Local Amnesty chapter active in supporting human rights
Now in its seventh year, St. Augustine’s Amnesty International local group meets monthly to support human rights throughout the world.
Recent activities include letter writing to free prisoners of conscience, a candlelight vigil for victims of torture, lobbying to restore the right of habeas corpus, and programs by Rufus Pennington, a pro bono attorney working with Guantanamo detainees, and Dr. Burton Lee, physician to former President George H. W. Bush, an outspoken critic of torture.
Current issues include the crisis in Darfur, violence against women, the protection of human rights workers, extraordinary rendition, cluster bombs, secret prisons, human trafficking and conditions at the detention center at Guantanamo.
Meetings are held on the last Monday of every month at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of St. Augustine. For information about Amnesty International, log on to www.amnestyusa.org, or call Cynthia McAuliffe at 823-1720. Everyone is welcome.
The next meeting will be held on at 7 p.m. Monday, July 30, at the UU Fellowship, A1A South, 3/4 mile south of Route 312. If you would like to be included on the mailing list, please call me at (904) 460-1190 after Aug. 10. I am the group’s coordinator.
Jo Anne Engelbert
St. Augustine
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