Spokane Camera Club
2025-11-05 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Friendship Hall

Retirement Group (closed meeting)
2025-11-06 14:30 - 16:30 | ZOOM

LGBTQ+ Senior Group
2025-11-07 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-11-14 16:00 - 17:30 | RE Zoom Account
ZOOM

UU Men's Group at Rockwood Retirement
2025-11-08 08:30 - 10:30 | Offsite
Please join us for breakfast and conversation in the Livingston Dining Area of the Summit building at the Rockwood South Hill Retirement Community

Questions? Contact Tom Mosher at 509-220-1879.
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Spectrum Singers Rehearsal
2025-11-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Sanctuary

LGBTQ+ Seniors of the Inland Northwest Potluck
2025-11-08 11:30 - 14:00 | Friendship Hall
Join us for food, fellowship and conversation.

Setup - Understanding and Challenging Anti-Democracy Movements
2025-11-08 14:30 - 15:00 | Friendship Hall

Understanding and Challenging Anti-Democracy Movements
2025-11-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Sanctuary
The Social Justice Team, PJALS and the Be the Change 509 to host Joan Braun’s talk: Understanding and Challenging Anti-Democracy Movements.
Racism and other forms of oppression and hate are nothing new in the United States. But social movements advocating hate, genocide, and far-right authoritarian politics, have gained increased power and influence through the current Trump administration.
The Trump administration is influenced by multiple social movements that believe the president should be above the law. They believe he should be able to enforce his will immediately, and that he should dehumanize and call for violence against various “enemies.”
Dr. Braune is a scholar of far-right movements, including racist hate groups, fascist movements, and Christian nationalist movements. In this presentation, she discusses the influence of these movements on U.S. politics today and how we can resist.
Dr. Braune takes a “social movement approach.” She sees fascism as a social movement seeking power, always already connected to sources of power. She helps communities think through how to understand the danger and build effective social movements to counter it. She does not claim to have all the answers, but she helps communities understand how these movements operate so that they can think through effective boundaries with far-right groups and consider means of challenging them.
The social movement approach argues that fascism cannot be defeated merely by elections, policing, or dialogue. Rather, fascism can only be defeated through social movements that resist it. The time is urgent to act, and we can all play a role.
There will be time for questions as well as an interactive opportunity to participate in a small group exercise on thinking through social spaces and subcultures we belong to and ways to resist fascism in those spaces.
Dr. Joan Braune (She/Her) is author of numerous works including Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope (Routledge 2024) and is co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right (Manchester University Press 2024) and the forthcoming book, On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives, which will be coming out in December from Routledge. She has been studying fascism and the far-right for the past eight years and frequently presents to activist groups, faith communities, educators, labor unions, and others.

Clean Up - Understanding and Challenging Anti-Democracy Movements
2025-11-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Friendship Hall

Sunday Worship
2025-11-09 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-11-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-16 09:15 - 10:15, 2025-11-16 11:00 - 12:00 | Sanctuary
Live Stream Available

Childcare for Sunday Services
2025-11-09 11:00 - 12:15, 2025-11-16 11:00 - 12:15 | Channing Room (Nursery)

Poetry Sharing Circle
2025-11-09 12:30 - 13:30 | Chapel
Have you ever run across (or written!) a poem that just begs to be shared? Would you like to get together, in person, to do just that? Bring a poem and any thoughts about it you wish to share. Or just come and listen. No pressure…no studying…no expectations…no outcome criteria. Just a poetry sharing gathering.

Spokane Handweaver's Guild
2025-11-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Thoreau Room

Church Office Closed
2025-11-10 - 2025-11-11

Meditation Group
2025-11-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-11-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Private Zoom
Buddhist Meditation – Sravasti Abbey

Ops Team Meeting
2025-11-11 11:00 - 13:00 | RE Zoom Account

The Kerdcera Dojo
2025-11-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Chapel
The Kerdcera Dojo means, “The practice of heart and mind,” now meets in person at UUCS in our chapel. Rev. Dr. Todd Eklof guides participants in the practice of logic and Emotional Intelligence techniques.

Spokane Indivisible
2025-11-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Thoreau Room

UU Women 2nd Wednesday Lunch - Jewel of the North
2025-11-12 11:30 - 12:30 | Offsite
Please RSVP to Jan Wingenroth at Jan_dennis@msn.com so we can reserve a big enough table. If you haven’t had lunch with the UU women before or even if you have consider giving us and/or this new restaurant a try

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Weekly SUUN Submission Deadline
2025-11-12 15:00

Josyln Cain Memorial Service
2025-11-12 18:30 - 21:00 | Sanctuary

Meaningful Movies: Summer of Soul
2025-11-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Chapel
It is a free event and open to the public. Summer of Soul is about the Harlem Cultural Festival in the summer of 1969 filmed at the time and film was produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. Join us of the film and conversation after.

NAUA Monthly Service - ZOOM Only
2025-11-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Private Zoom

Social Justice Coordinating Council
2025-11-17 18:30 - 20:00 | RE Zoom Account
