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News and Views
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Action alert: Defeat CAFTA this week. Take action now!
Call your U.S. representative today! The full House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). It is essential that we defeat this bill, which would threaten workers, farmers, women, and the environment in the United States and Central America.
Call or write your representative immediately to make sure the House defeats this bill.
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New book on U.S.-sponsored torture by UUSC’s Jennifer Harbury
Jennifer Harbury, a prominent human rights lawyer and director of UUSC’s STOP (Stop Torture Permanently) Campaign, has completed a new book, Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture. The book, which vividly details how U.S.-sponsored torture violates our values and endangers our citizens, is scheduled for release on September 11, 2005.
Read more and pre-order this timely and provocative new book. |
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UUSC Hotwire offers reflections on Civil Rights Journey
More than 60 social activists of all ages from around the country completed a weeklong tour of historic sites in the South that were major battlegrounds in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
Read our UUSC Hotwire for highlights of our second annual Civil Rights Journey, and more. |
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