UUSC-recommended human rights resources
Recommended Reading
Witness to War
by UUSC President & CEO Charlie Clements (Mass Market Paperback -
May 1985) (Out
of Print--Limited Availability)
Suffering in Silence: The Human Rights Nightmare of the Karen People of
Burma
by
Claudio O. Delang,
Karen Human Rights
Group (Introduction),
Kevin Heppner
(Editor)
Bridge of Courage: Life Stories of the Guatemalan
Companeros and Companeras
by Jennifer Harbury, Common Courage Press (Paperback )
Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love, War, and the CIA
in Guatemala
by Jennifer K. Harbury (Out
of Print--Limited Availability)
Books published by the Unitarian Universalist Association
http://www.uua.org/bookstore/index.php
Documents on human rights, environment justice, and bringing
corporations to justice, by UUSC colleague organization EarthRights
International:
http://earthrights.org/pubs.shtml
Service Committee News and other UUSC publications http://www.uusc.org/info/reports.html
Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://udhr.org/
Recommended Viewing
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
The riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in
Florida and the undermining of democracy in America
Find it here:
http://www.unprecedented.org
UnConstitutional
UnCovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
“The story of how truth became the first American casualty in Iraq.”
Find it here: http://www.truthuncovered.com/home.cfm
Witness to War
Witness to War is the Academy Award winning story of UUSC
President & CEO Dr. Charlie Clements, who, as a pilot in Vietnam, seemed
headed for a distinguished Air Force career until he refused further
combat missions. Stripped of his military identity, Clements dedicated
his life to non-violence and healing, ultimately to find himself tending
wounded behind rebel lines in El Salvador.
Find it here:
http://www.frif.com/cat97/t-z/witness_.html
Discovering Dominga
A video
by UUSC partner organization, about the work of UUSC partner
organization
When 29-year-old Iowa housewife Denese Becker decides to return to the
Guatemalan village where she was born, she begins a journey towards
finding her roots, but one filled with harrowing revelations. Denese,
born Dominga, was nine when she became her family's sole survivor of a
massacre of Mayan peasants. Two years later, she was adopted by an
American family. In "Discovering Dominga," Denese's journey home is both
a voyage of self-discovery that permanently alters her relationship to
her American family and a political awakening that sheds light on an act
of genocide against this hemisphere's largest Indian majority. Find it
here:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/discoveringdominga/about.html or
email
memberservices@uusc.org to inquire about borrowing a copy of the
video to show to your congregation or community.
Videos by UUSC
partner, Chiapas Media Project
Purchase videos online at
www.chiapasmediaproject.org
Walking Towards the Dawn: The memory, resistance and hope of the communities displaced by war in Chiapas
Walking Towards the Dawn was produced for the Human Rights Center Fray Bartolome de las Casas based in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. Walking Towards the Dawn presents the Center's work with indigenous communities displaced by paramilitary violence in the state. There are interviews with Bishop Samuel Ruiz and staff who discuss their programs that have provided important psychological counseling to these communities to help them to deal with the devastating effects of paramilitary violence and displacement. The video documents workshops that were conducted with the survivors of the Acteal massacre, who are members of the non-violent group “Las Abejas” located in the Highlands. Also included are interviews with community members from the north of Chiapas who speak about the paramilitary violence in their regions.
(Tzotzil and Spanish w/English subtitles, 2001, 46:00)The Strength of the Indigenous People of Mut Vitz
Producing Fair Trade Organic Coffee in the Highlands of Chiapas Begun in 1996, the Mut Vitz organic coffee cooperative currently has more than 1000 members. The video was shot and edited by videomakers who are also members of the collective. Over a year in the making, Mut Vitz shows us the entire organic coffee production process: from seedling to transplant, cultivation to the roasted bean. Members of the collective talk about the challenges that the collective faces in processing their coffee for market and Mut Vitz's achievements using a fair trade model of distribution.
(2000, 27:05 min., Tzotzil and Spanish w/ English subtitles)
