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Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 05/06/2008 | Shareholder Activists Issue New 'Pepsi Challenge' On Human Right to Water | In the face of increasingly alarming statistics about the global availability of clean drinking water, PepsiCo shareholders and human rights activists have teamed up to demand that PepsiCo create and follow a policy that respects the Human Right to Water. |
| 04/30/2008 | Life in a FEMA Trailer Comes to Birmingham; Local Activists Urge Senator Shelby to Speed Gulf Coast Recovery | As part of a national campaign to raise public awareness about Gulf Coast recovery efforts, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailer is touring Alabama on Thursday and Friday, May 1-2, 2008, to help survivors of hurricanes Katrina and Rita rebuild their lives and livelihoods. |
| 03/27/2008 | Life in a FEMA Trailer Comes to Hartford; Local Activists Urge Sen. Dodd to Speed Gulf Coast Recovery | As part of a national campaign to raise public awareness about the Gulf Coast recovery, a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailer is touring Connecticut this weekend to help survivors of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita rebuild their lives and livelihoods. |
| 01/06/2008 | Wayne Smith, UUSC Civil Liberties program manager, to speak on MLK day | Wayne Smith, a human rights advocate who has worked for pace and reconciliation for the past 30 years, will be the featured speaker at the 6th annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast in Kennebunk. |
| 11/08/2007 | New York road race for Darfur aims message at China | HUNTINGTON, N.Y.--Several hundred runners, walkers, and spectators of all ages participated in a special 5K road race on Sunday, October 21, 2007, with a twofold purpose: Provide humanitarian aid to Darfurians and send a message to the world that the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, must end. |
| 10/30/2007 | UUSC Moves National Headquarters to New Site in Cambridge’s Central Square | The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, an international human rights organization based in Cambridge, has moved its national headquarters to a new location in Cambridge's Central Square. |
| 08/23/2007 | Commemorating Katrina: Two Years Later, the Long Road to Recovery | As part of a weeklong series of events to commemorate the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and the Unitarian Universalist Association will join with Gulf Coast partner organizations in a "29 homes in 29 days" campaign to help hurricane survivors return to New Orleans. |
| 06/18/2007 | National human rights organization joins Portland activists in 'Olympic Dream for Darfur' campaign | What does the annual convention of a liberal religious denomination have to do with the 2008 Olympics? The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is organizing anti-genocide activists from Portland and across the country to make ending the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan a central issue of the 2008 Summer Olympics to be held next year in Beijing, China. |
| 06/10/2007 | Activists Visit Southern Cities to Learn of Past Civil Rights Struggles | More than 30 social activists from around the country are visiting historic sites in the South this week as part of a major experiential learning initiative to promote intercultural understanding. The weeklong "Freedom Summer: A Civil Rights Journey," sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, an international human rights organization based in Cambridge, Mass., includes a bus tour of major Southern cities that were hotbeds of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. |
| 05/05/2007 | UUSC to Partner with Local Anti-Genocide Activists in Portland, Ore. | UUSC raised the Drumbeat for Darfur at the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Portland, Ore. |
| 04/12/2007 | Cambridge human rights organization speaks out for peace in Darfur at major college rally to end the genocide | Several hundred students and other anti-genocide activists are expected to participate on Thursday, April 12, in a major rally to end the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. The event, organized by the local chapter of STAND (Students Taking Action Now for Darfur) will be held from 4-8 p.m. at Berchmans Hall, Elms College, Chicopee. |
| 03/20/2007 | Portland Church Hosts Special Event to Mobilize Activists to Help End the Genocide in Darfur | Charlie Clements, president of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, an international human rights organization based in Cambridge, Mass., will be the featured speaker at a special event in Portland on Saturday, March 24, designed to mobilize public action to help end the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. |
| 12/07/2005 | Statement on Darfur: UUSC calls on international community | In Sudan's western region of Darfur, attacks against the civilian population continue. |
