Sunday, September 23, 10:30 a.m., Laura Chapel at HMH
Our guest speaker will be Ken Crowley, who has recently returned from a nine- day trip to Colombia with a Witness For Peace/School of the Americas Watch Delegation. He is speaking about the US role in the continuing violence and the nonviolent resisters of Colombia, many of whom risk their lives daily in an effort to establish human rights. The US has appropriated almost $2 billion in mostly military aid to Colombia in the last two years as part of an anti-narcotics program. This effort has resulted in an increase in violence and human rights abuses against civilians with no reduction in drug exports to the US. Several groups, including the Rand think tank, have recently recommended that the effort in Colombia be refocused as counterinsurgency rather than anti-narcotics and that military aid should be increased. We have a choice of supporting the US funding of a violent civil war, or redirecting our aid toward the promotion of peace. The human rights of millions of Colombians will be affected by our decision.

Huntsville UU Women
Wednesday, September 5: The Women's Sharing Circle will meet from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Fire Station at 2109 Sam Houston Avenue. Sylvia DeVoss will lead the discussion on "Defining and Experiencing Spirituality."

Wednesday, September 12: The UU Women’s group is participating in the third meeting of the Red Hat Society. The meeting is at 1:00 PM at Mr. B's on Highway 75 North (the west feeder road for I-45). Please call JoAnn Harper at 291-0922 if you plan to come to this Wednesday, September 12 meeting.