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|  Processing
suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Camp X-Ray at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, January 2002. (© AFP / Shane
T. McCoy)
| Founded
in London in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize-winning
grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members
worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused
on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and
mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom
from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all
human rights. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section of
Amnesty International. | | The
Kent State chapter of AIUSA is one of over 2,000 local and student
groups in the U.S. We work to defend human rights around the
world and educate our local area about human rights issues. We table,
write letters, hold teach ins, and educate ourselves. We hold rallies,
candle vigils, protests, movies, and more. We use every non violent
means at our disposal to do our part to protect the rights every person
is born with. |
| AI Kent State is not actively meeting. Contact the Center for Student Involvement and go to www.amnestyusa.org if you are interested in activating the group.
| We joined a March
7 panel discussion on the death penalty, discussing
specifically the cases of Mumia Abu Jamal and Tookie Williams.
| Come see us March 20 at the Coldplay
concert in Cleveland, we will have a table at the "Q"
|  We joined Amnesty at Kent Roosevelt High School
Feb 10 for their annual fundrasing
concert. A short
movie of a band is here.
|  We
joined the Cleveland chapter of Amnesty to table at the U2
concert on
Human Rights Day December 10.
|  Before the semester ended we took part in
Amnesty's Holiday
Card Action, making holiday cards of hope for
prisoners of conscience.
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