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Politics, Quakers, Conlangs, and lots more Sun, 06 May 2012 23:32:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © From The Half-Red House 2010 jgiddings@igc.org (From The Half-Red House) jgiddings@igc.org (From The Half-Red House) http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress 144 144 Just another WordPress weblog From The Half-Red House From The Half-Red House jgiddings@igc.org no no http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2012/05/06/sheila-garretts-talk-at-monadnock-meeting-on-her-travels-in-the-mininstry-last-year/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2012/05/06/sheila-garretts-talk-at-monadnock-meeting-on-her-travels-in-the-mininstry-last-year/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 23:32:40 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=500 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2012/05/06/sheila-garretts-talk-at-monadnock-meeting-on-her-travels-in-the-mininstry-last-year/feed/ 0 1:05:52 Here is a streaming version of Sheila’s talk: Here is a streaming version of Sheila’s talk: Uncategorized jgiddings@igc.org no no http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2012/04/12/wuml-radio-on-the-social-web/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2012/04/12/wuml-radio-on-the-social-web/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:08:53 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=491 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2012/04/12/wuml-radio-on-the-social-web/feed/ 0 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/07/17/we-humans-really-dont-know-what-to-do-about-global-warming/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/07/17/we-humans-really-dont-know-what-to-do-about-global-warming/#comments Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:42:38 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=479 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/07/17/we-humans-really-dont-know-what-to-do-about-global-warming/feed/ 0 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/06/28/weave-mars-is-the-second-planet-visualized/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/06/28/weave-mars-is-the-second-planet-visualized/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:01:40 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=471 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/06/28/weave-mars-is-the-second-planet-visualized/feed/ 0 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/25/protest-at-concord-nh-march-24-2011/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/25/protest-at-concord-nh-march-24-2011/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:22:30 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=446 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/25/protest-at-concord-nh-march-24-2011/feed/ 1 0:00:30 About five hundred outraged citizens, many of them firefighters, teachers and other union members, showed up to protest one amendment to the 2011 budget bill (HR2) at the Legislative Office Building (LOB) across the street from the State House. The [...] About five hundred outraged citizens, many of them firefighters, teachers and other union members, showed up to protest one amendment to the 2011 budget bill (HR2) at the Legislative Office Building (LOB) across the street from the State House. The Kurk amendment destroys collective bargaining in New Hampshire by reducing all workers covered by a contract to “at-will” employees if their union reaches an impasse in negotiations with their (government) employers. For those in the more civilized countries of the world, an “at-will” employee is one who may be fired at any time, whose terms of employment can be changed at any time by his/her boss; most countries require employment contracts that spell out the rights and duties of employers and employees, but in the US “at-will” is the default contract under which most of us (and virtually all non-union employees) must work. The committee that approved the amendment met in a small room with seating for only 40 members of the press and general public. The rest of the crowd packed two floors of the LOB and the courtyard in front of the building. A delegation of firefighters and police union members went across the street to ask the Speaker of the House to convene the committee meeting int he great hall of the capitol, where there would be room for more of the public, but they were not allowed to meet with him. This Concord Monitor story gives the details of the hearing and the issues fairly well.  This WMUR video clip shows a little of what happened in the hearing room. A larger demonstration is planned for next Thursday, when the full budget bill is voted on by the entire 400-plus-member lower house of the state legislature.  