Death Penalty Awareness Panel

Virtual Event

The Hamilton Amnesty High School Chapter is hosting a virtual panel focused on highlighting the injustices regarding capital punishment in the US through 5 unique narratives. Our speakers are: - OBIE ANTHONY (falsely convicted at 19 and served 17 years) - DR. CHRIS BROWN (grew up with a father on death row) - GEORGE WHITE …

Event Series AIUSA Group 78, Detroit

AIUSA Group 78, Detroit

Meeting monthly, third Monday evening at 7:30 p.m., First Unitarian Universalist Church House, 4605 Cass (at Prentis), Detroit, MI. Letters and petitions to sign, discussion of AI human rights concerns, plans for future actions. Light refreshments. 90 minutes, max. For further information contact Ken and Geraldine, email: [email protected]

Panel: Race & The Death Penalty

Virtual Event

The program will examine the history of executions in America and how discrimination bleeds into the entire criminal justice system. It traces a line from lynchings of old --- killings outside the law --- where Black people were killed in an effort to assert social control during slavery and Jim Crow, and how that eventually …

2021 Write for Rights Virtual Event

Please join our annual W4R event, hosted by AIUSA Group 11 NYC. All are welcome! This year it will be virtual via Zoom. Enjoy Music & Poetry, Walk Through the Cases, get help if you need anything, and Sign Letters Together. Sign up on Eventbrite at "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aiusa-write-for-rights-group-11-nyc-tickets-134806827851" for free to receive details and the Zoom …

Free

Monthly Membership Call – January

Join us to learn more about Amnesty’s new body of work on technology and human rights, as well as our new campaign on facial recognition technology (FRT). Facial recognition technology is being used widely across many kinds of applications. Our new campaign sets out to expose the pervasiveness and human rights implications of these FRT. …

Break the Cycle: Addressing Today’s Gun Violence

Virtual Event

Tune in on Thursday, January 28th at 6:00pm ET as Ernest Coverson, Manager of Amnesty’s End Gun Violence Campaign, joins several other speakers to discuss gun violence and the work community based organizations continue to do. AIUSA is urging congress to introduce and pass Break the Cycle of Violence Act, which provides federal funding for …