World Beyond War in Central Florida

10/26/2024

Women’s March
Saturday November 2 at 11am-12:30pm
Lake Sumter Landing Town Square

On November 2nd, thousands of feminists will converge in Washington, D.C., and across the nation, and in our home towns to show the strength of our feminist movement.

This will be a non-partisan event, and no campaigning will be allowed. Bring yourselves, bring your signs. As we walk, we must stay on the sidewalks and not impede the flow of traffic.

SPEAKERS:
Dorothy Dobbs, Sisters of Suffrage
Rosemary Niles, former head of MOMS Demand Action, Citrus County
Rev. Kristina Spaude, Minister for Tri-County Unitarian Universalists in Summerfield, FL and the UU Congregation of Lake County in Eustis, FL

We support:
The right to live free from violence and discrimination
The right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
The right to be educated
The right to vote
The right to earn an equal wage

Click on this link to sign up:
National Womens March ·

On November 2nd, thousands of feminists will converge in Washington, D.C., and across the nation, to show the strength of our feminist movement. In D.C. Join us for our own March in the Villages on Nov. 2. We will meet at Sumter Square at 11:00 am. This will be a non-partisan event and no campaignin...

07/24/2024

Harris for President Golf Cart Caravan Saturday in The Villages!

We are about 100 days away from the most important election of our lives!

The Harris campaign in Florida asked us to rally as part of statewide and nationwide demonstrations of enthusiasm for Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy to finish the job she started with President Joe Biden.

DETAILS

Come in your golf cart the Barnes & Noble Bookstore parking lot in Lake Sumter Landing by 12:30 p.m., Saturday. Arrive decorated, please. The Harris campaign will be bringing signs.

You also can choose to stand along the route, waving signs and cheering.

The campaign is working on getting a well-known-in-Florida campaign surrogate to address the crowd and lead the caravan.

This will be a joyful display of our optimism for success in November.

Please register your planned participation at the link below.

Let's go
https://mobilize.us/s/EyH4rP/r

06/03/2024

Must read! Everyone should know what a broad array of very well-informed diplomats, journalists, Secretaries of Defense, academics, and others across the political spectrum warned about the war in Ukraine.

It took some years for Americans to realize they'd been lied to about the war in Vietnam. Thanks to the publication of the Pentagon Papers, and thanks to the antiwar movement, Americans eventually learned about the injustices and failures of that war.

04/22/2024

Join Tri-County Unitarian Universalists for our Last Monthly Forum until the Fall.
Friday, May 10, 2024
at 4 PM
Dr. Mark Welton will discuss “War Crimes: Ukraine, Israel and Gaza”
The conflicts in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza have raised serious questions and concerns about war crimes. This talk gives a brief overview of what constitutes war crimes, and focuses on how war crimes might be dealt with in the current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza.

Dr. Welton received his undergraduate education at Stanford University, and a master's degree in International Relations from Boston University. He also holds three law degrees: a JD from Georgetown University, an LLM (Masters of Law) and a SJD (PHD in Law) from the University of Virginia Law School.

Dr. Welton served 20 plus years and retired from active duty as an Army Judge Advocate working in international law, including as Chief of International Law for the US Army Europe; Legal Liaison Officer at the US Embassy in Germany; Senior Instructor of International and Operational Law at the Judge Advocate General's School; and Deputy Legal Advisor, US European Command.

In his second career as a civilian, he had the title of Professor of Discipline and Director of the Program in International and Comparative Law, at the US Military Academy, West Point. He directed and taught courses in US and Comparative Constitutional Law; Jurisprudence and Legal Theory; International Law; Comparative Legal Systems; and Islamic Law.

He has written books and journal chapters and lectured on these subjects at governmental and educational institutions in the US, Canada, and Europe. Dr. Welton retired as Professor emeritus from West Point and moved to The Villages, Florida in 2012.

All attendees are invited to share in a community potluck dinner following the discussion.

TriUU is located at 7280 SE 135th St. in Summerfield, FL. Please see TriUU.org for more information.

03/19/2024

We're trying to find members of Congress who will publicly commit to voting No[We're trying to find members of Congress who will publicly commit to voting No on military spending unless it's reduced and urge their colleagues to do the same.

03/02/2024

TriUU Monthly Forum
Friday, March 8, 4pm

Climate Change and Sea Level Rise
Don Chambers, Ph.D
Professor, College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Dr. Chambers holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. Dr. Chambers specializes in using satellite observations such as radar altimetry and satellite gravimetry to better understand ocean dynamics. His primary research focus is quantifying and understanding sea level variability, especially trying to separate natural climate variability from anthropogenic climate change. He is interested in all the dynamical processes that cause sea level change, including ocean circulation, ocean heat storage, ocean mass redistribution, and influx of fresh water from the continents and ice sheets.

Dr. Chambers has been a member of several NASA satellite Science Teams, including TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1, and is currently a member of the NASA Ocean Surface Topography and GRACE Science Teams, and is one of four U.S. scientists to serve on the joint NASA/European Space Agency Gravity Constellation Science Team. He has been a member of U.S. CLIVAR and is currently a Lead Author on the latest climate assessment by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr. Chambers was selected as the Bowie Lecturer for the 2013 Fall AGU Meeting.

A community Pot Luck dinner follows the presentation. Please join us. See TriUU.org for directions.

02/19/2024

Write My Name…

A poem by Zeina Azzam

Write my name on my leg, Mama
Use the black permanent marker
with the ink that doesn’t bleed
if it gets wet, the one that doesn’t melt
if it’s exposed to heat
Write my name on my leg, Mama
Make the lines thick and clear
Add your special flourishes
so I can take comfort in seeing
my mama’s handwriting when I go to sleep
Write my name on my leg, Mama
and on the legs of my sisters and brothers
This way we will belong together
This way we will be known
as your children
Write my name on my leg, Mama
and please write your name
and Baba’s name on your legs, too
so we will be remembered
as a family
Write my name on my leg, Mama
Don’t add any numbers
like when I was born or the address of our home
I don’t want the world to list me as a number
I have a name and I am not a number
Write my name on my leg, Mama
When the bomb hits our house
When the walls crush our skulls and bones
our legs will tell our story, how
there was nowhere for us to run

Zeina Azzam is a poet, writer, editor, community activist, and current Poet Laureate of the City of Alexandria, VA.