Chalice Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Conejo Valley Community Forum program is an ongoing series of speakers, films and socially relevant entertainment events. Our aim is to organize and present public programs that inform, inspire and delight our community.

Our mission is to promote awareness of Chalice as a beacon of liberal religion, tolerance, equity, compassion, and respect for nature and human rights in the Conejo Valley and the wider world.

For any questions about our events,contact: forum@chaliceuu.org


The Attack on Democracy, and How We Can Help Protect It

2024-04-12, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Friday, April 12)

with

David Pepper

“You are more powerful than you think!”*

David Pepper, author of Laboratories of Autocracy and Saving Democracy, details the breadth and depth of the assaults on our democracy and passionately lays out a robust agenda on how everyone from elected officials to everyday citizens can fight back.

“American democracy can be resuscitated – its roots planted far more deeply into our soil.  American governance can once again reflect the voted will of the broad, diverse electorate that comprises the American majority.”   *Saving Democracy – David Pepper

David Pepper is a lawyer, writer, democracy activist, former elected official, and adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

 

Please register for the forum in advance here:

https://bit.ly/AttackonDemocracyandHowWeCanHelpProtectIt

 


PAST EVENTS

 


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2024-02-02: Ranked Choice Voting
2024-01-13: Electrify Your Home or Business
2023-12-08: Decisions in the Dark
2023-11-10: The Year to Save the Planet
2023-09-08: The Isabel Allende Foundation and Nepal Youth Foundation's Caste Equality Project: A Story of Heart-based Philanthropy
2023-08-25: New Beginnings - From the Conejo Valley to Cameroon
2023-08-04: Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life
2023-06-30: Building Meaningful Allyship with Transgender and Gender-Expansive Communities
2023-05-27: Curious About EVs? An Introduction to Owning and Driving an Electric Vehicle
2023-04-14: Defending Public Education and a Diverse Democracy
2023-03-11: Rising Antisemitism and How We Address It
2023-02-17: Restorative Justice - Transforming Harm to Healing
2023-01-20: Gerald C. Rivers - The Voice of Dr. King
2022-12-09: Deeper Than the Skin
2022-11-19: Love Our Water
2022-10-21: Democracy: Beginning of the end, or end of the beginning?
2022-09-16: "River's End: California's Latest Water War" - Panel Discussion
2022-08-12: Post Roe - What Happens Now?
2022-07-15: Gun Sense in America 2022
2022-06-10: Senior Services and Fraud Protection
2022-05-19: Public Safety and Local Police Reform
2022-04-16: Project: Music Heals Us
2022-04-02: VC-SAFE
2022-03-18: Voting Rights 2022
2022-02-12: Santa Susana Field Lab Cleanup
2022-01-21: Many Mansions' Affordable Housing in Ventura County
2021-12-04: Bringing Hope - Ventura County Family Justice Center
2021-12-04: COMMUNITY FORUM ONLINE Bringing Hope - Ventura County Family Justice Center
2021-11-12: Fall in Love, Have Children, Stay Put, Save the Planet, Be Happy - Discussion with Frank Schaeffer
2021-09-10: Community Forum: Critical Race Theory - What it is and what it isn't
2021-08-20: Community Cares: Building Resilience and Wellness
2021-07-16: The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions
2021-06-05: Immigration Laws & Enforcement: How We Went from Open Borders to ICE (Interpretación disponible en Español)
2021-05-07: Cleaning the Air in Ventura County
2021-04-23: Saving the Earth by Saving the Earth
2021-03-05: DIGDEEP: Defending the Basic Human Right to Water
2021-02-05: Protecting Youth from Recruitment into Online Hate
2021-01-16: New Voices for Justice
2020-12-04: "John Lewis: Good Trouble" - His Life and Legacy
2020-11-07: Building Resilience Against Misinformation
2020-10-09: Prop 15: Voting for Schools and Communities
2020-09-25: "Public Trust: The Fight for America's Public Lands" - Panel Discussion
2020-09-11: Voting Rights and Election Integrity #2020 - Community Forum
2020-08-29: Let's Get Cooking for Change!
2020-07-23: Community Meditation
2020-07-10: 13th Panel Discussion - How We Got Here
2020-05-29: "The Story of Plastic" - Panelists and Discussion
2020-05-08: Coping During the Coronavirus
2020-04-17: All you wanted to know about your kids' education and how it is paid for
2020-03-28: "Suppressed: the Fight to Vote" - Speakers and Discussion via Zoom
2020-02-22: Come to Your Census
2020-02-01: Climate Disruption and U.S. Militarism
2020-01-10: Broken...A Holocaust Story in Fused Glass
2019-11-08: Man on Fire
2019-10-24: Women's Health and Reproductive Rights in an Uncertain America
2019-10-11: "Voices of a People's History of the United States"
2019-09-21: Love Our Planet
2019-07-26: "Saint Judy"
2019-06-29: Community Forum-Clean Energy Solutions
2019-06-14: Reproductive Rights Advocacy Night
2019-04-13: STABILIZING CLIMATE CHAOS
2019-03-29: The Real Border Crisis
