Event Series Monthly Membership Call

Monthly Membership Call

Each month, staff from Amnesty International’s Grassroots Leadership and Engagement Unit (GLE) coordinate a Monthly Membership Call. These calls are an opportunity for all Amnesty members to learn about our current priority campaigns, dialogue with other members and staff, find out what’s happening at the national and local levels, and much more! These monthly calls …

5K Run/Walk for Refugees

Join Amnesty International - Chicago activists on Oct. 2 for our 5K run/walk fundraiser along the lakefront. Our group needs to raise about $1,500 for our co-sponsorship of a refugee family coming to Chicago. Suggested voluntary donation is $10 but any amount is welcome. We’d encourage all participants to help us by getting donations from …

Free

Local Group 73: Banned Books and Activism Event

Virtual Event

The Ithaca Local Group #73 of Amnesty International is going to celebrate Banned Books Week with a gathering over Zoom on October 2. Participants will be invited to read a short passage (5 minutes or so) from their favorite banned book, repressed author, threatened poet or endangered journalist, past or present. Suggestions are welcome! If …

Free

Amnesty International Local Group 40, Ames, Iowa Monthly Meeting

57945 Ames, IA, United States

All are invited to participate in our monthly activists gathering, which has gone virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Each month we come together to discuss local and global human rights issues, plan and coordinate activities to promote and protect human rights, and take action on pressing human rights concerns!  We are people from the greater …

AIUSA Group 30: 19th World Day Against the Death Penalty – Honoring Women Loved Ones

Join AIUSA Local Group 30 and friends on October 10th at 9pm ET/8pm CT/6pm PT for an important panel discussion about the death penalty and life without parole (LWOP) with four amazing women whose loved ones are on death row or serving LWOP in California.   RSVP to this virtual event: Meeting Registration - Zoom

The Death Penalty: Not In My Name

October 11, 4:30 - 6:00 pm ET Register here!   Ray Krone was sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. Ray's conviction was due in part to the prosecution's use of "junk science." District Attorneys still use faulty forensic evidence to convict people who are innocent. The newly-emerging science of DNA proved …

Free

The Death Penalty in America: The Case Against Death

Join Florida activists October 15th from 9am-3pm ET a virtual symposium on the death penalty. This one-day, virtual event puts the practice of State executions on trial. Expert witnesses will make the case against this 4000-year-old “ultimate retribution”. ”The Case Against Death” will feature nationally recognized advocates and scholars as well as those who have …