Group 37 December Meeting

Dec 11, Sunday Write-a-thon to commemorate Human Rights Day:   Time will be roughly 1 – 4 PM. Also at First Congregational.  We will provide stamps, post cards, envelopes and paper for writing.

Everyone is welcome, and refreshments will be provided.

First Congregational Church of Minnesota UCC
500 8th Ave SE
Minneapolis MN 55414-1910

Find a map and directions at the Google Place Page

For Twin Cities Amnesty International information; call 763-571-7696 or 651-636-0726.

We have a new case assignment.

PHILIPPINES - Indigenous rights activist James Balao was abducted on 17 September 2008 by armed men, who told witnesses they were police, in the northern city of Baguio. 

A court has ordered the authorities to reveal where he is, and do no further harm to him, but has not authorized his family to look for him in places of detention. We call on the authorities to make his whereabouts public, and release him immediately and unconditionally, unless he is promptly charged with a recognizably criminal offense, as he appears to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely forthe peaceful exercise of his right to freedom of expression and association.