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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL U.S.A.
GROUP 4 of Seattle, Washington

e-mail us at aigroup4@gmail.com

Percy and Immi answer questions at our table for the Tiananmen Square Memorial at Hing Hay Park on on May 31, 2009.

Group 4 meetings

Our meetings are usually held on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 PM in the den at Mosaic Coffee House, 4401 2nd Ave. NE, Seattle.

The Mosaic Coffee House is a nonprofit coffee house located in Seattle First Church (behind Dick's Drive In in the Wallingford Neighborhood). Check here for directions, free parking and bus line information.

The next Group 4 meeting is Tuesday, December 1, at the above time and location.

Our meetings are open to the public, and all are welcome.

We'll have report backs from the regional conference and local legislative delegations, upcoming events including our involvement with Seattle's Human Rights Day and our local write-a-thon (see below for details on both), and planning for possible Counter Terror with Justice events of local 10 Against Torture letters and a house party screening of a film on military contractors.

Upcoming Events

Amnesty International is proud to be co-sponsoring the Seattle Human Rights Day Celebration with Professor Adrien K. Wing speaking on women's human rights, downstairs at Town Hall from 7 pm - 8:30 pm on Thursday, December 10.

Professor Adrien K. Wing will speak at a free evening event to celebrate the 14th annual Seattle Human Rights Day. The evening event also will include presentation of the 2009 Human Rights Awards to local human rights leaders.

The 14th annual Seattle Human Rights Day event commemorates the 61st anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted December 10, 1948.

As an expert in international human rights and social justice, Professor Adrien K. Wing has advised the founding fathers and mothers of three constitutions: South Africa, Palestine, and Rwanda. Professor Wing has authored more than 100 publications on topics such as constitutionalism, women's rights, rape in Bosnia, Muslim headscarves in France, Tunisian secularism, and Turkish democracy. Her US-oriented scholarship has focused on race and gender discrimination. An accomplished public speaker, Wing has lectured all over the world.

Human Rights Day 2009 is produced by the Seattle Office for Civil Rights, Seattle Human Rights Commission, the Bush School, United Nations Association-Seattle, and Amnesty International, with support from Seattle Women's Commission, King County Civil Rights Commission, WA State Human Rights Commission, and Youth for Human Rights.

Join us to take part in Amnesty International's Global Write-a-thon on Saturday, December 12 from noon to 2 pm at the Victrola Coffee House at 411 15th Ave E in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.

You can promote freedom and human rights by joining Amnesty International's annual Global Write-a-thon, the world's largest letter writing event!

This global action marking International Human Rights Day brings people together just about anywhere – in classrooms, churches, workplaces, homes, and more – to make a difference in the lives of prisoners of conscience, human rights defenders, victims of torture and other individuals at risk.

Using the proven power of writing letters, they will pressure authorities to release those who have been unjustly imprisoned and to stop the torture and abuse of others.

Last year, more than 7,000 people across the United States sent tens of thousands of letters on behalf of the Write-A-Thon's featured cases. Those letters made a difference in the lives of real people.

Read their stories at: http://www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/successes.php

Look for Amnesty International's table, run by volunteers from Group 4 and other northwest Amnesty groups, at upcoming concerts.

Stop by, sign our petitions and say hi!

Save JoJo!

Help us save our friend, JoJo Tran, who is seeking asylum and in danger of being sent back to Vietnam.

JoJo was a tour guide in Vietnam, who got in serious trouble with the Vietnamese intelligence agency for the activities of his last tour group of American veterans of the Vietnam war.

JoJo works and volunteers for numerous organizations in Seattle including Amnesty International Group 4, SHARE (Seattle Housing and Resource Effort), ROOTS (Rising Out of the Shadows), St. James Cathedral, the American Red Cross (International Services)and the Seattle P-Patch Giving Garden.

Read more about JoJo's case at: http://www.savejojo.com

Seattle Human Rights Film Festival

Grassroot activists from Amnesty International Puget Sound have been presenting the annual Seattle Human Rights Film Festival since 1992.

We are currently planning our 2010 festival. Check out our 2009 festival (held in February), and keep your eye out for more information on our upcoming festival at:

http://www.shrff.org

Also check out the festival's MySpace page, including clips from some of this year's films, at:
http://www.myspace.com/seattlehumanrightsfilm

Join our Fan Page on Facebook as well, at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-Human-Rights-Film-Festival/33583048701

If you're interested in becoming involved in our film festival, want to join our planning listserv or have a film to submit, send us an e-mail at:
seattlehumanrightsfilmfestival@gmail.com

Local AI Listservs

Join our AI Group 4 Info listserv to get updates on meetings and events, or get more involved by joining one of our activist listservs!
Send an e-mail to:

AI Group 4 Info (meeting and event annoucements):
aigroup4@gmail.com

AI Group 4 (discussion & event planning; as well as meeting & event announcements): aigroup4@gmail.com

Stop Violence Against Women (Washington State list, mostly Seattle events): jaimiehawk@hotmail.com

Seattle Human Rights Film Festival (planning list): seattlehumanrightsfilmfestival@gmail.com

AI Seattle on MySpace

AI Group 4 has a page on MySpace. We'll try to keep it updated with a blog, calendar, slide show of local events and relevant video.

Check it out at:

http://www.myspace.com/amnestyseattle

If you have a MySpace page, please consider adding us as a friend!

AI Seattle on Facebook

You can join our group on Facebook you can join, as well! Just look up Amnesty International Group 4, Seattle or follow the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2418458764

RSVP for our monthly meetings and other events, or just show up! Feel free to invite your friends. Our meetings and events are open to all.

AI Seattle on Twitter

Yes, it had to happen! AI Group 4 is now on Twitter. Follow our Tweets at:

http://twitter.com/amnestyseattle

We'll be posting meetings and events, and re-tweeting Amnesty International and other human rights posts. Feel free to re-tweet!

Donations

Copies of Sister Dianna Ortiz's book The Blindfold's Eye are available though our Amnesty International Washington website as a fundraiser for Amnesty International Puget Sound.

Amnesty International Puget Sound is a 501(c)(3) organization and donations are tax deductible.

Amnesty International Puget Sound is the umbrella organization for all local and student groups from Olympia to Bellingham on the west side of the Cascades, and helps fund local events and sending area members to conferences and trainings.

eScrip Donations


Amnesty International Puget Sound is now part of the eScrip fundraising program. Sign up, and a small percentage of your purchases at participating stores and restarurants will be donated at no extra cost to you!

Some of our current activities