Amnesty
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Group 22
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Current News (PDF)
Prisoner of Conscience
Narges Mohammadi
Prisoner of Conscience
Gao Zhisheng
Rights Readers: Human Rights Book Discussion Blog (2005-2015)
Remembering Tiananmen (1989-1999)
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SLAVERY IS NOT HISTORY...YET! Our 2008 entry was Waterboardin' USA (photo at right). We've missed only three parades since 1998. See our Doo-Dah pages for 1998, 1999, 2005 and 2008. See our Facebook page (see sidebar) for pix of our 2011 entry. |
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Welcome to Amnesty International Group 22
in Pasadena, California
Group 22 is one of many local affiliates of Amnesty
International USA, which in turn is the United States national
section
of the worldwide Amnesty
International
movement. Founded in 1961, AI works impartially for the release of all
prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for political
prisoners,
and an end to torture and executions (for further information, see the brief
history and description and the text of the definition
of human rights). Group 22 was established as both a registered student group at
Caltech and a community local group for the Pasadena area.
New members are always welcome!
Simply show up any of our events listed below. Our monthly meetings or
letter-writing sessions are especially good places to start. See the map for directions.
See below. Regular meetings were replaced by virtual online sessions during Covid pandemic.
For further information contact: aigp22@caltech.edu.
AI Group 22 Letter Writing for September will be in-person or online; see below. Book Discussion will be online.
Tuesday, September 10, 7:30-9 pm. If possible, Group 22 Letter-writing will be in-person, outdoors at the Rath al Fresco on the Caltech campus in Pasadena.
Email Group 22 coordinator Kathy for information about attending in-person or a Zoom link if the meeting will be online.
Current Urgent Actions selected for Group 22 Letter Writing
You can always write letters for Urgent Actions on your own: go to
https://www.amnestyusa.org/take-action/urgent-action-network/.
Check the Amnesty USA home page
for current online actions.
Sunday, September 22, 6:30 pm. Human Rights Book Discussion Group
(changed from September 15)
Note: Our August meeting was cancelled, so we decided to postpone discussion of our August selection to the September meeting.
Our August/September selection is "On Java Road: A Novel" by Lawrence Osborne.
Kirkus Review calls it "An atmospheric thriller set in a Hong Kong convulsed by student protests and China's heavy-handed response to them circa 2019".
Kirkus goes on to say,"The book is like a whodunit turned inside out, with what might usually be background - the precisely and evocatively drawn setting, especially - at center and the plot mostly crowding in around the edges. Hong Kong comes fiercely alive on the page."
If you are interested in the book discussion, please contact aigp22@caltech.edu or Group 22 coordinator Kathy in order to receive an invitation to the Zoom session.
Current News Current AI Actions and Campaigns in which we are involved:
Past AI Actions and Campaigns in which we were involved:
Latest news update was sent December 2, 2022.
Update_12-02-2022.pdf
Past Newsletters and Updates
Narges was released from prison on 8 October 2020!
But on 16 November 2021 she was again imprisoned to serve new sentence!
Group 22 began to work on her case in September 2015.
See our Facebook album of our 2016 rally for Narges on April 21 (her birthday).
Group 22 concluded our 5 years of case work with a celebration marking his birthday April 20. (video)
(photo)
Related Information
Other Human Rights Groups in the Pasadena Area
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endorsement of its contents by Amnesty International.