• From the Leader - Hugh Taft-Morales Certified
• Community Calls - Feb. 7 - Jone Lewis, Adler, and Women
• Ethical Action - Ethical Action Reports
• Guest Platform - Bart Worden - Sustainable Living and Ethical Culture
• Susan's Musings - Howard Zinn

From the Leader - Susan Rose
It is with great excitement that I let you know that Hugh Taft-Morales is now a certified Ethical Culture Leader. Please read my blog and add your congratulations to Hugh. And consider attending the AEU Assembly this year to celebrate Hugh's certification (the term we use in Ethical Culture rather than ordination) and work with him on social action activities on LGBTQ issues.

See also Hugh's most recent blog, "What To Do With Haiti?".

Community Calls
Our community calls are a way for us to connect with each other across the country even thought we don't live near each other. It is also a way to discuss important ethical topics.

On February 7, 2010, Jone Johnson Lewis, Leader of the Northern Virginia Ethical Society and expert on women's history, will be joining our call and discussing Felix Adler and Women. I asked Jone to join us because of the interest we've had in some of our calls about this topic.

On Feb. 21, 2010, Howard Radest, an Ethical Culture Leader who has served the Movement in many capacities, will join us to discuss bioethics. We'll be providing readings as we come closer to the call.

The calls are at noon Pacific, 1pm Mountain, 2 pm Central and 3 pm Eastern. The number for the call is 866-740-1260 and the access code is 5766842#.

Ethical Action
You can find this month's issue of Ethical Action Reports - a joint publication of the American Ethical Union and the American Humanist Association on our website or you can get to it directly (PDF).

Guest Platform - Bart Worden
Sustainable Living and Ethical Culture (video)
I usually listen to the recordings of all the talks I list. For this talk, I was actually at the NY Society for Ethical Culture and got to watch Bart give this talk on the important topic of sustainable living. I do think ESWoW has the lowest carbon footprint of all ethical societies, but we all can always do more.

Susan's Musings
Howard Zinn died this week. He was a historian and an activist. Whenever I went to a peace demonstration in Boston it seemed like Howard Zinn was there. He was often a featured speaker, but sometimes just a face in the crowd. Howard Zinn has been an inspiration, to me and to many others. He made me want to learn more about the truth of what is going on, and what went on. His People's History of the United States ought to be required reading in my opinion for all history students. He also inspired me by his actions and his willingness to always state his opinions, to speak the truth. The memorial piece I've seen that I think most fully gave a picture of Howard Zinn fittingly was on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker (who was a student of Zinn's), and Naomi Klein.

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Yours in Ethical Community,
Susan Rose
Hugh Taft-Morales