human rights, freeing prisoners of conscience, denounce torture, ending abuses of the "war on terror", abolishing the death penalty, Stop Violence Against Women, Corporate Action Network,immigrant and refugee rights, LGBT Rights, the Seattle Human Rights Film Festival
Seattle Human Rights Film Festival,Hotel Rwanda, Dead Man Walking, Divided We Fall, Total Denial, Border Echoes, Finding Dawn, Motherland Afghanistan, Darfur Diaries, Raised to Be Heroes, Conscientious Objector, Seeing Proof, The Seeker, Road to Guantanamo
Television
Independent Lens
Books
In Our Own Best Interests, Tainted Legacy - William Schultz; The Blindfold's Eye - Sister Diana Ortiz; Darfur Diaries - Jen Marlowe; An Ordinary Man - Paul Rusesabagina; Victor: An Unfinished Song - Joan Jara; The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk - Paladen Gyatso; Dead Man Walking, The Death of Innocence - Sister Helen Prejean; Journey of Hope - Bill Pelke
Heroes
Paul Benenson, Ginetta Sagan, Aung San Suu Kyi,Ken Saro-Wiwa, Digna Ochoa, Sister Diana Ortiz, Paul Ruseabagina, Paladen Gyatso, Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, Shi Tao,Ngawang Phulchung
Larry Ebersole Reads Shi Tao's Poem "June"
Shi Tao - in prison for sending an email
Maze of Injustice - Stop Violence Against Native American Women
About me: This is the MySpace page for Amnesty International USA Group 4 in Seattle, Washington. We meet monthly, at 6:30 pm, on the first Tuesday of the month in the den at the Mosaic Coffee House, 4401 2nd Ave. NE, Seattle
Our meetings are free and open to the public. Feel free to contact us first, or just show up. We are always happy to have new members!
For more information about our meetings, local listservs, or the events on our calendar below, see the events page on our main website:
Founded in London in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section of Amnesty International.
Other Amnesty International Groups:
Not in Seattle? A high school or college student? Check out AI Washington, AIUSA's local and student group listings, or AI's links if you're in another country, to find a local group near you, or a group at your school, or find out how to reach your nearest office for help in starting one!
Trivia Note:
Our current listed "birthday" is for Amnesty International's founding meeting. We're still trying to track down the our own founding date!
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone interested in human rights! If you live in Seattle, come to a meeting or check out our events.
Note on political candidates or parties:
Due both to the need for Amnesty International's independendence in speaking out on human rights and our US tax exempt status, we cannot add any political party or candidate friends.
JoJo Tran, Asylum Seeker & Group 4 Member Interviewed by Mike McCormick on KEXP (see how you can help at www.savejojo.com)
Seattle Human Rights Film Festival on Seattle IAM
WOZA (Women of Zimbabwe Arise)& the People's Congress
Troy Davis about to be killed by the state of Georgia
Dear Friends...Please read the Updated Reports on Bat Nha Violence @ http://lnk.ms/2H1R9. Help support this cause with your friendship, prayers, and letters.
“The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. "Carl Jung"
Just passing by to leave you my love dear friend! Raven
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Thank you as always for your beautiful comments and for remembering me even while I’m away. I’m very glad to have every one of you in my list as my friends. It’s always wonderful to have good friends in so many different and diverse places, even if we could never meet in person.
I wish, as you go through the trail of a new week, light will be always there to guide you, even when it’s dark, your path will be smooth and without obstacles, and danger will keep out of your way. Moreover, I wish it will be a journey to remember.
"I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one's own family or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace."
H. H. the Dalai Lama
My friend, I hope your week goes good and full of happiness.
Some of you are asking why I don't go online as frequently as I used to and the answer is I've been very busy spreading our word for peace and humanity.
I decided some time ago that when we work only for ourselves and for our closest ones, although it is a noble effort, it is only what we're "supposed" to do.
Sometimes along the way, we might find ourselves caught in a routine where we lose the song and beauty that life is made of.
By becoming part of a broader effort for a better society, we know in our hearts that our lives have its intended meaning, that we're not just surviving anymore. In the wise words of Mother Theresa, "We can do no great things; only small things with great love". But these small things done with great love can definitely make a big difference for everyone.
"Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living."
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.
I've been away in a trip for a few days, thank you for remembering me.
