Earnest Ethical Letters to the Next President of America
Ocean Poem
By Marifer,
inspired by memories of her snorkeling experience in Cancun
Created for and presented at First Sundays Series, August 6th, 2020
Thousands of drops of water in an ocean.
Thousands of diverse species
in the vivid colors swim in it.
Amongst the rough coral, eels
poke their slimy, slim heads
from between the sands and stones.
Quiet, bright orange clownfish
swim through anemone.
Fish, vibrant, colorful fish
swim through the blue waters.
Gliding as it seems,
with the grace of birds.
Polyps poke out along with barnacles
from the sandy hulls of ships.
Squids and octopi, with suckers,
three hearts, and aggression
can be spotted nearby.
Curious fish with spikes,
Mares of the Sea, and star shaped curiosities are just a few
of the wonderful oddities
you may find.
Flower like beings —
not plants, but animals,
you see — peek out
every now and then
for some krill
Crabs, lobsters and assorted crustaceans,
clams with the shiny pearls,turtles with green shells…
Oh that is the beauty
of a once pristine ocean.
And now?
Oh woe.
Earth Citizen John Lewis
Earth Citizen John Lewis
By: Ohm Williams
An earth citizen is someone who makes the earth better for other people and themselves.
John Lewis was a great man and earth citizen. He was one of the youngest activists to join the Civil Rights movement. John Lewis once said that Emmet Till was his George Floyd. It made me feel sad because we sort of went through the same thing of having someone murdered because of the color of their skin. Because of Emmet Till, John Lewis began to march. He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. He stood up for Black Lives before Black Lives Matter was a movement. He was one of the brave people injured during the Bloody Sunday March. He did not stop fighting for freedom. He fought and fought and fought until his dying day. His legacy will live on.
Note: Ohm shared this speech at the August 2020 FIRST SUNDAYS SERIES!
YEE AUGUST 2020
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Malala Song
ETHICAL SONG: Malala Yousafzai, We Agree!
To the tune of “The Alphabet Song” -- 3 rounds:
Verse 1: sung like "A-P"
Verse 2: sung like "Q-Z"
Verse 3[Refrain]: “Now I know my abcs...”
CAPital LETters are for EMphasis in SINGing.
MaLAla YouSAFzai
TELLS the WORLD
EVery CHILD deserves
to LEARN
MaLAla hopes the WORLD
can UNderSTAND
CHILDren need the RIGHT
To GO to SCHool
"One CHILD, one TEAcher
One BOOK, one PEN—
can CHANGE the WORld"
EVery DAY
MaLAla InSISTS
“EduCAtion PLEASE!
For EVery CHILD
aROUND the WORLD.”
GIRLS and BOYS
Of EVery land
Have BEAUtiful MINDS
That deSERVE a HAND.
YES to each CHILD
YES to each TEAcher
YES to each BOOK
YES to each PEN
CHILDren’s minds and BOdies
Are GETting HURT
From PREjudice and POVerty
aROUND the WORLD.
YES to my LEARNning
and YES to YOURS
YES to HIS
And YES to HERS.
MaLAla, we the CHILdren
of ETHical nyC
SING for YOU
to SAY we aGREE!
Young Ethical Explorers
of
ETHICAL NYC:
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Our America... YEE speech!
Our America
by YEE participant Marifer
In our America, I want us to be proud of who we are. If our skin is brown, tan, black or white, we should feel proud of it.
….Of our sexual orientation… If we like men, women, or whoever!
….If we come from an immigrant family or have lived here since we were born…
...Of our gender! If we are a man, woman, or non-binary, we should feel proud of it.
In our America, I want us to get to choose
who we want to be,
what religion each of us wants to follow,
what job we want to get,
what we want to study,
who we want to marry, if at all.
I want us to all have the opportunities
to get a job,
go to college,
and raise a family if we wish.
I want there to be
peace and justice, and freedom and equality
for everybody.
In our America.
In our world.
On our beautiful earth!
JULY 5th 1:30 ~~~~ FIRST SUNDAYS
RSVP for JULY 5th, 1:30pm!
RSVP to be a child/youth/family presenter
and/or to be an attending audience.
Ethical community has been standing up for fairness in solidarity with world wide demonstrations in a time of global pandemic:
through Black Lives Matter and Rainbow Pride.
NOW
For "YEE's First Sundays" (at 1:30pm on July 5)
children, youth and families are invited to:
create and/or witness ETHICAL EXPRESSIONS
**** Note: TO BE INCLUDED in the formal ROSTER OF PRESENTERS, it would be helpful to RSVP by FRIDAY. *****
Our Compassionate Pen Project invites children, youth, families
to write/draw ETHICAL EXPRESSIONS as:
a speech, pledge, poem, story, picture or song
expressing your ideas and hopes for AMERICA in this time of protest and pandemic.
If you create a visual item, you may send a picture in advance for inclusion in our slide show.
Here are some prompts to get your creative juices flowing:
* This event is on the weekend often celebrated as America's Birthday, so you may find it helpful to make a "birthday wish for America" -- telling us what you wish for America's future and how you think your wish can be realized.
* You may even tell people about a DEED your family participates in to help realize these ethical hopes.
* You may use a prompt like this:
BLACK LIVES MATTER to me because....