There  will be fireworks Demonstrators Outside Legislative Office Building Welcome to Newconsin! A humorous play on words based on the name of the union-busting legislator from Weare A Chartered Bus Disgorges Union Members at the LOB Activism, Blogging jgiddings@igc.org no no http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/08/436/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/08/436/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:00:40 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=436 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/08/436/feed/ 0 1:11:23 Hear Rev. Liana Rowe’s talk given at the Union Congregational Church in Peterborough NH on March 7, 2011 (podcast included at bottom of post). Rev. Liana Rowe   NEWS RELEASE Union Congregational Church March 7, 2011 uccpboro@myfairpoint.[...] Hear Rev. Liana Rowe’s talk given at the Union Congregational Church in Peterborough NH on March 7, 2011 (podcast included at bottom of post). Rev. Liana Rowe   NEWS RELEASE Union Congregational Church March 7, 2011 uccpboro@myfairpoint.net United Church of Christ NH Conference and the American Friends Service Committee NH Program presented a talk by Rev. Liana Rowe, a minister in the Southwest Conference of the United Church of Christ who is active in the movement for humane immigration policies The talk was intended to help New Hampshire residents understand what is at stake in the immigration debate. Rev. Liana Rowe, a minister in the Southwest Conference of the United Church of Christ, will give a presentation at Union Congregational Church, UCC, 33 Concord St. in Peterborough on Monday March 7 at 7:00 pm. Rev. Rowe, a resident of N. Phoenix, has been working for humane immigration policies for more than ten years. She sits on the Board of Directors for Humane Borders, a humanitarian organization that maintains water stations in remote desert regions of Southern Arizona.  She has also been active with the Somos America/We Are America Coalition in advocating for human and civil rights in Arizona.  Rev. Rowe was 2011 recipient of the City of Phoenix Martin Luther King, Jr. Living the Dream Award. Rev. Rowe was accompanied by Eva Castillo Turgeon, who leads the NH Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees, and Arnie Alpert of AFSC-NH. “We were profoundly disturbed by the passage last year of SB1070, the harshest anti-immigrant legislation in the country, by the Arizona Legislature,” said the Rev. Mary Westfall, chair of the UCC NH Conference’s Commission on Witness and Action.  “This legislation, which codifies racial profiling and creates an atmosphere of suspicion, hatred, and scapegoating of immigrants and U.S citizens, was opposed by the UCC’s Southwest Conference,” Rev. Westfall added. At its 2010 annual meeting, the NH Conference of the United Church of Christ adopted a resolution calling for solidarity with immigrants and with the Southwest Conference of the UCC.  The resolution called on church members “to consider prayer, study, protest, and other possible actions for immigrant rights, and that the NHCUCC will mobilize our congregations for just and fair Federal Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” “Rev. Rowe’s tour will be an excellent opportunity for us to act in the spirit of the resolution we adopted in October,” said Rev. Westfall, who serves as pastor of the Durham Community Church. “With the legislature considering several bills dealing with immigration, Rev. Rowe’s visit is especially timely,” said Arnie Alpert of the American Friends Service Committee, which is co-sponsoring Rev. Rowe’s tour. The United Church of Christ is New Hampshire’s largest Protestant group, with 139 churches and 23,000 members across the state. The American Friends Service Committee is a Quaker organization whose work for social justice includes a commitment to humane immigration reform. ### For more information about Rev. Rowe’s presentation, please contact Union Congregational Church, UCC, at 603-924-3272 or uccpboro@myfairpoint.net. Activism, Immigration, quaker jgiddings@igc.org no no http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/05/first-cell-phone-pictures/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/05/first-cell-phone-pictures/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:51:53 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=430 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/05/first-cell-phone-pictures/feed/ 2 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/05/denise-and-family-in-fantasy-pose-1957/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/05/denise-and-family-in-fantasy-pose-1957/#comments Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:40:35 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=428 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/03/05/denise-and-family-in-fantasy-pose-1957/feed/ 0 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/02/06/death-penalty-in-nh-arnie-alpert/ http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/02/06/death-penalty-in-nh-arnie-alpert/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:03:30 +0000 admin http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/?p=423 http://halfredhouse.biz/wordpress/2011/02/06/death-penalty-in-nh-arnie-alpert/feed/ 1 1:05:50 On Sunday, Arnie Alpert of the New Hampshire office of the American Friends Service Committee came to visit Monadnock Meeting and update us on activity in the movement to end the death penalty in New Hampshire. 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