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CCB Highlights, Events & Announcements: An Evening with Dear Friends, Welcome to our 2018-2019 Season! Check out our extraordinary lineup of fall programs David Cay Johnston at The Community Church of Boston. We have a full plate of offerings for you, on Sun- days and on some weeknights... talks, concerts, plays, readings. We cannot be prouder of this fall schedule! HERE IS A NOTE TO YOU ABOUT OUR START TIMES. We are going back and forth between morning and afternoon services. We have had good response and good attendance to Sunday afternoon events. We also don’t want to abandon the time-honored Sunday morning service/luncheon that has served us well for many decades. It looks like as a rule, the artistic flavored events, plays, poetry readings or musical celebrations, will CONGREGATION SINCE 1920 SINCE CONGREGATION and A JUSTICE be held in the afternoon. But check our newsletter, our Facebook page, or our website, for PEACE start times of each Sunday event. Photo: Bonk Johnston Reviving Democracy We’d also like to highlight some special evening gatherings: David Cay Johnston, highly 02116 MA Boston, respected journalist, tax attorney and Donald Trump researcher and author, will join us on Street Boylston 565 in the Age of Trump Friday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 PM. You might have seen David’s appearances as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC and Democracy Now, or his gazillion-view youtube talks. Get your Join CCB for an evening with David Cay Johnston, advance tickets at the church, or at www.brownpapertickets.com. Friday, October 19, 2018 at 7:30PM On Sat. Nov. 3, we host the return of our favorite People’s Troubadour, David Rovics. Lothrop Auditorium In the midst of his perpetual World Tour, David has graced CCB’s stage dozens of times, always with new gems to share. When we hear that David is coming, we drop everything CCB SUNDAYS & MORE DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, a Pulitzer prize/winning investigative to hear his new songs. reporter, has covered Donald Trump for more than 30 years, longer than any other journalist. Last year he published part of Trump’s We have, for several years now, in collaboration with NEC professor Warren Send- September 30 - December 2, 2018 2005 tax return. In 1990 Johnston broke the story that Trump was ers, hosted a bi-annual World Music series, entitled, Playing for the Planet, a benefit no billionaire. for the climate activists at www.350.org. Saturday, Dec. 8 is our next concert, featur- ing Shyam Nepali (Nepal), Do Yeon Kim (Korea) and The Hammonds with Dean Johnston wrote the international bestsellers The Making of Donald Trump (2016) and It’s Even Worse Than You Think (2018) and Stevens (USA). Join us. September 30 at 11:00 AM five other books. We invite you not only to attend these events, BUT TO BECOME A MEMBER OF At age 19 he became a front page staff writer at the San Jose Mer- CCB. Take ownership of this church, this jewel of the Boston activist/spiritual scene. cury and went on for 40 years to uncover scandals for the Detroit Become involved in our program decisions. Find out about our historic downtown Copley Free Press, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and The Square building. She’s been ours for 72 years, warts, headaches and all. She has pretty New York Times. He is now editor-in-chief of DCReport.org, a solid bones, but during the upcoming years we will be undertaking extensive/expensive War and Peace nonprofit new service. repairs and maintenance on 565 Boylston. Take ownership of this resource in the heart of Limited Seating • Tickets Available at brownpapertickets.com the city. Help us decide how best to be her steward, and how best to use her to comfort the afflicted, and to afflict the comfortable. Community Church of Boston in the Age of Trump 565 Boylston Street, 2nd fl., Boston, MA 02116 And yes, we’re almost 100 years old!! Help us start to plan our big anniversary in 2020! www.communitychurchofboston.org • [email protected] See you soon, at CCB! –Dean Stevens with Stephen Kinzer CCB HIGHLIGHTS July A proposal was made that all expenditures for making improvements on the Entering and exiting the CCB building without hassle is important. The CCB building must first receive board approval. Repair project would be funded by the line of credit. American power has been used to wreak much havoc in the world. Now we are told that our global role is shrinking. Is that true—and if so, is it good? • Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. He writes a BAGLY is leaving and moving to a downtown location. Theater Offensive The status of Church employees and the current personnel policy should will continue to remain in the building. put more focus on Church workers stating their job description. The Church world affairs column for the Boston Globe and teaches international relations at Brown University. should look into the personnel policies of other organizations, notably that August of the Unitarian Universalist Association. music