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AI USA: Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Date: Friday March 23, 2007 - Sunday March 25, 2007
Time:
Place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Check with the Amnesty International club at ASU West for details on how to attend this national conference.

AI Legislative Institute for Legislative Coordinators

Date: Friday March 2, 2007 - Monday May 7, 2007
Time:
Place: Washington, DC

Release of dear colleague lobbying action for Joshua Fessahaye Yohannes of Eritrea

Date: Thursday February 15, 2007 - Thursday February 15, 2007
Time:
Place:

Eritrea: One Heart Betrayed

Date: Friday February 2, 2007
Time: 06:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Place: Phoenix Art Walk - Near the Eye Lounge

Eritrea: One Heart Betrayed will be displayed and open for interactive tours.

Chiapas Media Project

Date: Monday November 27, 2006
Time: 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Place: Kiva

Learn about the struggle for human dignity in Chiapas while enjoying fair trade refreshments!

Films to be shone include:

WTO: A Threat to Humanity - showing at 3:30
Educationin Resistance - showing at 5:00 pm

Each film will be followed by discussion with a representative from the Chiapas Media Project.
Added Link: Flyer
Added Link: Chaipas Media Project

Western Regional Conference

Date: Friday October 13, 2006 - Sunday October 15, 2006
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: Tucson - TBA

Join members of the Amnesty International club at ASU West on their annual trip to the Western Regional Conference. This year it is in Tucson!

This is a great opportunity to learn about Amensty International and human rights, meet other people interested in promoting human rights and have a great time!

We hope to see you there!

Banned Books Reading

Date: Tuesday September 26, 2006
Time: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Place: North of Fletcher Library

Amnesty International members will organize readings of banned / challenged books and provide information regarding prisoners of conscience and those imprisoned for their work in the publishing industry. Library employees will offer information regarding banned and challenged books.

Faith and culture based campus organizations are strongly encouraged to participate in this event. Audience members may participate by reading from any banned or challenged texts. Bring your own book OR check one out of the library!

Banned Books Awareness Week

Date: Saturday September 23, 2006 - Saturday September 30, 2006
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: In front of the Library and elsewhere

There are many events this week. Click on the links below to check 'em all out!

The recognition of this event acknowledges the library profession’s commitment to democracy by celebrating the “freedom to read freely” while underscoring the University's commitment to protecting diversity of culture and conscience. Recognizing the relationship between the freedom to read and the freedom to create, the Amnesty International student club has joined the Library Diversity Initiative Team in co-sponsoring the celebration, emphasizing human rights and freedom of conscience while addressing the real-life cases of people imprisoned for their expression.

Book Art Workshop

Date: Wednesday September 20, 2006
Time: 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Place: Library Front Porch (West)

Come help to make artbooks for the Books Behind Bars art exhibit.

Denounce Torture - Eritrea and Elsewhere

Date: Friday July 7, 2006
Time: 06:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Place: Holga's Art Gallery - 3rd St and Garfields

Eritrea: One Heart Betrayed will be displayed and open for interactive tours.

Annual General Meeting

Date: Friday April 28, 2006 - Sunday April 30, 2006
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: Portland, Oregon

Corporations, Justice, and the Border

Date: Wednesday April 19, 2006 - Saturday April 22, 2006
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: ASU's West Campus

Added Link: Flyer
Added Link: Corporations Curriculum (pdf)

Training: Legislative Coordinator

Date: Friday March 3, 2006 - Monday March 6, 2006
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: Washington DC

Attended by club member Emily Taylor

Eritrean Human Rights Informational Meeting

Date: Thursday February 9, 2006 - Thursday February 9, 2006
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Place: UCB, Room 264

Friends of Aster Meeting

Date: Thursday January 12, 2006
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Place: Unitarian Universalist Church / 4027 East Lincoln Drive ~ Paradise Valley
Added Link: Friends of Aster (org)

March: Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime

Date: Saturday December 17, 2005
Time: 01:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Place: East Lake Park, 1549 E. Jefferson To Cesar Chavez Plaza
Added Link: AI Concerns

AI Western Regional Conference

Date: Friday November 11, 2005 - Sunday November 13, 2005
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: Holiday Inn Golden Gateway, San Francisco

Attend various workshops to gain a better understanding of Amnesty International, human rights issues, and current developments. Network with local and regional human rights activists. Not to mention, fun in California!

Women Confronting Globalization

Date: Thursday November 3, 2005
Time: 06:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Place: Kiva Lecture Hall - ASU's West Campus

Event will:

Discuss threats to indigenous communities, especially women, such as the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Area of the Americas, North American Free Trade Agreement, Plan Puebla Panama, and the corn and coffee crises in Mexico.
Discuss human rights abuses in Mexico, their relationship to globalization and how indigenous communities are working to end the abuses and impunity.
Discuss the political context for the Red Alert called by Zapatista communities in the summer of 2005, and the 6th Declaration of the Selva Lacandona issued by the Zapatistas, in terms of how it relates to the development of alternative economies.
Promote a sustainable model of international trade based on economic justice.
Discuss the leadership of women in fair trade cooperatives.
Offer weavings and traditional handicrafts made in women's cooperatives for sale to raise money to improve living conditions in communities.

