s writing revived, and radicalized, Gilded Age ideas of civic responsibility in ways which continue to impact contemporary debates over social inequality, whistle blowing, and the ethics of writing. Kaplan shows us how Mitford’s life choices and intellectual … Continue reading 27 Mar 2022: “Question Authority: The Radical Life and Times of Jessica Mitford” with Carla Kaplan

20 Feb 2022: “Simply Perfect for Times Like These” with Pancheta Peterson

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Program for Sunday, February 20, 2022 Poets and their poems are gifts—sometimes serious, often amazing. Poetry, such as that delivered by Amanda Gorman and Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance, has carried us emotionally through these difficult times, reminding us of what others have successfully endured. Pancheta Peterson will share some poems she hopes will be encouraging, assuring us that we are stronger than we think, reminding us of the inner strength we all have been exhibiting. Pancheta Peterson is … Continue reading 20 Feb 2022: “Simply Perfect for Times Like These” with Pancheta Peterson

13 Feb 2022: “What about the Water? Emerging Concerns about Pilgrim Nuclear’s Decommissioning Process”: with Diane Turco

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Program for Sunday, February 13, 2022 Last spring, Diane Turco joined us to explain why nuclear power is not a green solution because it produces radioactive waste. Cape residents, through citizen petitions, have expressed their concerns over the storage of spent fuel rods. But now there’s more: over 1 million gallons of water, contaminated by radioactivity and more. What exactly is in the water, what are the options for disposal and who decides? Diane joins us again on February 13 … Continue reading 13 Feb 2022: “What about the Water? Emerging Concerns about Pilgrim Nuclear’s Decommissioning Process”: with Diane Turco

19 Sep 2021: “Ellen LeBow Turns Her Gaze on (her) Haiti”

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Program for Sunday, September 19, 2021 After the devastating earthquake and hurricane in August this year in Haiti, following the assassination of the president, the Fellowship takes a look and leads a discussion about this special place, home of the first slave uprising in the New World. In “Haiti, I’m Sorry” (PI, 9/2/21) Ellen LeBow shares impressions from the many ways and the 25 years she has come to see and feel Haiti’s people, especially those from one island community where she … Continue reading 19 Sep 2021: “Ellen LeBow Turns Her Gaze on (her) Haiti”

25 Jul 2021: “After the Apocalypse” with Andrew Bacevich

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Program for Sunday, July 25, 2021 The 2020 Apocalypse “exposed weakness and rot in institutions whose integrity Americans had long taken for granted,” historian Andrew Bacevich explains in the introduction to his latest book. Join him for a reflection on recent events and America’s changing role in the world. How do we escape the endless fantasy of American power? After recognizing the hubris and error of American Exceptionalism, how might we act as a nation in a world transformed?  Andrew … Continue reading 25 Jul 2021: “After the Apocalypse” with Andrew Bacevich

28 Mar 2021: “Nuclear Power to Save the Climate?” with Diane Turco

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Program for Sunday, March 28, 2021 Now that Pilgrim Power Station in Plymouth is closed, there is serious concern over the ongoing and long term storage of nuclear waste in dry casks. Holtec’s decommissioning of the Pilgrim plant is proceeding with minimal federal regulations and poses new dangers for the surrounding communities. However, these dangers are sometimes neutralized by the belief that nuclear power helps reduce greenhouse gases and is therefore deserving of support from climate activists. Diane Turco and … Continue reading 28 Mar 2021: “Nuclear Power to Save the Climate?” with Diane Turco