Archive for May, 2008
Cell Tour Special Event Postponed – Come Tomorrow!
Posted May 31st, 2008 by April | Amnesty News
The Amnesty International Cell Tour Special Event that was to be held today at noon was postponed due to the thunderstorm. Instead, it will be TOMORROW from noon to 2 pm.
Philadelphia Cell Tour Special Event
Sunday, June 1, 2008
12 noon – 2 pm
Dilworth Plaza, 1400 JFK Blvd., Philadelphia (right next to City Hall)
Larry Cox, Executive Director of AIUSA, will speak
Music by The Late Night Drifters
The Cell itself will be open for tours from 10 am to 5 pm tomorrow. Come and see Amnesty International’s replica of a Guantanamo Bay prison cell. While there, you can record a video of your own thoughts about the cell to be published on YouTube and tearitdown.org, and also sign our petition asking for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
The Cell arrives in Philadelphia in just a few days
Posted May 27th, 2008 by April | Amnesty News
A replica of a Guantánamo Bay prison cell is on its way to Philadelphia.
Amnesty International is bringing a life-size model of a maximum security cell from Guantánamo to cities across the USA. The tour is a way to enable people in the United States to get a glimpse of the harsh realities of illegal detention and prolonged isolation. Visit Amnesty International’s replica of a Guantánamo cell and join us in calling on the U.S. government to charge detainees and give them fair trials, or release them.
When:
Friday, May 30th, 1pm – 7pm
Saturday, May 31st, 9am – 7pm
Sunday, June 1st, 10am – 5pm
Where:
Dilworth Plaza, 1400 JFK Blvd, Philadelphia, PA
Special Event:
Saturday, May 31st, Noon – 2pm
Keynote Speaker: Ellen Dorsey, Chair, Amnesty International USA Board of Directors
Also featuring: The Late Night Drifters and singer-songwriter Tom Mullian
The cell will be traveling around on the back of a truck on Thursday, before it makes its debut in Dilworth Plaza on Friday… watch out for it in the Philadelphia and Valley Forge areas…
Chinatown group meeting night – typo and meeting change
Posted May 7th, 2008 by April | Amnesty News, Chinatown
The calendar on this website had listed the Chinatown Amnesty International group’s next meeting as May 13. In fact, their May meeting was held last night, May 6. I apologize to anyone who missed the meeting!
Also, please note that the Chinatown group is changing their meeting night to the third Tuesday of each month. So their next meeting will be held Tuesday, June 17, at 7:00 pm at 1032 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
“Displaced” at University of Delaware
Posted May 1st, 2008 by April | Student Groups, University of Delaware
May 15, 2008, 9:00 am
Central Green (by Memorial Steps & Library)
Darfur event. Details TBA
UD Group Table at “Get Political” Fair
Posted May 1st, 2008 by April | Student Groups, University of Delaware
May 9, 2008
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location and Details TBA
University of Delaware AI Group Meeting
Posted May 1st, 2008 by April | Student Groups, University of Delaware
May 13, 7:00 pm
218 Gore Hall
University of Delaware
Newark DE
University of Delaware AI group’s last meeting of the semester. Next year’s officers will be announced.
University of Delaware AI Group Meeting
Posted May 1st, 2008 by April | Student Groups, University of Delaware
May 6, 2008, 7:00 pm
218 Gore Hall
University of Delaware
Newark DE
The University of Delaware AI chapter will be holding officer elections for next year at this meeting. For more information, please contact jloy@udel.edu
Amnesty International Meeting in Newark, Delaware
Posted May 1st, 2008 by April | Delaware
May 10, 2008 2:00 pm
Panera Bread
140 East Main Street
Newark, DE 19711
(302) 292-8960
Join us at Panera’s on Main Street in Newark to learn how you can be part of an Amnesty International chapter in Newark, Delaware. Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the world’s largest grass roots human rights organization.
For more information or questions, please contact Eric Merlino, Delaware Area Coordinator, at 302-764-5480 or Koalabear64@cs.com
Witness to Persecution – Falun Gong Practitioners in the US Speak Out (Philadelphia)*
Posted May 1st, 2008 by April | Other Human Rights News
Sedgwick Gallery
7137 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19119
*This is not an Amnesty International event, but may be of interest to AI supporters.
Witness to Persecution – Falun Gong Practitioners in the US Speak Out
Photographs by Nathea Lee
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual cultivation practice that includes five sets of meditative exercises and teachings based on the universal principles of Zhen, Shan, Ren – Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance. In 1992, Mr. Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong in China. Seven years later – after a state survey revealed that up to 70 million people across the country had taken up the practice – China’s Communist government banned Falun Gong and began an inhumane campaign of persecution against its followers. Today, it is freely practiced by more than 100 million people in more than 80 countries. While the persecution continues inside China, practitioners in other countries bear witness and use various peaceful means to expose the truth. The images in this exhibition were taken at awareness activities in the U.S.
Exhibition Hours:
Opening Reception: May 2, 5:30PM
Mondays & Wednesdays: Noon – 8:00PM
Saturdays & Sundays: Noon – 6:00PM
Witness to Persecution exhibit flyer (PDF)
Center City group 112 to hold table this Saturday at symbolic Torch Relay
Posted May 1st, 2008 by April | Philly Center City
Amnesty International Center City Philadelphia, Group 112, will be having a table at the symbolic Olympic Torch Relay from noon to 4pm at Independence Mall, near the Liberty Bell at 5th and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia. The group will sell candles and will have letters and petitions for people to sign, as well as information about Amnesty International and Group 112.
The Olympic Torch Relay event will include a free concert, rally, and the torch run, all as a means of spotlighting the human rights situation in China. For more information about the symbolic torch relay, see humanrightstorch.org or email HRTR@comcast.net.
Amnesty International is pressing for substantial reforms in the human rights situation in China in four key areas: the death penalty; punitive detention without trial; treatment of human rights defenders; and unwarranted censorship of the internet. To learn more about Amnesty’s campaign, “China: Olympic Legacy,” please visit www.amnestyusa.org/chinaolympics