{"id":612,"date":"2014-09-10T02:05:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T02:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=612"},"modified":"2016-05-10T04:15:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T04:15:01","slug":"article-groups-goal-help-oppressed-ugandans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/article-groups-goal-help-oppressed-ugandans\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: &#8220;Group&#8217;s goal: Help oppressed Ugandans&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Don Underwood &#8211; Springfield News-Leader &#8211; September 2, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International has reacted by documenting the crimes against the LGBTQ community. In addition, the Unitarian Universalist Association at its recent General Assembly passed a resolution (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/statements\/uua-support-uganda-new-underground-railroad-safely-extract-lgbtq-people-persecution\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.uua.org\/statements\/uua-support-uganda-new-underground-railroad-safely-extract-lgbtq-people-persecution<\/a>) calling upon UU members to support the FNUR, share information on the topic and support asylum seekers. &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230; And, finally, you can join members of the First Unitarian Universalist Church (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldunitarians.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">springfieldunitarians.org\/<\/a>) of Springfield at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 21. We will share information on the FNUR and discuss the issue during our monthly Soup\/Salad and Social Action meeting. You are invited to join us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #34783d;\"><strong>Don Underwood is a member of the Social Action Committee at First Unitarian Universalist Church of Springfield and a former News-Leader Opinion page editor.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read his article in full here:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2014\/09\/03\/groups-goal-help-oppressed-ugandans\/15004051\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2014\/09\/03\/groups-goal-help-oppressed-ugandans\/15004051\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Don Underwood &#8211; Springfield News-Leader &#8211; September 2, 2014 &#8220;Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International has reacted by documenting the crimes against the LGBTQ community. In addition, the Unitarian Universalist Association at its recent General Assembly passed a resolution (http:\/\/www.uua.org\/statements\/uua-support-uganda-new-underground-railroad-safely-extract-lgbtq-people-persecution) calling upon UU members to support the FNUR, share information on the topic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}