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Fall 2009
Women's Week! November 16th to November 20th
November 16th - Quizzo with One in Four
- Free pizza!
- Prize for the winning team: $50 gift cards to Chipotle
- Huntsman F55 from 6pm - 7pm
November 18th - Self defense class (women only!)
- Sansom Place West
- Contact an amnesty member if you would like to attend! [Space is limited to 15 - 20 women]
November 20th - Speaker event with Marjorie Margolies
- Join us as Professor Margolies discusses her work with Women's Campaign International!
- 6pm in the Rodin Rooftop lounge
- Free Food!
Fall 2009
October 28th - The Ignite Project
Along with college students from all over the country, Amnesty will be showing a film about the human rights abuses in Burma and writing to our senators in order to urge US action.
October 24th - Guantanamo demonstration on college green
Join Amnesty as we don orange jumpsuits in protest of the many prisoners still being held in Guantanamo.
Spring 2009
February 3 to 5: Preparations for Red Hand Day
Stop by the Bistro in Houston Hall (near the Creperie) from 11:30 to 1:00pm to participate in Red Hand Day!
Red hand day is an international event meant to raise awareness about the plight of child soldiers. The Red Hand Symbol shows your commitment to ending the recruitment and use of children as soldiers. (Courtesy of redhandday.org)
February 12th: Red Hand Day
Join Amnesty International as we screen Invisible Children, an award winning documentary about the plight of child soldiers in Northern Uganda.
February 18th: Featured speaker
Come and join Amnesty's discussion about human rights and other pertinent issues with distinguished political science professor Rogers Smith. The event will occur at 6pm at a location TBD.
After earning his Ph.D. from Harvard, Professor Smith took up a teaching position at Yale's Political Science Department in 1980. While at Yale, Professor Smith wrote four books and various other essays in the area of political thought. Since 2004, he has been the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science here at Penn.
March 10: AI USA Eastern/Central Regional Conference
February 22: Film Screening of Mardi Gras: Made in China
Mardi Gras: Made in China is an award winning documentary that traces thegbead trailh from the factory in China to Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras, poignantly exposing the inequities of globalization. Directed by David Redmon.
February 19 to 24: Human Rights Week
For more information, go to the Witness Week website.
December 9: Human Rights Day
This year, we performed several monologues from Speak Truth to Power, a collection of the words of leading human rights defenders around the world. As a part of the Human Rights Day, we also had petition writing and
holiday card making for the prisoners of conscience.
November 9 Film Screening: Lost Boys of Sudan
@ Stouffer Annex 7:00PM
Lost Boys of Sudan is an award-winning documentary that follows two
Sudanese refugees on an extraordinary journey from Africa to America.
Orphaned as young boys in one of Africa's cruelest civil wars, Peter
Dut and Santino Chuor survived lion attacks and militia gunfire to reach
a refugee camp in Kenya along with thousands of other children. From
there, remarkably, they were chosen to come to America. Safe at last
from physical danger and hunger, a world away from home, they find themselves
confronted with the abundance and alienation of contemporary American
suburbia.
Spring 2006
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