On September 29th, Amnesty Arizona with have its statewide meeting on the West Campus of Arizona State University from 10AM to 4PM.

The morning will be devoted largely to training on making visit to members of Congress built around Amnesty’s priority in the “Denounce Torture” campaign. Kevin Spidel, Amnesty’s staff person for the campaign and Julissa Gomez, Amnesty’s field organizer from the regional office will facilitate.

The afternoon will focus on event planning. Our focus is Amnesty’s report - Maze of Injustice: The failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA. Alisa Roadcup, Arizona’s Stop Violence Against Women Campaign Coordinator will coordinate the activity. We will have a guest talk about the issues in the report and participate together in a hands-on project.

Lunch will be devoted to short vignettes on activities of interest - Banned Books Week, Child Soldiers, Iraqi and Sudanese refugees, and update on Eritrea, concert tours, the regional conference and anything else that you would like to learn about.

The day will end with groups planning together and collaboratively with other groups with plans for the upcoming semester.

More details as they develop. Stay tuned.

Cheers,
Joe Watkins
Area Coordinator, Amnesty International, USA