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• Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Coffee Hour

  • Start
    26 Mar 2025
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  • End
    26 Nov 2025
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  • Schedule
    8 sessions
  • Location
    Zoom upon registration

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  The Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Caucus of DRUUMM hosts a virtual Coffee Hour for community and discussion monthly (except June and December). Beginning in March 2025, the Coffee Hour will be held on the 4th Wednesday from 5 to 6:30 PM Pacific/8 to 9:30 PM Eastern.

  We have a different Theme or Topic each month. Perhaps you would like to propose and/or present one?

  In February we had a small group conversation really getting to how we share and show our love of others and ourselves. The focus on love really framed our warm heartfelt conversation.

  Our March Coffee Hour theme is Spring Awakening. We will touch on many of the topics we think of in March including honoring women's history, transgender action for healthcare equality, deaf history and gender equality. We'll also consider gardening - tending to both our exterior gardens and our interior selves. To prepare for an activity together, please bring seed/s and a pot to plant the seed/s in.

  Hosted by the AANHPI Steering Committee.

  If you have any question, please send an email to Evelie Delfino Såles at evelie511@gmail.com.

  2025 Schedule
  January 15
  February 19
  March 26
  April 23
  May 28
  July 23
  August 27
  September 24
  October 22
  November 26

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• Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Caucus Monthly Gathering

  • Start
    08 Apr 2025
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  • End
    09 Dec 2025
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  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    Online

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  The Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) caucus of DRUUMM gathers to build community and for discussion monthly on the 2nd Tuesday from 5 to 6 PM Pacific/8 to 9 PM Eastern.

  Please honor that this gathering is for only those who identify as Southwest Asian and North African.

  2025 Schedule

  January 14
  February 11
  March 11
  April 8
  May 13
  June 10
  July 8
  August 12
  September 9
  October 14
  November 11
  December 9

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• DRUUMM Book Club | Fiction Group

  • When
    10 Aug 2025
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    5:00 PM (PDT)
  • Location
    Online

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  Hello bookworms!

  The next DRUUMM fiction bookclub meeting will occur August 10th at 5 pm Pacific / 6 pm Mountain / 7 pm Central / 8 pm Eastern. Be prepared to discuss chapters 18 to the end of the book of the exciting post-apocalyptic book Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

  All DRUUMM Book Club groups are for members of DRUUMM only. If you would like to invite a friend to join the book discussion, make sure they are registered with DRUUMM.
  

  Here's some questions to ponder for the next meeting. Feel free to come up with questions to discuss.

  Chapter 18-19

  1. Why do you think Lauren continues to develop and share Earthseed despite the danger and chaos around her?

  Chapter 20-21

  2. In these chapters, violence escalates. How do the group members’ responses to violence reflect their personalities or past traumas?

  3. What does Lauren’s decision to help strangers say about her beliefs and leadership? Would you have made the same choice?

  Chapter 24

  4. Earthseed emphasizes adaptability and shaping destiny. How does the group’s arrival at Bankole’s land symbolize this theme?

  Chapter 25

  5. Reflect on the final Earthseed verses: how do they tie together the book’s themes of change, community, and future-building?

  6. Do you think Lauren’s vision of Earthseed is realistic within the world Butler has created? Why or why not?

  General questions:

  11. What does this ending leave you feeling about humanity’s potential for survival and growth?

  12. How do the experiences from chapter 18 onwards shape your understanding of what it takes to build community in the midst of collapse?

  13. Would you join Earthseed if you were living in Lauren’s world? Why or why not?

  14. What parallels do you see between the society Lauren navigates and our world today?

  Wishing you all the best,

  Sean Alphonse
  DRUUMM Treasurer

  
  

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• Installation Ceremony of the DRUUMM Steering Committee

  • When
    28 Aug 2025
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    8:00 PM - 9:00 PM (EDT)
  • Location
    Online

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  We are grateful to our members who answer the call to leadership and service. DRUUMM warmly invites members and special guests to the Installation Ceremony of the 2025-2026 DRUUMM Steering Committee, to be held 28 Aug 2024, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM EDT virtually via Zoom. The installation ceremony is open to all.

  Join us as we formally celebrate the covenantal relationship between our DRUUMM community and DRUUMM Steering Committee, honoring our new commitments as we weave a new shared ministry. This is a time where our theology is made real in relationship, where we recognize and hold sacred the intersection of individual, community, and the Spirit, a foundation of Unitarian Universalism.

  Welcome to all new and continuing DRUUMM Steering Committee members!

  President: Tomi Fatunde
  1st Vice President: Yvonne DuVal
  2nd Vice President: Rev. Carol Thomas Cissel
  Secretary: Michelle Venegas-Matula
  Treasurer: Sean Alphonse
  Outreach Coordinator: Karishma Gottfried
  Outreach Coordinator: Devin Dadah
  Communications Coordinator: Karin Lin
  General Assembly Coordinator: Rev. Angeline Jackson
  UUA Liaison: Rev. Michael Crumpler

  
  

  
  

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• DRUUMM Book Club | NonFiction Group

  • When
    31 Aug 2025
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    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (PDT)
  • Location
    Online

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  Hello bookworms!

  We are happy to announce that we have completed our first book for the DRUUMM NonFiction Book Club Group! Sound the alarm!

  We have decided on our second book to read: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao. This book is about more than one company, it is a look at the entire AI atmosphere we find ourselves unavoidably entrenched in today. Hao unveils the jaw dropping formation of a new AI religion amongst the top tech-CEOs and how AI has opened up a new frontier in global exploitation.

  At our first meeting discussing this book, we will discuss Part I. This is pages 1 to 138 in the physical hardcover copy.

  We are excited to read such a new and groundbreaking book on the hot button issue of this decade. Please join us for this incredibly thrilling journey into analyzing the forces shaping our modern world. Hope to see you there!

  All DRUUMM Book Club groups are for members of DRUUMM only. If you would like to invite a friend to join the book discussion, make sure they are registered with DRUUMM. Send a message to devin@druumm.org if you ever need to contact the leader of this book group.

  

  "Armed with Microsoft’s billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history—toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry—Altman’s sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn’t just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too—as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they’re the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we’ve seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era."

  See you on the page,

  DRUUMM Book Club

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