Comrades, ACLU, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, HR Network, and now the AFL-CIO have all weighed in with sharp criticisms of the State Dept's report for its Universal Periodic Review on human rights http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/09/03/human-rights-report-highlights-discrimination-inequality-in-u-s/ The US comes up for review in November. Its so important I am devoting 3 hours in each of my human rights courses to it. http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/upr/pages/BasicFacts.aspx Its a teaching moment of great importance if we can be hopeful about the future. Judith Sent from my BlackBerry device from Cincinnati Bell Wireless