Save the date for our group's annual Wine and Cheese Party.

Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006

2 to 5 p.m.
...savory canapés, vegetarian treats...
at the home of Andrea and Pete Wetherbee
604 Highland Road, Ithaca

All local group and national Amnesty International members will get an invitation in the mail in September. If you are not a member, but would like to get an invitation please contact Charlotte Acharya at 227-3471, or just show up to the event.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Group #73, ITHACA. August 2006 NEWSLETTER.
MEETING: Tuesday, August 15, 2006, 7:30 pm, Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave., Cornell West Campus. (Take driveway downhill to building with covered entranceway, in front door. Parking allowed evenings.) 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!

• Summer Postcard Action – we got some cards donated to us!
• Plans for our group’s annual fundraiser: send out invitation letters in August, hold the party Sept. 17 at Wetherbees’.
• We have a new Action File (prisoner case in Eritrea); come hear the details.
• Reports and updates on campaigns. Central African Regional Network = CAFRAN: report on the Hissène Habré case (Chad).

NEXT MONTH’S MEETING: Tues. Sept. 19, 2006, 7:30, same place. Always the 3rd Tuesday. (Bring a new member!)

Amnesty relies on the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 30 articles with rights all should have everywhere. An article for August: Art. 30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.