Amnesty International, Eastern PA

Friday, May 9, 2008
11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Location and Details TBA

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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.

Tuesday, 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

Monday, April 21, 2008
7:00 pm

Sinclair Auditorium
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

Jacqueline Murekatete is coming to speak at Lehigh University this Monday at 7pm in Sinclair Auditorium.  She survived the 1994 Rwandan genocide and now works for the nonprofit organization Miracle Corners of the World. She has made it her mission to inform others about what it is like to survive such an event and what needs to be done to prevent future genocides.

Thanks to Amnesty International at Lehigh University for this news.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
7:00 pm

Great Room
Seegers Union
Muhlenberg College
Allentown, PA

*This is not an Amnesty International event, but may be of interest to AI supporters.

Professor Ingrid Mattson will present a lecture, “Framing Muslim Women: Islam, Gender and Human Rights in the Global Media” on Tuesday, April 22 at 7p.m. in the Great Room, Seegers Union. The event is free and open to the public.

In her talk, Dr. Mattson will address the case of Pakistani rape-survivor Mukhtar Mai and how her situation was helped or distorted and her story told and re-framed by various groups such as Pakistani and international women’s groups, international journalists and other media and politicians.

Ingrid Mattson, Director of Islamic Chaplaincy and Professor at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, CT, is the first convert to Islam and the first female to lead the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).

She earned her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago in 1999. Her research focuses on Islamic law and society; among her articles are studies on slavery, poverty and Islamic legal theory. Dr. Mattson was born in Canada, where she studied Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario (B.A. ’87). From 1987-1988 she lived in Pakistan where she worked with Afghan refugee women. In 2001 she was elected Vice-President of ISNA and in 2006 she was elected President of the organization.

Aside from her many other accomplishments, you might have heard her as a guest on NPR’s Speaking of Faith just recently.

Muhlenberg College gratefully acknowledges the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation’s support of the Center for Ethics.

Amnesty International at Haverford College is co-sponsoring a solo theater performance by Judith Sloan, this Saturday, April 19th, at 8:00 pm in Stokes Auditorium.

Judith Sloan’s project solo multimedia performance portrays the struggles, humor, and pathos of new immigrants and refugees in Queens, NY, the most polyglot place on the planet.

“Immigrant life as told in the intimate, rich, comic, ironic, and sad stories so often seen but not heard in America’s big cities…” -The Washington Post

“Crossing the BLVD boldly carries the tradition of oral history into the 21th Century…” - Eve Ensler, Author of The Vagina Monologues.

“An offbeat ethnic tour of one of the country’s most ethnically diverse counties…Riveting Stories about a new wave of immigrants to America…”-The New York Times

“Oral history with a twist.” -The World, BBC/PRI, Public Radio International

The performance is sponsored by Haverford’s Amnesty International, Asian Students Association, Genocide Awareness Coalition, International Students Association, Office of Multicultural Affairs, and Re-Mix.

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Saturday, April 19, 2008
8:00 pm

Stokes Auditorium
Haverford College
Haverford PA

Haverford’s AI is co-sponsoring a solo theater performance by Judith Sloan, this Saturday, April 19th at 8:00 pm in Stokes Auditorium.

Judith Sloan’s project solo multimedia performance portrays the struggles, humor, and pathos of new immigrants and refugees in Queens, NY, the most polyglot place on the planet.

“Immigrant life as told in the intimate, rich, comic, ironic, and sad stories so often seen but not heard in America’s big cities…” -The Washington Post

“Crossing the BLVD boldly carries the tradition of oral history into the 21th Century…” - Eve Ensler, Author of The Vagina Monologues.

“An offbeat ethnic tour of one of the country’s most ethnically diverse counties…Riveting Stories about a new wave of immigrants to America…”-The New York Times

“Oral history with a twist.” -The World, BBC/PRI, Public Radio International

Brought to you by: Amnesty International (AI), Asian Students Association (ASA), Genocide Awareness Coalition (GAC), International Students Association (ISA), Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA), and Re-Mix

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
8:00 pm

Huntsman F96
University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania Amnesty International group be watching a documentary as well as brainstorming for next year. This is the group’s last general body meeting of the year.

The University of Delaware Amnesty International group held its most recent meeting on Tuesday, April 8. A few notes from that meeting:

• Some of the members of the UD group will be traveling to the Global Day for Darfur event in Washington, DC on Sunday, April 12.
• UD group members will also join the members of the Wilmington Amnesty local group for their upcoming meeting, Tuesday, April 15 at 7:00 pm at Borders Books and Music, Concord Pike, Wilmington.
• The group will also be meeting for dinner at an Indian buffet on Sunday, April 20.
• Finally, UD group members will be traveling to DC for the upcoming Annual General Meeting, April 25-27.

For more information about the University of Delaware Amnesty International chapter and its upcoming activities, please contact Jenn, Delaware Student Area Coordinator, at jloy@udel.edu.

Sunday, April 13, 2008
7:00 pm
Lehigh University, Maginnes Hall, Room 101

*This is not an Amnesty International event, but may be of interest to AI supporters.

From State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator Maria:

I hope you will consider attending the following event organized by two Lehigh students who have interned this semster with the Lehigh Valley Committee Against State Killing as part of their class on Community Activism and Democracy.

Sunday, April 13, 7PM at Lehigh University, Maginnes Hall, Room 101 there will be a public forum on the death penalty sponsored by the Black Student Union, the College Democrats, the College Republicans, and the Lehigh Patriot.

This debate/discussion will feature attorney Jim Moreno and State Rep. Doug Reichley.

Jim Moreno is a capital defense attorney with the Defenders Association of Philadelphia. He lives in Macungie and was one of Dennis Counterman’s appellate defense attorneys. Jim was instrumental in having Dennis’ capital conviction overturned, and in having Dennis released from prison.

Doug Reichley is a state representative from Emmaus. He is also a former DA, and represented the state of PA against Dennis Counterman at the appellate level.

This is a great opportunity to take part in a thoughtful and informative discussion of the death penalty. Hope to see you there!