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Date | Title | Description |
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| 09/18/2008 | Soldiers of Conscience: Torn Between the Demands of Duty and the Call of Conscience | UUSC and our partner Luna Productions are proud to bring you Soldiers of Conscience, a unique documentary film whose message reaches "beyond the choir" to explore pressing questions of conscience facing U.S. service members and our nation today. |
| 09/15/2008 | Monitoring the Situation after Hurricane Ike | Hurricane Ike caused tremendous damage along the Texas
coast and parts of southern Louisiana
when it made landfall on Saturday morning as a strong category-two hurricane.
Extreme winds, heavy rains, and a 13-foot storm surge caused extensive
flooding, destroyed thousands of homes and buildings, and claimed the lives of
at least 31 people across eight states. At least 4 million people are still without
power.
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| 09/08/2008 | Reverse Trick-or-Treating | During Halloween, companies like Nestle USA enjoy their biggest sales to children. Unfortunately, chocolate is no treat for the hundreds of thousands of child cocoa laborers who must work to support their families, sometimes toiling under conditions of slavery. But there's something you can do to help end abusive child labor in the cocoa industry - Reverse Trick-or-Treating! |
| 09/05/2008 | UUSC’s Small Farmer Fund | For every pound of fair trade products sold through the UUSC Coffee Project, a contribution is made to UUSC's Small Farmer Fund. |
| 09/05/2008 | Hurricane Gustav update: Hardest-hit communities struggling to recover | Hurricane Gustav transfixed the nation earlier this week. We did not know where it would hit or how strong it would be. People are still rebuilding their houses after the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita wondered if they would lose everything again. Residents along the Gulf Coast left their homes, seeking refuge further inland, in shelters and hotels and with family and friends. |
| 08/29/2008 | Finding the Will — Statement from UUSC President Charlie Clements | As yet another hurricane — Gustav — bears down on New Orleans on the third anniversary of Katrina, anxious residents are wondering about how well protected they are. |
| 08/28/2008 | Marking the Third Anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita | Three years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
UUSC is working hard to ensure that the survivors of those hurricanes are not
forgotten. |
| 08/27/2008 | Continuing on the Road to Recovery: An interview with Quo Vadis Breaux | Quo Vadis Breaux, executive director of the New Orleans Rebirth Volunteer Center, is no stranger to rebuilding efforts along the Gulf Coast. |
| 08/05/2008 | A Disaster Like No Other | Usually when natural disasters occur, enormous earth-moving and other heavy machinery roll out; helicopters and flotillas are launched on search-and-rescue missions; medics and food supplies are parachuted in; temporary water systems are laid down; and mobile clinic and food distribution sites are established. In Myanmar, none of this happened. |
| 08/05/2008 | Bringing the Olympic Dream to Darfur | "One World One Dream," the theme of the 2008 Summer Olympics, was first announced on June 26, 2007, at a grand ceremony in Beijing. It was chosen from the over 210,000 entries, sent in from all over the world, because it reflects the Olympic spirit of unity, friendship, progress, harmony, participation, and dream. Now, over a year later, just days before the games begin and millions of people tune in to watch the competitions, let us reflect on what it truly means to live in one world with one dream. |
| 07/31/2008 | Right to Water May Soon Be Law in Ecuador! | Ecuadorians won a major victory on July 25, 2008, when provisions to enshrine the human right to water were approved for Ecuador's new draft constitution, which will be put to a national vote in September. |
| 07/29/2008 | Peacekeeping Force Needs More Support to Fulfill Mission | Simple, practical measures can make an enormous difference in the lives of women in Darfur. UNAMID needs adequate resources and proper training to carry out its mission. You can make a difference. |
| 07/28/2008 | UUSC expresses condolences to UU community in Knoxville, Tenn. | The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee expresses shock and sorrow over the shooting that occurred Sunday in the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church. Our humanitarian work around the world too often deals with tragedy, but at this moment we are reminded of how vulnerable all of us are, no matter where we live. |
| 07/23/2008 | Federal Minimum Wage to Increase | The federal minimum wage increase that took effect on July 24, 2008 marks another milestone on the road to economic justice, but the struggle to combat working poverty continues. |
| 07/09/2008 | UU Youth Leader Raziq Brown "Lights the Way" on Social Justice | Raziq George Brown, 19, is a young man who takes social justice seriously. He has traveled half way around the world to countries like Jordan and Ecuador to serve as a youth activist and a leader for the UU community, promoting messages of freedom, self-determination, and justice. |
| 07/01/2008 | At GA 2008, UUSC demands a responsible end to the Iraq war | This year at UUA General Assembly 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., UUSC is shining a light on the war in Iraq, with inspiring workshops and youth events that explore The Cost of Iraq: Who Pays the Price? |
| 06/26/2008 | Update on Attacks in Sudan | In February 2008, the Sudanese government and government-backed militia groups launched fresh attacks on civilians in Western Darfur, killing at least 180 civilians and causing more than 13,000 people to flee their homes and seek protection in internally displaced person (IDP) camps near the Chad border and in refugee camps inside Chad. |
| 06/19/2008 | Civil Liberties: A Strategic Approach | UUSC defends and upholds the principle that all people are entitled to basic human rights and civil liberties. We acknowledge that without an informed and engaged population and robust democratic institutions to protect these rights, people are at risk of government abuse. |
| 06/19/2008 | UUSC Recommendations to Congress to End Torture and Illegal Detention | Freedom
from torture is one of the most fundamental human rights recognized by the
global community today. In the United States, torture has been
deemed abhorrent to our values and incompatible with our legal principles since
the framing of the constitution.
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| 06/19/2008 | A Guide to Torture & Human Rights | The right to be free from torture is one of the most fundamental human rights recognized by the global community today. It is UUSC's firm position that any government-sponsored acts of torture under any circumstances are profoundly immoral, unjustified, and illegal. |
| 06/19/2008 | Background: The Cost of Iraq: Who Pays the Price? | UUSC is proud to play a leading role in the growing movement to responsibly end the Iraq war and the abuses it has engendered. |
| 06/19/2008 | A Disaster Exposes our Race and Class Fault Lines | Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck the US Gulf Coast in August and September 2005, forcing over 1.5 million people from their homes and killing more than 1,000. |
| 06/10/2008 | Announcing the New Orleans Rebirth Volunteer Center | Management
of a joint UUA-UUSC program that has placed some 2,000
volunteers in Louisiana and Mississippi to help with rebuilding
and recovery efforts after the 2005 hurricanes is being
transferred to local leadership. |
| 06/04/2008 | Tsunami in the Indian Ocean: Recovery still a long way off for survivors | Well over three years have passed since the tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean in December 2004, killing more than 200,000 people in over 12 countries, and wiping out countless homes and communities. |
| 06/02/2008 | When Women Are Strong, Society Is Strong | During a March 2008 rally in the city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, over 400 women and men marched past the Supreme Court calling for the recognition of women's land-inheritance rights. Their banners read: "When women are strong, society is strong." |
