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UUSC’s Civil Liberties Program
goals
UUSC’s Civil Liberties Program focuses on the following areas:
1. Promoting universal civil liberties
Support and work with international partner organizations to
defend civil liberties threatened by the Global War on Terror.
Promote and apply the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2. People opposed to rendition and torture
Support and work with national and international partner
organizations to end torture, extraordinary renditions, and secret
prisons.
Oppose the Military Commissions Act.
3. Civil liberties, youth, and young people
Support and work with youth and young people to defend civil
liberties in the United States and abroad.
Increase understanding and cooperation between UU and Muslim youth
and young people.
Increase intergenerational work.
4. Defending civil liberties in the United States
Support and work with U.S.-based program partners to defend civil
liberties in the United States.
Mobilize UUSC’s constituency to participate in defending civil
liberties.
Endorse and/or oppose national legislation that threatens civil
liberties.
5. Civil liberties and patriotism
Address the right to dissent in the time of war and specifically
during the Global War on Terror and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Support and increase active patriotism by assertion of the
freedoms of speech and assembly.
Support and defend the civil liberties of active duty soldiers,
especially those whose rights are threatened by their opposition to
the Iraq War.
Support the right of soldiers’ families to dissent.
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