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Meetings date and time
Fall 2009 every other Tuesday of the month. 9:00PM (no class conflicts!)
Location varies - reminder e-mail will say where.
If you need to catch up, contact Julia about events now under planning:
- Jamnesty concert for January, attendance at AI regional meeting (in Chicago this fall), some awareness event for Human Rights Day December 10
University of Iowa Amnesty International Chapter - 2009
Core group
Julia Zalenski
Renugan Raidoo
Sarah LeNeave
Maria Hope
Active members
Melissa Baughman
Crystal Alft
Christian Jorgensen
Connor Spinks
Mena Ramm
If you would like more info about joining the University of Iowa chapter of Amnesty International, please e-mail Julia.
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Calendar
for an idea |
of previous year's activities, see below. |
| 2007-08 | |
April 30 |
Free tickets to Bijou film Taxi to the Dark Side, documentary on the practice of rendition, interrogation practices and torture. |
April 28 |
Fundraiser at Coldstone Creamery - scooped icecream for a percentage of the profits adn all tips. |
April |
National Week of Student Action - gathered signatures on letters and petitions to protest abuses at Guantanamo. |
Jan 22 |
Jamnesty Benefit Concert at Old Brick. Jam fest and letterwriting/awareness raising for two causes - AI's Denounce Torture Campaign and DarfruFast an initiative to protect displaced women in Sudan's refugee camps. |
thruout the fall |
*some members caucused for Darfur - raising human rights issues at various political events. *group maintained office hours at our cubicle in the IMU Student Organizations Suite. |
Nov 2 - 4 |
The AI Midwest Regional Conference in Omaha Nebraska, attended by some. |
Oct 11 |
Bijou film The Devil Came on Horseback - attended screening and discussion with panel including the filmmaker. |
Oct 8 |
Thai Flavors Restaurant fundraiser & dinner meeting. |
week of Oct 8 |
Tabling for the Global Darfur Petition . National goal of 500,000 signatures to be delivered to the White House on Oct 24, in support of a UN peacekeeping force. |
Sept 22 |
Saturday noon concert on the Ped Mall Iowa City stop by singer-songwriter Jerry Leggett touring the country in his vw "Peace Bubble". |
Sept 17 |
Sunday Sept 17 Spaghetti dinner & screening of Facing Darfur |
| 2006-07 | |
| February 21 | planning meeting for semester events |
| January 17 | first meetingof the semester - Denounce Torture |
| December 5 | for International Human Rights Day Dec 10 Shining a Light on Cases and Campaigns: the Work of Amnesty International candlelight event on the Ped Mall |
| October 27-29 | AI Midwest Regional Meeting/ Chicago, De Paul University campus |
| October 4 | brief meeting prior to 7:30 talk in MacBride Hall by journalist Nicholas Kristof, Report on Darfur: First Genocide of the 21st Century |
| September 23 - 28 | Docudrama The Road to Guantanamo/ playing at the Bijou theater IMU; informal post discussion |
| week of September 17 | Human Rights Watch week of Action for Darfur / Virtual space: click on Current action on our home page |
Sept 6 , 2006 |
First meeting of the semester/ IC Public Library, Room A |
at Midwest Regional Meeting in St. Louis
Thai Thai
Thai Flavors Fundraiser 2006
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