2004 Just Works Workcamps
 

Fee: Cost per workcamp –  UUSC members, $275, or $250 for eight-weeks advance purchase; non-UUSC members, $300, or $275 for eight-weeks advance purchase.

 

Freedom Summer Workcamp: A Civil Rights Journey, July 6-12
UUSC’s Freedom Summer Workcamp will honor the courage and sacrifice of those young people who worked in Mississippi to register voters as part of Freedom Summer in 1964. In 2004 youth and young adults from around the country will join us on a civil rights journey to Atlanta, Selma, Montgomery and Birmingham, where the stories told by those who were there will inspire a new generation. This Freedom Summer Work Camp: A Civil Rights Journey will conclude with electoral-related skills training that will equip the participants to return to their communities and campuses as Defending Democracy activists.

 

Defending Democracy Workcamp, Boston, Mass., July 26-30

This workcamp, planned to coincide with the Democratic National Convention, will train youth and young adults – in anticipation of following up in their hometowns – to organize, educate and register voters in neighborhoods of Boston.

 

Teen Workcamp on Native American Issues, Pacific Northwest – Muckleshoot Indians

Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 16-20.

UUSC is working with the Pacific Northwest District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, area UU congregations and the Muckleshoot Indian tribe to develop a weeklong workcamp in Tacoma, Wash. The workcamp will focus on human rights issues such as race, sovereignty and culture. A service component will be included.

 

 

To register for a workcamp, or to learn more about our projects, please contact:

Nguyen Weeks, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

130 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA  02139

Tel: 617.868.6600; fax: 617.868.7102; e-mail: justworks@uusc.org