Added Link: Mexico Solidarity Network

Banned Books Week

Date: Saturday September 24, 2005 - Saturday October 1, 2005
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: ASU West

Amnesty International celebrates banned books week annually in commemoration of those prisoners of conscious persecuted for the peaceful expression of their beliefs. Attend this thought-provoking series of events in protest of censorship.
Added Link: Photos

Amnesty International Arizona Statewide Conference

Date: Saturday September 17, 2005 - Saturday September 17, 2005
Time: 09:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Place: ASU's West Campus - CLCC 110

Amnesty International branches from across the state of Arizona join together to host and attend informative workshops related to various human rights issues.

Write-a-thon

Date: Thursday September 15, 2005
Time: 04:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Place: Las Casas (dorms) Community Center

AI-ASUW students will sponsor a letter writing evening. All interested persons are invited. Letters will be written in support of human rights and to call for the release of people imprisoned for their non-violent ideas and expression.
Added Link: Flyer

Stop Torture - Film, Speakers, Teach-In

Date: Sunday June 26, 2005
Time: 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM
Place: ASU in Tempe - Coor Building Room 174

Added Link: Flyer

Amnesty International ASUW Elections

Date: Monday May 30, 2005
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: UCB 323

AI-ASUW needs leadership for the 2005-06. Please come and volunteer.

Taser Rally

Date: Friday May 27, 2005
Time: 04:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Place: Patriot Square Park

Stop Torture Campaign - Phx Metro Meeting

Date: Thursday May 19, 2005
Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Place: Borders: 24th St & Camelback

Community Action Grant Meeting

Date: Thursday April 28, 2005
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Place: Tempe Campus

Business and Human Rights

Date: Wednesday April 27, 2005
Time: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Place: ASU - Tempe - MU 219

Business and Human Rights
Disasters in India and Ecuador

Documentary Film Showing and Discussion

BBC documentary: One Night in Bhopal

Join the discussion on the issue of business ethics and corporate responsibility in the face of ecological disasters, from Exxon to DOW chemicals to ChevronTexaco

Take action! Defend the rights of indigenous communities in the Amazon who have been forever scarred by the contamination of their source of survival. Defend those in Bhopal, India where more than half a million people continue to suffer even 20 years after the largest chemical disaster in world history.

The event will take place on the Tempe ASU campus in the Memorial Union (MU). You can find it on the map at: www.asu.edu/map

Statewide Meeting

Date: Saturday April 23, 2005
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: University of Arizona / Tucson

Discussion of a wide array of Amnesty Issues and organizational strategies. May include sessions on the following: legislative work, the REAL ID Act, SVAW, Tasers, Eritrea, Children, Torture, etc.

AI's field organizer for the southwest will be in attendance.

No More Deaths Border Justice Event

Date: Wednesday April 20, 2005
Time: 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Place: Fletcher Lawn - ASUW

Event / Festival to raise awareness of the migrant deaths near the US/Mexico border.

AI USA - Annual General Meeting

Date: Friday April 8, 2005 - Sunday April 10, 2005
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: Austin, TX

Stop Violence Against Women - Festival!

Date: Thursday March 31, 2005
Time: 02:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Place: Fletcher Lawn (Rain La Sala)

Added Link: More Info / Schedule

Film: You Can't Beat a Woman (SVAW Event)

Date: Wednesday March 30, 2005
Time: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Place: La Sala B
Added Link: Film Info

Lecture: Human Rights Meets Feminism (film to follow)

Date: Wednesday March 30, 2005
Time: 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Place: Sands 135
Added Link: Panel Abstract

SVAW - Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Date: Wednesday March 30, 2005
Time: 09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Place: Sands 234

Film and Vigil: Crimes of Honor (SVAW Event)

Date: Tuesday March 29, 2005
Time: 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Place: Fletcher Lawn

Added Link: Film Info

Stop Violence Against Women - Local Issues

Date: Tuesday March 29, 2005
Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Place: La Sala B

Panel discussion on domestic violence, the disparity of the spousal rape penalty, and sexual assault of incarcerated women.
Added Link: More Info / Schedule

Stop Violence Against Women - Week of Events

Date: Monday March 28, 2005 - Thursday March 31, 2005
Time: 04:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Place: ASU at the West Campus

Week-long event drawing attention to Human Rights Abuses inflicted upon women. Addresses issues at the local, regional, national and global level.
Added Link: Flyer
Added Link: Schedule of Events

Meeting with AI Western Regional Director

Date: Friday March 4, 2005
Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Place: 3 Roots Cafe / Mill Avenue / Tempe

Meet with Erin Callahan, Director of the Western Regional Office in San Francisco.
Added Link: Erin Callahan's Bio

Local to Global Justice 4th Annual Teach-in

Date: Friday March 4, 2005 - Saturday March 5, 2005
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: ASU Tempe

Brings together an array workshops sponsored by local progressive groups. Volunteers are needed to Staff the statewide AI table.
Added Link: Link to Program (pdf)

Film Screening - Hotel Rwanda

Date: Saturday February 5, 2005
Time: 07:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Place: Camelview Theater

AI members from around the Valley get together for film screening of this important HR related film. Social activities to follow.
Added Link: Film Review / Description

Write-a-Thon & Holiday Card Writing

Date: Friday December 10, 2004
Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Place: Fair Trade Cafe

AI ASUW members will join with other AI groups and community members to write hundreds of letters in support of human rights.

