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TOLEDO
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DOCUMENTARY
FILM: "DIVIDED WE FALL: AMERICANS IN THE
AFTERMATH"
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The
MultiFaith Council of Northwest Ohio, Maumee
Valley Unitarian Universalist Congregation, and
Toledo Sikhs present the award-winning
documentary film - Divided We Fall: Americans In
the Aftermath (2008) on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
20th, 7 p.m, at MVUUC, 20189 N. Dixie Highway,
Bowling Green, Ohio. Offering to cover expenses.
This feature-length documentary film on hate
violence following September 11, 2001, will
screen in 50 cities across the U.S. during
September in a grassroots campaigns for deep
dialogue about racism, religion and renewal in
America.
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Join
in on the 2008 Toledo Area CROP Hunger Walk:
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2008 at 1:30 pm at Ottawa and
Pearson Parks.
Organized locally, the
2008 Toledo Area CROP Hunger Walk has set a goal
of 200 Walkers and hopes to raise $8,000 to help
stop hunger and poverty here in our community
and around the world, through self-help
initiatives. A portion of the funds raised here
in Toledo will go to the hunger fighting food
pantries of Feed Your Neighbor, a ministry of
Toledo Area Ministries.
Last year, 150
Toledo area Walkers raised more than $5,000 in
the CROP Hunger Walk.
This year Toledo
and some 2,000 cities and towns nationwide are
joining together in interfaith community CROP
Hunger Walks around the theme "We Walk Because
They Walk." Many of the CROP Walkers will be
wearing "We walk because they walk" T-shirts,
proclaiming their solidarity with the millions
of neighbors around the world who have to walk
to live - as well as with the millions served by
local food pantries, food banks, and meal sites
here in the U.S. These local ministries share in
the funds raised by CROP Hunger
Walks.
Central America is one part of the
world where CROP Hunger Walks are making a big
difference. In Guatemala, for example,
indigenous families -- especially the women --
are learning how to grow more and better foods
for their families, using appropriate technology
such as greenhouses and catchment irrigation,
alongside creative solutions of their own design
-- used tires as mini-garden planters. They are
also learning how to organize themselves, how to
gain social and economic empowerment, and how to
market their extra harvest.
CROP Hunger
Walks continue to play a big role in the
continuing saga of U.S. Gulf Coast rebuilding.
More than three years after Hurricane Katrina,
Church World Service is working to get hundreds
of families out of FEMA trailers and into new or
repaired homes.
For more information
about the 2008 Toledo area CROP Hunger Walk,
contact Bobbi Anderson at 419/531-5765, or Kathy
Tashima at 419/882-0048.
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Mission
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(TAM), assisting congregations and church
leaders in meeting human need, creating
community and working for
justice.
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