RAINBOW PRIDE is beautiful because...
* or You may use the title of the event:
AMERICA THE ETHICAL.....with LIBERTY and JUSTICE for ALL.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~you may share the invitation below with others...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Young Ethical Explorers (YEE)
FIRST SUNDAYS AT 1:30 pm
"America the Ethical...
with Liberty and Justice for ALL”
An inspirational educational forum of childrens and families' ETHICAL presentations. All ages are welcome to attend.
Register in advance for this meeting on zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
so you will be "recognized" in the zoom waiting room.
YEE, our Ethics for Children humanist Sunday School program, serves to empower youngsters in their ethical development, create life-long friendships, and stand up with care and courage for a better world. Through kindness and deed, they “bring out the best in one another, and thereby in themselves” — NYSEC founder, Felix Adler. Topics are explored through discussion, storytelling, dramatization, music, art, games, and field trips. Newcomers and visitors are always welcome!
To learn more about YEE, visit
Home-Marches for Black Lives Matter!
GRAND HOME-MARCHING FOR JUSTICE and FAIRNESS
Children, families, home-based activists!
Gather all your action figures, all your dolls of every color, all your stuffed animals…
Join the Young Ethical Explorers in creating Home-Marches for the black lives matter movement! With index cards or small pieces of paper, make doll sized signs with your hopes for a just and humane future!
Write “black lives matter” and “peace and justice” "may black lives thrive" and let the dolls carry the message! Bring them all together with many signs and take a picture of your in-house child-sized protests!
Share your pictures on social media! This is a way to get children involved in the essential learning about fairness and justice, while still protecting their identities. Let them be part of the movement!
Share pictures of your HOME-MARCHES with us at the email above and we will post them to show our caring collective power!
Corona AIDS Awareness WALK
Dear Ethical Community,Visit: https://ny.aidswalk.net/EthicalCulture/
to sponsor Young Ethical Explorers for the AIDS WALK NYC 2020!
For many years, the Young Ethical Explorers, with sponsorship by Ethical Culture community members, have walked the AIDS walk in Central Park with thousands of diverse walkers.
This year, we are doing it differently... and again, we are welcoming your sponsorship!
Young Ethical Explorers are making CORONA AWARENESS CROWNS and RED RIBBONS FOR WELLNESS AWARENESS.... and each student is organizing their own families to "take an awareness walk with homemade crowns and ribbons.
C R O W N !
Empower yourself in the face of CORONA-VIRUS with
CORONA-SAFETY PRACTICES.
Children can make CREATIVE TOOLS
TO SUPPORT THEMSELVES IN THESE PRACTICES.
CORONA-AWARENESS is CORONA-POWER!
Through creative projects children build their placebo-power.
Children's imaginations have the ability to support
difficult things through playful power.
Playful-Placebo-Projects like this build awareness...
Awareness cultivates their pro-active compliance with the
wellness practices necessary in challenging times like this:
from social-distancing to hand-washing, to mask-wearing.
SAFTEY PRACTICES are the key for HEALTH in these Corona-times!
Make a CORONA AWARENESS-CROWN
...with a COVID-19 CARE-RIBBON
These corona-crowns will HUG YOUR SMART BRAIN while you PARADE
with "social-distancing practices" around your home or your neighborhood!
We are creating our own personal crowns!
These "CORONAS" (crowns) will hug your smart brain!
The Corona VIRUSis named after a
crown
because of its
spikey shape.
To make the crown:1. Fold the paper in half lengthwise.
2. If you want to write the word CORONA on it --
or CORONA AWARENESS -- you can.
3. Decorate it in special ways!
ADD A CORONA AWARENESS RIBBON TO YOUR CROWN.
An official color has not been declared,
but A WHITE RIBBON has been used by some communities.
You can make it yourself with a WHITE strip of paper. It's simple!
You can create caring messages, designs or pictures on it, if you want.
Various Awareness Ribbons are used for showing CARE for people who are affected by illnesses, and for those doctors and nurses taking care of them. This "tradition". started in the early 1980's with the RED RIBBON for AIDS AWARENESS, and each year, millions of people use it to raise money in the June AIDS WALK NYC.Covid19 is the illness created by CORONA VIRUS and many people are indeed suffering with this. To hold a symbol of our care for them, and for the safety of those caring for them, you can wear a corona-awareness ribbon!
Meet the Pangolin
Pangolins have been removed from their natural habitats by PEOPLE and USED in many ways. But now, they are nearly extinct, and lead very fragile lives.
People have sold pangolins to other people for food and medicine, and put them in situations that endanger them. People have put pangolins into crowded markets with animals it was never meant to be near. There, it seems, is where it met bats.
The bats have lived for so very long with corona and they have pretty much kept it to themselves, and been immune to them. But the pangolin got corona from the bats... and somehow that made it easier for people to get it from pangolins. Now, people can get corona from each other. That is why we are all masking and social distancing.
But it all comes from something we might all be able to relate to a little bit....
the very common human feeling that we should be able to have whatever we want.
We must change.
We must honor nature's boundaries.
There are great consequences to the way people grab from nature whatever we want.
Meet one pangolin and its helper
Cutie-pies!
A journey through their forests to understand their lives.
All about Pangolins
How vulnerable are Pangolins in corona times?
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