It should be a good time so anybody who is interested can stop by the cafe (located at Central Avenue and Roosevelt in downtown Phoenix - 1020 N. First Ave) between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. We'll provide paper and postage.

Added Link: Flyer
Added Link: AIUSA - Holiday Card Action 2004

Light of Hope Human Rights Conference

Date: Saturday November 20, 2004
Time: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
Place: ASU West Campus - CLCC

AI at ASU West will support this day of discussion on Human Rights Issues. AI members will offer a 2 hour presentation on the Human Rights of Children and Young Adults.

Schedule:

9:00 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony

10:15 - 12:15 Concurrent Workshops

Children's Rights
Human Trafficking
HIV/AIDS
Immigration Issues
Juarez Women / Femicide
Indigenous Peoples Rights
Multicultural Training

12:15 - 1:30 Free Lunch and Movie Presentation

1:30 - 4:30 "The Circle's Roundtable" and Conference Wrap-up

Dinner fund-raiser for the Light of Hope Institute follows at the Ritz-Carlton. For more information call 480-837-5534.

Added Link: Press Release
Added Link: Flyer
Added Link: Research Guide - Children's Rights and Trafficking (ASUW Library)

Children's Rights Workshop

Date: Saturday November 20, 2004
Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Place: ASUW - CLCC 206

AI-ASUW members will conduct workshop on Children's Rights. Focus will be on Child Soldiers, Juvenile Death Penalty, and the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Workshop will result in the development of activist materials including promotional items and the creation of various petitions.

Workshop is part of the Light of Hope Human Rights Conference (see below).

Added Link: Research Guide - Children's Rights and Trafficking (ASUW Library)
Added Link: Child Soliders Power Point (ppt)
Added Link: Flyer
Added Link: Bibliography, Research, and Speaker Info

Western Regional Conference

Date: Friday November 12, 2004 - Sunday November 14, 2004
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: Salt Lake City, UT

The Western Regional Conference is a GREAT way for new members to have fun, meet new people, and get acquainted with AI issues.

Featured speakers include WIlliam F. Schulz, Executive Director of AIUSA and Magdaleno Rose-Avila, Executive Directory of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. Program highlights include panels on Sudan, "War on Terror", Torture in Iraq, Violence against Women, Refugees, Corporate Accountability, etc.

AI-ASUW will be driving/caravaning to this event. It looks like we will have more than 8 AI-ASUW members attending. Contact mmsherzada@yahoo.com ASAP if interested in attending.

International Caravan for Justice in Juarez and Chihuahua

Date: Thursday October 28, 2004
Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Place: Bulpitt Auditorium, Phoenix College

On October 28, Phoenix will host the International Caravan for Justice in Juarez and Chihuahua City on its way to the twin border cities of El Paso, TX and Juarez, Mexico. The Caravan is a bi-national effort to demand justice in the cases of nearly 400 young and poor women murdered in Juarez since 1994. Raising consciousness about conditions faced by women along the border, participants in the Caravan will conclude their journey with a bi-national march from El Paso to Juarez.

Hosted by the Phoenix College Amnesty International Group, the Phoenix stop of the Caravan will feature personal testimony by the mother of a young woman killed in 1995.

More info: contact Joseph Guitierrez at josephguitierrez92@hotmail.com
Added Link: Flyer
Added Link: Bibliography, Research, and Speaker Info
Added Link: MexicoSolidarity

National Weekend of Faith in Action

Date: Friday October 22, 2004 - Sunday October 24, 2004
Time: 09:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place:

Annual event sponsored by AI USA. AI-ASUW has no specific plans. Please consider promoting Human Rights at your church or place of worship.

Fall 2004 Statewide Meeting -

Date: Saturday October 2, 2004
Time: 09:30 AM - 04:30 PM
Place: ASU Tempe - Lattie Coor Hall - Rm 174

The statewide meetings are a great chance to get together with other AI folk from around the state while learning much about human rights and Amnesty International. Plan to attend if you can!

Events to include Amnesty 101, Legislative Work, Group strategizing, Death penalty, Stop Violence Against Women Campaign, Eritrea, Darfur Sudan. Samer Rabadi, the Deputy Field Director of the Western Region is coming to Tempe and will give an overview of the 2004-2006 Stop Violence Women Campaign.
Added Link: See photos from last statewide.

Banned Books Week

Date: Saturday September 25, 2004 - Saturday October 2, 2004
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Place: ASU West Library and Campus

ASU West Library will feature a banned books display and exhibit. Amnesty International will contribute to this display, raising awareness of human rights issues associated with freedom of expression. Additionally, AI will seek support for the release of those imprisoned for their writing.
Added Link: Flyer
Added Link: Bibliography, Research, and Speaker Info
Added Link: Radio Interview (2MB wav file)

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