by CommUnity Voices Any money that does not come from the Finance Committee must be accounted for. One of the key priorities of the Committee is to monetarily Dick Keshishian, Clerk sustain the Sunday programs. David Rovics Board of Directors Address: 565 Boylston Street, 2nd Fl., Boston, MA 02116 Tillyruth Teixeira, President • Ron Escobar Shipiro, Vice President Tel: 617-266-6710 • Betsy Rueda Gynn, Treasurer • Dick Keshishian, Clerk In Concert at CCB Email: [email protected] Steve Kellerman • Ellen Mass • Virginia Pratt • Jim Casteris • Alan Clemence Web: www.communitychurchofboston.org Saturday, November 3 at 7:30 pm Staff Facebook: https://business.facebook.com/boston.church.3/ Dean Stevens, Interim Administrator • Christle Rawlins-Jackson, Office and Publications Manager Twitter: @CCBJustice Buy tickets in advance at brownpapertickets.com • Xinli Xu, Bookkeeper • Luis Guzman, Custodian/Cook or for more information: www.communitychurchofboston.org The views and opinions expressed in these articles don’t necessarily mirror the views of The Community Church of Boston, or its members or board. October 7 at 2:00 PM November 11 at 11:00 AM “Recent Developments in Civil Rights, “After the Mid-Term Elections: Racial Justice & Immigrants’ Rights” Where Do We Go From Here?” with Mark Solomon with Iván Espinoza-Madrigal • Mark Solomon, Professor Emeritus of History at Simmons College holds degrees in History from Wayne State University, Uni- This talk will focus on the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice recent work. We filed the first lawsuits in the country versity of Michigan and from Harvard University. He has written scores of articles on African American history, race and racism, against the Trump Administration to protect sanctuary cities; to save Temporary Protected Status (TPS) on behalf of Haitians and Central U.S. foreign policy, globalization, and war and peace issues which have appeared in both scholarly and popular journals. Prof. American immigrants; and to block immigration arrests in courthouses. • Iván Espinoza-Madrigal is the Executive Director of Lawyers’ Com- Solomon has lectured in Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean. He has written and edited many books. He has served as Nation- mittee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice. Under his leadership, the organization has become a hub for litigation, advocacy, and resistance in response to the current climate. Iván has filed and won dozens of life-changing and law-changing cases on a wide range of civil rights issues, al Co-Chair of the United States Peace Council and is a past member of the Presidential Committee of the World Peace Coun- including racial justice, immigrants’ rights, and LGBT/HIV equality. cil. He is also a former National Co-Chair of The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). Prof. Solomon as has spoken at Community Church many times over the course of the last fifty years. music by CommUnity Voices music by CommUnity Voices October 14 at 3:00 PM “Kafka in Palestine” “The Boston Abolitionists” November 18 at 2:00 PM a play by Inez Hedges, directed by Morgan Flynn a play performed by the Poets’ Theatre “Kafka in Palestine” is an imaginative retelling of the friendship between Franz Kafka and his sister Ottla in the early 20th century. They An ensemble of skilled actors from the Poets’ Theatre give voice to the wide range of anti-slavery attitudes in Massachusetts during the dream of escaping their authoritarian father by moving to the idealized Palestine they have read about in the writings of the Zionist visionary decades leading up to the Civil War. Black and white, female and male, well-known and obscure, these important writers and orators, Theodore Herzl. But reality intervenes (Franz’s fatal illness, Ottla’s deportation to the concentration camp) until the siblings are magically including Lydia Maria Child, Paul Cuffee, Frederick Douglass, and Angelina Grimké Weld, among others, transformed fringe ideas—re- reunited in the troubled landscape of the modern era. • Inez Hedges likes to bring important issues to the stage in order to facilitate reflection jected by many in Boston as dangerous and “fanatical”—into a mainstream movement for emancipation. • David Gullette (Playwright) is and discussion. Previous plays have dealt with the deportation and murder of Jews during the German occupation of France, and French resis- Professor Emeritus of English at Simmons College and Literary Director of the Poets’ Theatre. tance fighters. Inez is a Northeastern Univ. Professor emerita, and a resident scholar at the Brandeis Univ. Women’s Studies Research Center. Frederick Douglass November 25 at 11:00 AM “The Mourning Road to October 21 at 3:00 PM “The Continued Colonization Thanksgiving” of Puerto Rico” with Larry Spotted Crow Mann with Jasmine Gomez • Larry Spotted Crow Mann is an award winning writer, poet, cultural educator, Traditional Story Teller, tribal drummer /dancer and Jasmine will discuss the history of political inequality and corporate dominance in Puerto Rico.