Summer 2014 Dialogue

Get inspired by highlights from our successful 2014 AEU Assembly and see what AEU Committees have been working on since May. Check out what happened during FES Conference and Lay Leadership Summer School and mark your calendar for many more big events.

Articles Include:

Join AEU for People’s Climate March in NYC September 21
Last Call to Help Make the AEU Songbook Happen
Highlights from 99th AEU Assembly May 1-4, 2014
FES Connects with Community in Philly
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
Ethical Education: Seizing the Cultural Movement
Continued Evolution of the Ethical Action Report
From the UN: Mental Health
Calling Ethical Culture My Religion
Celebrate International Day of Peace September 21

Send submissions for Fall 2014 to communications@aeu.org by Thursday, September 25.

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"As a white, taxpaying, home owner, I believe it’s his duty to protect me and my interests rather than the other way around. I also believe that my friend, who is a Black, taxpaying, homeowner ought to be perceived as a boss of the police chief in her town – but she didn’t see it that way and was surprised that I saw myself in the position of power vis a vis the chief." ... See MoreSee Less

American Ethical Union » Week of 7/6/2020

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Othering is, I believe, a necessary precursor to oppression. “Othering” involves what the sociologist Yiannis Gabriel has described as “casting a group, an individual or an object into the role of the ‘other’ and establishing one’s own identity through opposition to and, frequently, vili...

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"I felt that my dignity was taken away," Gilliam says of his arrest and the subsequent hours he spent sitting in the police station. "I felt like less of a human. I felt inferior to the white officers who were there." ... See MoreSee Less

The duty and burden of the black police officer

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David J. Thomas grew up in Detroit in the 1960s, two blocks from the headquarters of the 10th Precinct. Nighttime echoed with .50-caliber machine guns. Mornings dawned over neighborhood rubble. Thomas remembers being 11 years old, approaching a squad car outside the corner store and asking a police....

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America doesn't just have a police problem: It has a morality problem

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I fear that until the persistence of racism and hatred in the American fabric is radically mitigated, police killings will inevitably continue.

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What We Could Be (Flag Waving Day) - Tony Stiker

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WARNING: The following video contains scenes of a disturbing nature, including police brutality, racist and profane language, and extreme violence against pe...

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