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GROUP 4 of Seattle, Washington
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, June 3, at the
above time and location.
Upcoming Events
We invite you to join us for a reception (6:30 - 7 pm), screening and Q&A (7 - 8:30 pm), Tuesday, May 13, at the University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Theater (3940 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle) of Lo que me toco vivir - The Life I Got to Live about Seattle resident Alicia Berrera's experience growing up in rural Chile and after the coup on September 11, 1973 when here husband was wounded and later imprisoned and tortured by the Pinochet regime.Co-sponsored by University of Washington Amnesty International (Group 94) and Students for Women Studies (SOWS).
Join Amnesty International, the Federation for a Democratic China and others for a Commemoration Ceremony of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre on Sunday, June 1 from 2 - 4 pm at Westlake Park in downtown Seattle.
More details shortly.
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
OUTfront Seattle
We welome everyone concerned about LGBT human rights to join OUTfront Seattle, our LGBT rights action team.For more information, including upcoming events, go to:
http://www.outfrontseattle.org/
or send an e-mail to:
outfrontseattle@gmail.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.Our 2008 festival was February 13 -17 at the Cinerama and Northwest Film Forum. Look for more information on our festival at:
http://www.aiwashington.org/filmfest.html
Also check out the festival's MySpace page, including clips from some of this year's films, at:
http://www.myspace.com/seattlehumanrightsfilm
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:
filmfest@aiwashington.org
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
OUTfront Seattle (AI's LGBT Action Team): outfrontseattle@gmail.com
Stop Violence Against Women (Washington State list, mostly Seattle events): jaimiehawk@hotmail.com
Seattle Human Rights Film Festival (planning list): filmfest@aiwashington.org
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!
Seattle Human Rights Film Festival on MySpace
Seattle Human Rights Film Festival now has a MySpace as well.Look for updates as we get closer to our festival in February, and check out videos from our past festivals now.
http://www.myspace.com/seattlehumanrightsfilm
AI Seattle on Facebook
We also have a group on Facebook you can join, as well! Just look up Amnesty International Group 4, Seattle under groups, or follow the link:http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2418458764
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
- Ngawang Phulchung, our adopted Prisoner of Conscience, has been freed!
- Shi Tao, Western Region Special Focus Case
- Corporate Action Network
- Stop Violence Against Women Campaign
- US Domestic Human Rights Program including local police accountability issues
- Death Penalty including
Legislation and
National Weekend of Faith in Action - War on Terror
- Stop Torture
- Health and Human Rights
- Seattle Human Rights Film Festival
- Rhythm N'Rights: AI info table at concerts.
Stop by and sign our petitions!
