The Ithaca Amnesty International group invites the public to its
Human Rights Day candlelight vigil and letter-signing: 5 to
6:30 pm, Thursday, Dec. 10, at the center pavilion on the
Ithaca Commons. Info: 273-3009.

As always, we will be meeting at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave starting at 7:30pm.  Look forward to see you!

The Amnesty International chapter in Ithaca will be holding it’s annual fundraiser, November 21.  Details to follow.

TV Show: Cable Channel 13. Cameraman Jurden Alexander and producer Wies van Leuken’s series “Over the Shoulder” has many items of
human-rights/Amnesty interest. Weekly 1-hour programs (premiere, 3
repeats) Tue. 9 PM; Wed. 1:30 PM; Thur. 9 AM; Sat. 11 PM.

*98  The Prospects for Peace in the Middle East   *10/13,14,15,17
General Anthony Zinni,  Cornell’s Frank Rhodes Class of 1965 Professor,
gave his views on the Middle East peace process April 21, 2009.
*99   Biofuels: Myths of the Agrofuels Transition *10/20,21,22,24
A talk by Eric Holt-Gimenez from the Institute for Food and Development
Policy.
*100  Sojourner Truth – Writing the Life of a Legend *10/27,28,29,31
Author Margaret Washington discusses her book “Sojourner Truth’s America”.
*101  Millennial Militarism                       *11/3,4,5,7
Presentation by Michael Geyer, Faculty Director of the University of
Chicago’s Human Rights Program, Cornell University, April 17, 2009.
*102  Democratization in Africa                    *11/10,11,12,14
Festus Mogae, President of Botswana 1998-2008, spoke at Cornell University
April 7, 2009.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Group #73, ITHACA. October 2009 NEWSLETTER.
MEETING Tuesday, October 20, 2009, 7:30 pm at Cornell’s Kahin Center, 640
Stewart Ave. Info: 273-3009.
>> Can’t be at the whole meeting? Come early or late, sign even a single
card!
AGENDA: – Write letters on Urgent Action cases, cards, petitions:
signatures are powerful!

- Plans for fundraiser. It’ll be November 21 at Wetherbees’; we need to
write the invitation letter, and then gather to put letters in envelopes.

- Improving our outreach and communications: a visitor from Ithaca College
has suggestions.

- Reports and updates on campaigns; plans for the future.
NEXT MONTH’S MEETING: Tues. November 17, 2009 at the Kahin Center.

Always the third Tuesday at 7:30.

It will be at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave. For more information, contact Wayles Browne at 607-273-3009.

As always, we will be meeting at the Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave starting at 7:30pm.  Look forward to see you!

The monthly AI in Ithaca meeting is this Tuesday, July 15 at 7:30pm.  Hope everyone can attend!

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Group #73, ITHACA. June 2008 MEETING
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 7:30 pm at Cornell’s Kahin Center, 640 Stewart
Ave. Info: 273-3009.
>> Can’t be at the whole meeting? Come early or late, sign even a single
card!
AGENDA: – Write letters on Urgent Action cases, cards, petitions:
signatures are powerful!
- Special Focus Case for the Northeast Region of AIUSA: Fathi el-Jahmi of
Libya; other actions from the Northeast Region.
- Reports and updates on campaigns.
NEXT MONTH’S MEETING: Tues. July 15, 2008 at the Kahin Center. Always the
third Tuesday at 7:30.

See accompanying NEWSLETTER for:
- article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- sample letter (filmmaker in Chile arrested)
- cable TV schedule
- events in the area
- in the past month
- out in the world

Events of interest to Amnesty members and subscribers:

1)  3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26 at Lifelong, 119 W. Court St., Ithaca:
commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
This day was established in 2005 by the UN to remember millions of
European Jews, Roma, gays and lesbians, and other minority
populations exterminated under the Nazis during World War II.
There will be a short memorial program, then the film ³Sophie Scholl:
The Final Days² (about brave students resisting Hitler), followed by
a discussion of how we as individuals, working within our social
networks, can strive to prevent future acts of genocide.
Donations will be accepted to support the scholarship program for
Arab and Jewish Israeli children, kindergarten to seventh grade. The
children attend the bi-lingual, bi-cultural Neve Shalom/Wahat
al-Salam primary school. Info: Brian Eden of Kol Haverim,
action@kolhaverim.net

2) Sun. Jan. 27, 4 pm in Sage Chapel, Cornell: Ben Chaney speaks on
“Give Truth a Chance.” Mr. Chaney is the brother of one of the three
civil rights workers murdered June 21, 1964 in Mississippi (James
Earl Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman).
Theoir bodies were found forty-four days later. One of the
perpetrators was tried and convicted–41 years afterward.
Music by the Chosen Generation Gospel Choir and the Cornell Jazz Ensemble.

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Next Amnesty group newsletter: week of Feb. 11.
Next Amnesty group meeting: Tue., Feb. 19, 7:30 pm at 640 Stewart
Ave. All welcome.