[Sac-news] UU Minister on "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight on torture! & more

[Susan Leslie]

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Dear SAC-News Readers:

Forgive a second posting this week but I have important updates on our
witness against the Military Commissions Act. 

 
The Rev. Kathleen McTigue, Senior Minister of the Unitarian Society of
New Haven, CT and a founding member of the non-profit group "Reclaiming
the Prophetic Voice," will appear tonight on "The O'Reilly Factor" (8 PM
EDT, check local listings) -- see http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/.  

McTigue, along with an interfaith group of clergy, raised funds to post
two billboards ("The Vote to Allow Torture") on the heavily-traveled
highways I-95 and I-84 to make sure Connecticut residents know which
members of the state's congressional delegation voted for the
recently-signed Military Commissions Act.  President Bush signed the
bill into law earlier this week.  For details on uua.org's coverage of
this story, see http://www.uua.org/news/2006/061018_mca.html .

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We received the following report from the Washington Region Religious
Campaign Against Torture -- an interfaith organization with a large UU
contingent.  (The chair is UU and the meetings are held at River Road
Unitarian Church).  See  www.WRRCAT.org for a description of their
protest against the Military Commissions Act on Tuesday, Oct. 17 outside
the White House.  The group had their own "people's signing statement"
which they tried to present to the president while he was signing the
bill into law.

One of the four religious speakers at the protest was UU minister Rev.
Scott Alexander of River Road Unitarian Church, the "master of
ceremonies" was a UU, and three of the sixteen people arrested in the
civil disobedience are UUs (including the chair of the Washington
region's Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice). 




Susan Leslie
Director for Congregational Advocacy and Witness
Unitarian Universalist Association
25 Beacon Street, Boston MA  02108
(617) 948-4607; sleslie at uua.org
www.uua.org/justice
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