Ledyard High School's Amnesty International Club: MADRE

We decided to support the organization MADRE this year at Jamnesty. They work all over the world to improve women's rights. Check them out at www.madre.org.

Club Description

Amnesty International is a global organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people of all races, genders, sexualities, religions, and nationalities. LHS Amnesty focuses specifically on aiding individuals or groups whose human rights are under attack by writing letters to government officials or other influential persons of power. Outside of written persuasion, the LHS chapter of Amnesty International dedicates itself to making the student population of LHS aware of these injustices and actions that they can take to help those in need. LHS Amnesty is also known for its annual Jamnesty, a rock music competition event which helps raise awareness and funds for a different cause each year.

Quotes

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

"Silence does not signify an absence of response, but rather a response which lacks a critical quality."
-Paulo Fréire

“We make war so that we may live in peace.”
-Aristotle

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
- Thomas Jefferson

“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”
- Winston Churchill

Ledyard High School's Amnesty International Club

March 16, 2010

MADRE

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