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Greetings!
Please join with other MUUSJA members and friends as we enjoy lunch and conversation with Charlie Clements, President of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.
Sincerely,
Jo Haberman, MUUSJA Board Chair Chris Bremer, UUSC Regional Coordinator, Prairie Star North
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Member Lunch with Charlie Clements
A special event for contributors to MUUSJA
You are invited to have lunch with Charlie Clements after his appearance at First Universalist Church (see below for details of his full visit to Minnesota). This event is open to all who have made a recordable contribution to MUUSJA in the past year. We will gratefully accept new memberships/contributions at the event.
The UUSC is an major supporter of and collaborator with MUUSJA on a range of social justice issues. We are pleased to have Charlie give brief remarks and then join in conversation with MUUSJA members and friends.
RSVP please, to Ralph at ralph@muusja.org or 612-998-6624. Not sure if you are a member/supporter? Contact us and we'll be happy to let you know of your most recent contribution.
Where & When
First Universalist Church
Chalice Room
3400 Dupont Ave S
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408
July 6, 2008
12:15PM - 1:30PM
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| Charlie Clements Minnesota Visit
June 28-July 5
Charlie Clements will be leading the featured track at Camp Unistar in northern Minnesota from June 28-July 5, on Human Rights Activism in the 21st Century.
July 6, 10:00-11:00AM
Sermon for Sunday service at First Universalist Church in Minneapolis. He will be speaking about the Iraq war and the UUSC's response. In the Sanctuary, 3400 Dupont Ave S, Minneapolis.
July 6, 11:00AM
Open feedback session with Charlie, after the service. Cummins Room, First Universalist.
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About the UUSC and CEO & President Charlie Clements
Mission Statement
UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies.
Vision Statement
UUSC envisions a world free from oppression and injustice, where all can realize their full human rights.
Charlie Clements
Charlie Clements is a well-known human rights activist and public health physician. Throughout the years, Clements has faced several moral dilemmas that have shaped his life. A graduate of the Air Force Academy, he flew more than 50 missions in the Vietnam War before decidind the war was immoral and refused to fly missions in support of the invasion of Cambodia.
Later, as a  newly trained physician, he chose to work in the midst of El Salvador's civil war, where the villages he served were bombed, rocketed, or strafed by some of the same aircraft in which he had previously trained.
For two years in the late 1980s, Clements served as director of human rights education at UUSC, leading a number of congressional fact-finding delegations to Central America. In 1997, as president of Physicians for Human Rights, he participated both in the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony and the treaty signing for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Clements is author of Witness to War (Bantam) and subject of an Academy Award-winning documentary of the same title. |
| About MUUSJA
MUUSJA is a multi-congregational, multi-issue membership organization with roots back to 2000, and formally organized in 2002, bringing together Unitarian Universalists (UUs) and UU congregations in Minnesota to work collectively for social change. MUUSJA's mission is to be an organized, moral voice for a just and sustainable world.
We are supported in part by the UU Service Committee, the UU Funding Program, and First Universalist Foundation and sustained by our memberships, gifts and by congregational giving. For membership, gift and congregational giving information, please contact Ralph Wyman at 612-998-6624 or ralph@muusja.org. |
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MUUSJA - MN UU Social Justice Alliance
c/o PSD UUA
122 W. Franklin Ave
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
612-998-6624 |
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