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Acton COA Invites You to: Acton Rainbow Planning Team Meeting

Acton Senior Center 30 Sudbury Road Rear, Acton

Hybrid Meeting- Join in-person at the Senior Center or from home via Zoom This team of community members explores ways the Council on Aging/Senior Center can meet the programming needs of Acton LGBTQ+ residents age 60 and up. Learn more about OutStanding Life, which offers virtual programming for older adults who identify as LGBTQ+, from our guest Jenn Knight. We welcome new members from the LGBTQ+ community, allies, or municipal employees to join. The goals of the team are for Acton’s LGBTQ+ older adults to have their voices heard about desired activities and find the Senior Center to be a

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Biosphere Book Club: Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Zoom

Of all the books that Energize Acton volunteers display at community events, this book--Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson--has generated the most enthusiasm and interest. The blurb that went out with the book calls it a “once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.”  Katherine Sypher, of NPR, writes, “The woes of the world can be paralyzing. It was refreshing, therefore, to be called to action by Abundance. Well-known journalists and podcast hosts Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that,

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