News and views
on human rights
In This Issue: No. 5: September 2005
•   Join us for Call for Justice Weekend in Washington
•   A radical idea: Let hurricane victims decide future of New Orleans
•   Hunger strike by detainees at Guantanamo
•   Stories from the disaster area: UUSC Hotwire
•   Action alert: Protest threats to Guatemalan human rights activists
Join us for Call for Justice Weekend in Washington
Hundreds of Unitarian Universalists will join with people of many faiths from around the country in Washington, D.C., September 24-26, to protest U.S.-sponsored torture.

Get details and join us.

Hunger strike by detainees at Guantanamo
The mainstream media has virtually ignored the story, but as many as 200 detainees at Guantanamo Bay are now in their second month of a hunger strike.

Read the BBC’s account.

Action alert: Protest threats to Guatemalan human rights activists
Members of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, a UUSC colleague organization, have been subjected to recent death threats.

Learn more and take action.

A radical idea: Let hurricane victims decide future of New Orleans
As the first of many multi-million-dollar contracts are being handed out to rebuild New Orleans, a coalition of low-income groups is speaking out.

"Let the people rebuild New Orleans" explains more.

Stories from the disaster area: UUSC Hotwire
As donations to the joint UUA-UUSC Gulf Coast Relief Fund continue at a rapid pace, more is being learned about who is benefiting and who is being left behind in the government relief program.

Check Hotwire, UUSC's blog, for updates and analyses.

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