2019-02-23: Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
2019-01-12: Eating to Save the Planet, or What's a Flexitarian?
2018-12-01: FUNDRAISER: RiZe Up - Roy Zimmerman in Concert
2018-11-10: Hunger in the Conejo Valley
2018-10-27: Gun Sense in America
2018-09-14: Healthcare: Is there a better way? How do we get there?
2018-09-01: Love Our Oceans
2018-06-15: An Outrage: a documentary film about lynching in the American South
2018-06-03: Being an Ally for Collective Liberation – an interactive workshop with Chris Crass
2018-05-05: Creating Community
2018-04-20: Storytelling Goes to Prison - The Art of Storytelling Changing Lives
2018-03-02: Community Forum: The Story of Homelessness in Ventura County
2018-02-09: State of the State with Sandra Fluke
2018-01-13: Immigration Rights: Education for Allies
2017-12-08: Undoing our Unjust Cash Bail System
2017-10-21: Love Resists - Progressive Empowerment & Action Workshop
2017-08-27: Reproductive Justice Event--Write For Your Rights
2017-08-26: Community Forum: Globally Trans--Strengthening Ourselves in Uncertain Times
2017-06-30: NOW IS THE TIME: Healthcare for Everybody
2017-06-16: Community Forum: Jessie's Place
2017-05-12: A Matter of Death and Life -- A Humanist's Perspective of Mortality
2017-04-28: Next Step to Healthcare Reform
2017-03-28: Faithful to the Future: Inspiring Science, Evolving Faith, Realistic Hope
2017-03-03: 13th: From Slave to Criminal with One Amendment
2017-02-03: Community Forum: How to Solve Climate Change and Build a Stronger Economy
2017-01-29: Bridging the Political Divide: Strategies for Constructive Engagement
2016-12-09: Community Forum: Witnesses from Standing Rock Speak
2016-10-07: Forum to Analyze 2016 Ballot Propositions
2016-08-28: "The Brainwashing of My Dad", Special Screening
2016-03-30: Islam and Muslims in America
2016-03-10: Paying the Price for Peace: The Story of S. Brian Willson
2016-03-03: After Tiller
2015-12-05: Capitalism & Climate Change: The Science & Politics of Global Warming
2015-11-19: The TPP -- To Protect People and the Planet, or (Corporate) Profits?
2015-10-26: If the SHU fits -- Voices from Solitary Confinement
2015-10-09: Muses V
2015-05-25: Eyes on the Sky
2015-05-24: MUSES IV
2014-10-13: Marx in Soho
2014-10-13: Kathy Terry: When Living Alone is Not an Option
2014-08-26: MOVE TO AMEND Barnstorming Tour
2014-08-18: DOLLAR DEMOCRACY
2014-08-12: Ode to My Mother
2014-08-06: At The Flash
2014-08-06: Inequality For All
2014-08-06: RISING FROM THE ASHES
2014-08-06: MUSES II * 10.11.14
2014-06-11: LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
2014-04-24: NAMI: In Our Own Voice
2014-04-24: muses
2014-04-03: Sharon Markenson - Climate Change
2014-01-28: OCCUPY LOVE
2014-01-28: Hollye Dexter Gun Violence and the Culture of Fear
2013-12-12: Timber Hawkeye: "Buddhist Boot Camp"
2013-11-11: Queen of the Sun
2013-11-10: Rape in the Fields
2013-10-08: Reportero
2013-07-26: Simmens on Fracking
2013-06-13: Pastors for Peace
2013-05-30: Lost in Detention
2013-05-08: Roy Zimmerman Aug. 17, 2013
2013-05-08: David Cobb 6/9/13
2013-05-03: BIDDER 70
2013-03-19: Brian Rasnow
2013-01-26: Spike Dolomite Ward
2012-12-07: "8"
2012-10-09: Caring Economics
2012-10-01: The Minister's War
2012-09-26: Prop 34 & Prop 36
2012-08-31: Holly Near
2012-08-31: Mark Edward - Psychic Blues
2012-08-24: Anahí Quiroz
2012-08-24: September 2012 GMO Events
2012-08-24: TARANEH SALKE Family Health Alliance
2012-05-29: TESTIMONY
2012-05-16: "Which Way Home*
2012-04-17: **Strong!
2012-04-17: Medea Benjamin
2012-03-24: John Suarez
2012-02-28: Chuck Collins
2012-02-23: Hell and Back Again
2012-02-13: Reclaiming Our Democracy
2012-01-14: "Planned Parenthood"
2012-01-13: REV. MARK KIYIMBA
2012-01-13: Community Cinema: More Than A Month
2012-01-13: Revenge of the Electric Car
2011-12-19: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
2011-12-05: Roy Zimmerman: PeaceNick
2011-12-05: Daisy Bates
2011-11-15: David Korten Photo Album
2011-10-08: BARRY A. FISHER - Kurdistan-Crossroads in the Crosshairs
2011-10-03: Community Cinema - Deaf Jam
2011-09-02: *David Korten
2011-08-17: Rally for the Vote
2011-08-05: Kristine Olsen
2011-07-18: Melanie Joy
2011-06-22: Roy Zimmerman Concert
2011-06-22: John Agnew - The Arab Spring
2011-05-26: Michael Dowd (author of Thank God For Evolution)
2011-05-20: Soraya Deen - Being Muslim in America
2011-03-27: Dr. Lois Lee - Children of the Night
2011-03-26: Roy Zimmerman
2011-03-02: Leave No Brother Behind
2011-03-02: Bullied
2011-03-02: Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things
2011-01-27: This Land Is Our Land
2011-01-17: Our 50th Community Forum
2010-11-20: Father Greg Boyle: SRO
2010-11-20: Father Greg: Book-signing
2010-11-06: 2009
2010-11-06: 2011
2010-11-05: Film: Reconciliation: Mandela's Miracle - December 11, 2010
2010-11-05: Scott Carter - January 8, 2011
2010-11-05: Christopher Smith, MD - January 21, 2011
2010-11-04: 2010
2010-10-30: The Vagina Monologues
2010-10-07: Coming Soon: November 19, 2010 - 7:30 pm Documentary Film, "A Revolving Door."
2010-10-07: Coming Soon: November 12, 2010 - 7:30 pm Father Greg Boyle