Seeds for a world change #1

As a new service initiative, we are posting a short quotation from a traditional sacred texts twice a week, on Sundays and Wednesdays, at our community altar at the Occupy Portland office.

Seeds for a world change #1 (August 26-29, 2012)

子曰：“诗三百，一言以蔽之，曰思无邪”。

Zǐ yuē:“Shī sānbǎi, yī yán yǐ bì zhī, yuē sī wú xié.”

Confucius said, “If out of the three hundred Songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say, ‘Let there be no evil in your thoughts.’”

-Analects 2.2

Reminder: Occupy Wall Street Visions

It always helps to remind ourselves of our origins.

Occupy Wall Street Vision Statement from October 2011, in case anyone has forgotten:

We Envision:

[1] a truly free, democratic, and just society;
[2] where we, the people, come together and solve our problems by consensus;
[3] where people are encouraged to take personal and collective responsibility and participate in decision making;
[4] where we learn to live in harmony and embrace principles of toleration and respect for diversity and the differing views of others;
[5] where we secure the civil and human rights of all from violation by tyrannical forces and unjust governments;
[6] where political and economic institutions work to benefit all, not just the privileged few;
[7] where we provide full and free education to everyone, not merely to get jobs but to grow and flourish as human beings;
[8] where we value human needs over monetary gain, to ensure decent standards of living without which effective democracy is impossible;
[9] where we work together to protect the global environment to ensure that future generations will have safe and clean air, water and food supplies, and will be able to enjoy the beauty and bounty of nature that past generations have enjoyed.

Our altar at the Occupy Portland office

This afternoon Sarah cleaned up and tidied up the sacred space altar, which has been a fixture of the Occupy Portland office, the Che Guevara Room, since its start in November 2011.

A proposed rebranding!

Meeting notes from August 23, 2012

Interfaith Guild of Chaplains Meeting Notes 20120823

Thursday, Aug. 23: Join us for a summer picnic and conversation.

Our communal tent this past week at the Timothy Lake PGE Hoodview Camp Ground, Mt. Hood National Forest, for the Sisters In Strength (SIS) camping trip.  Did you know that our tent is available for check out (and send us a picture or two or three when you do)?

An opportunity to enjoy a summer in the nature, as well as to talk about the next steps for this group and for the Occupy movement in general.  Visitors and newcomers welcome.

https://www.facebook.com/events/377393669000375/

Thursday, August 23, 4:30 p.m.
Frazer Park, NE 52nd Avenue & Hassalo Street (just north of the Providence Medical Center, between Glisan and Halsey).  Look for the sole picnic table on the east side of the park near the Albina Head Start school house.

PDXGA.org is now back in service!

http://www.portlandgeneralassembly.org/groups/interfaith-guild-of-chaplains

Important: use the full www.portlandgeneralassembly.org instead of pdxga.org.