On a hot, sunny Saturday afternoon, attendees of all ages visited the Spokane Buddhist Temple to obtain an insight into Japanese culture as they dined on Japanese cuisine, amongst other activities, including the delicious taste of sweet and sour pork and chewy coconut flavor of mochi dessert amidst Buddhist literature, jewelry and other merchandise. 

Sister Mary Eucharista, organizer of the retreat and program organizer at Immaculate Heart Retreat Center, said the retreat focuses on participants using a medium to gain access to “the grace of the retreat,” where they would paint icons in order to achieve that. 

They said that affordable health care plays a significant role in the American Dream and is important for living constructive and inclusive spiritual values.

The speakers will be discussing what the foundations of a free and virtuous society are and how the principles of these foundations can be used to address poverty. 

Alliance for Jobs and Clean Energy, along with FUSE and other groups, held a presentation last Sunday afternoon at Unitarian Universalist Church discussing how climate change has been affecting Washington state and what can be done to change it.

“For the last 25 years, I have spent most of my time researching and documenting the most vile forms of racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, Islamophobia, nativism and other forms of bigotry you could possibly imagine,” Burghart said.