TUESDAY APRIL 21st, Amnesty International and the Delta Phi sorority are helping promote human trafficking awareness. Stop by a table in either Phelps or Dewitt to find out more!

At 8pm in Martha Miller 135 (Fried Hemmingway Auditorium)Stephanie Nudelman, who spent this past semester in India, will be speaking about her experiences working and serving God in Calcutta. We will also show clips for the Not For Sale documentary.

For more information on human trafficking and what you can do to help check out the following organizations:
www.notforsalecampaign.org/
www.freesetbags.com/
www.ijm.org/
www.threadsofhope.com.ph/about.htm


Have a wonderful end of the semester and a great summer. Seniors/transfers: good luck and may peace be with you all.

an Amnesty International write-a-thon.

Thursday, April 9.
Open House 11am-2pm .
Maas Conference.

Around the world, people are imprisoned based on their political or social values. Please take ten minutes from your day to write a letter on behalf of one of these prisoners of conscience. Also, take time to write to your representatives/senators and tell them what's important to you. You have a voice

Please print off a poster and hang it on your door too!



write_a_thon_poster_09.doc

Greetings!

First, thank you to everyone who came to the Michigan Peace Team presentation and/or the faculty panel the day before.

Second, our meetings are still at 8pm on Tuesdays in Martha Miller 241. Our meetings are scheduled for an hour, but we usually end early. It would be great for you to join us!

Finally, we are in the process of planning events for later this semester. These (might) include dicussion on the closing of Guantanamo and events centered around raising awareness of Human Trafficking/the Sex Trade. If you are interested in helping/have ideas for either isssue, feel free to contact us! (amnesty@hope.edu)

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James

Who: The Michigan Peace Team
What: Presentation--The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
When: 4pm, Thursday January 22nd
Where: Phelps Otte Room (enter through the 10th st. entrance, then turn left)
Why? The war between Israel and Palestine, more specifically Hamas, has escallated rapidly in the past few weeks. People who have been to the area will be here to talk about it.

Please print out the attatched poster (click on the link below) and put it up in your dorm or on your door. Thank you so much.
Hope to see you there!

MPT_Poster.pdf

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Greetings!

Welcome to Hope's Amnesty International site.

We are really excited about this upcoming semester. Right now we are scheduling the Michigan Peace Team to present here in a few weeks. They will be addressing the on-going conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Other issues we will likely cover this semester include Human-Trafficking and the status of Guantanamo Bay.

Our leadership for this year is as follows:

Co-Presidents: Evan Dawson and James Colten

Treasurer: Jacob Lyons

If you have any questions, comments, or would like to be put on our mailing list, email amnesty@hope.edu .

Labels: amnesty, greetings, issues, leadership

A principle component of Amnesty International's action is letter writing. Approximately every two weeks, Amnesty International sends out a list of cases where individuals are facing serious, and often life-threatening, human rights violations. Urgent action cases may range from cases of torture to being arrested without charged to unjust imprisonment. Amnesty International's members write letters to relevant government officials worldwide in order bring the situations to their attention and to place pressure on the officials to improve them.

As a result of these urgent actions, over 40,000 prisoners of conscience have been released. On July 20, 2007, Mesfin Woldemariam, Ethiopia's most prominent human rights defends was released along with 37 Ethiopian opposition party officials, prominent human rights defenders, and journalists. On January 27, 2006, a prisoner of conscience from Russia was released after "disappearing" on the 12th. In September 2005, 1.2 million letters from Amnesty International members saved a Nigerian woman from being stoned to death. For more success stories, visit Amnesty International USA's Success Stories!.

For more information visit:

Amnesty International's Urgent Action Network
Amnesty International's Letter Writing Guide

Once you have written and addressed your letter, drop off your letter in the Amnesty International box at the Student Union Desk. We provide postage.