hi there, I'm Kimmy Coulombe, the Special Focus Case Coordinator for the Northeast Region. At the Northeast Regional Conference on Saturday there will be two...
here is an e-mail that I received last week: Prisoner Yuri Bandazheuski Placed to Hospital 11:54, 09/11/2004 Convict Professor Yuri Bandazheuski was placed to...
hi, It was so nice meeting some of you at the conference Saturday (and Sunday). I hope that those of you who attended the SFC workshop walked away with a...
Hi, my name is Sadie and I'm the President of our AI chapter in Warwick HS, NY. Would it be possible for the VP, (courtelli@...) to be added to the yahoo...
Dear All, We're happy to add anyone from your groups to the Bandazhevsky listserv. If you would like to add a person to the list, please send a separate email ...
Hey Everyone, The Sunday Globe has a decent article on the aftermath of Chernobyl in Belarus today, Lukashenka's response to the pollution, and a mention of...
Eleni Lampadarios
elampada@...
Nov 21, 2004 3:10 pm
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Another article on the continued effects of Chernobyl has been published by the Associated Press. It is different from the Boston Globe article and can be...
Here is the Associated Press article from the Washington Post. Activists: Chernobyl Radiation Lingers By MARA D. BELLABY The Associated Press Saturday,...
Local Group 569 (Sherborn, MA) recently protested for Yury and they were kind enough to send me a picture. I have uploaded it to the Photos section of the...
For those of you who are not members of Yahoo!, I am sending the picture of Group 569 through email. A description of the Gagging on Repression Action can be...
Chelmsford High School is working hard to generate publicity for Yury! Details on how you can complete the Gaggin On Repression Photo Action are on page 17 of...
Each year during the winter holidays, Amnesty International asks friends and members to send messages of support to prisoners and human rights defenders around...
Dear NE Activists, If your group is planning any events/activities please let the Northeast Regional Office know! We will be more than happy to post your...
cgabriel@...
Dec 7, 2004 7:20 pm
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hi, I hope you all had a great Human Rights Day and your events were a smash! If any of you did anything related to the SFC please let us all know. Remember...
We had a great human rights week. We tabled all week and handed out letter writing materials for the SFC (and gathered funds and signatures for the stop...
jmci0422@...
Dec 13, 2004 3:43 pm
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we also had a table at lunches to raise awareness and raise some money....we had 4 bottles with the names and pictures of some prissoners of conscience, ...
my group had petitions at lunch. We also took pictures of people gagged with the sign. We are trying to get our state rep. to participate in the petition as...
Good work, Adrian. We would love to receive copies of your "gagged" photos here at the Casework Office. (This goes for all other groups taking this action,...
For the holiday card writing thing, are we supposed to have pre made cards .. i remember last year we used these cards that had a simple sentence printed on...
We encourage people to use their own holiday cards and include their own messages of support. This way the prisoners and human rights defenders receive a...
For the holiday card action, you can use pre-made cards, or you and your group can make and write simple cards which is more fun, more prolific (well, sort ...
What my group is doing is cutting small rectangles of bright paper and folding them in half to make little cards. Then we are setting up a table with...
Nazanin Bagherzadeh
nabagherzadeh@...
Dec 15, 2004 1:32 am
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our group has been trying to find a list of potential card recipients by language. Does anyone know how we can do that? We're interested in Spanish, French,...
manachick2@...
Dec 15, 2004 2:32 am
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hi marianna, we do have the holiday card action in spanish and i believe in french as well. Cynthia Gabriel Membership Program Coordinator Amnesty...
cgabriel@...
Dec 15, 2004 4:06 pm
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that's similar to what my group did. we wrote letters then make cards with simple little drawings and things i think that they enjoyed doing it, and the...
meg ashur
coldslit@...
Dec 16, 2004 10:49 pm
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Heya, I realize that this is a bit after the fact, but GHS had a great human rights week, only we did ours a week early! We couldn't schedule anything the...
Hey guys- I realize this is a little bit late too, but for Human Rights Day we got over 250 signed letters to free Yury that we're planning to send out. We...
Hi everyone! We made T-Shirts and passed out copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was successful and we even put a morning announcement up...
My group will be working on the holiday card action next week. But i haven't done this before. I got cards that say "wishing you the best this holiday season"...