>> 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!
- Reports from the U.S. Social Forum, Detroit, June 22-26: AI’s campaign on maternal mortality in the U.S. (http://www.amnestyusa.org/demand-dignity/page.do?id=1041191); other human rights sessions (pressing U.S. authorities to provide rights guaranteed by international agreements; the U.S.’s upcoming statement before the U.N. Universal Periodic Review). See http://www.upr-info.org/.
- Reports and updates on campaigns; plans for the future.
NEXT MONTH’S MEETING: Tues. Aug. 17, 2010 at the Kahin Center. Always the third Tuesday at 7:30.

Amnesty bases its work on the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 30 articles with rights we all deserve everywhere. An article for July: Art. 25. (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. – See all 30 at http://www.ithacaamnesty.org/?page_id=33.