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May 14th - New Ways of Taking Action for Amnesty. An introduction
to Amnesty for new members and a tour of how to get more from Amnesty
online. The evening will include
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Group news Programme of events |
Latest news Group newsletter
Burma Petition Event
Hundreds of people signed and our wall and many were photographed showing their support. We now hope to deliver the petition to the Burmese embassy in London. Photos of the day are on our Facebook page or available as a slideshow 2011 Greetings Card Campaign
Schools Speakers
Since attending the training
day in June we have been to four schools, colleges and universities to
cover areas such as:
If you would like more details please e-mail us or see www.amnesty.org.uk/speakers. Zarganar
In March we will be holding a street event in Cardiff, asking people to support the release of the remaining prisoners of conscience in Burma. Troy Davis
Elizabeth Jenkins of the Amnesty Cardiff Group wrote very recently to Troy’s family, through the Amnesty website, expressing sympathy for them at this time; Elizabeth received eight letters from Troy over years of campaigning. Shortly before his execution
Troy told AI USA:
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On
Saturday 24th March volunteers from the Cardiff Amnesty Group, university
and local schools groups joined forces to call for the release of Burma's
political prisoners. We did this by asking the public to "Give Us
a Hand" - literally by drawing around their hand and signing our
petition wall.
On
28 November a number of our group met in Chapter to send cards to prisoners
and human rights defenders as part of Amnesty's annual Greetings Card
Campaign. Despite the small number we managed to send nearly 50 cards.
The
Amnesty Cardiff Group currently has two schools speakers who go into schools
and colleges to talk about Amnesty and human rights.. 
In
our October meeting we showed the film "This Prison Where I Live",
about Burmese comedian Zarganar who was serving a 35 year prison sentence
for criticising the Burmese government. Two days later we heard that he
was released (under strict conditions) along with around 120 other political
prisoners, however hundreds more remain in prison.
On
21 September 2011 Troy Davis was executed by the US State of Georgia.
The execution went ahead despite a high-profile “Too Much Doubt”
campaign, with over one million people worldwide signing a petition to
the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles calling for them to intervene
to prevent the execution. Amnesty International and other campaigners
had held vigils around the world as the execution approached, including
outside the US embassy in London.