Take Action with Amnesty International Online

Since we did not make it to the computer lab during our meeting today, here is the link to the page on the Amnesty website where you can go to sign their appeals for action.

Ideas for AI Awareness Week

Here are some of the ideas we had for our upcoming AI awareness week. Please email me any ideas that were left out at ledyardai@gmail.com.

• Trivia questions for morning meetings, whichever morning meeting answers the most questions correctly out of each class gets a reward, the overall winner will get a pizza party
• Announcements during morning meeting each day or posters around school about different causes AI has helped
• Have everyone wear their Amnesty shirts at the end of the week on April 27th

Meeting

We will have a meeting this coming activity period, Feburary 29th, in room 211.

Kony 2012

The details of our Invisible Children screening for this spring are still being worked out...

But for now check out IC's new spring tour website specifically for Kony 2012.

Jamnesty Cause

As you know, we have decided to focus on Amnesty International for this year's Jamnesty. Here is a video celebrating the organization's 50th anniversary.

Write for Rights Update

Thank you to everyone who participated in Write for Rights! We were able to send 27 letters to 10 different countries to help end human rights abuses. You can still view cases of human rights abuses and write to help try to protect the people being affected anytime on your own.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Don't forget there is a meeting tomorrow in room 211.

Reminder...

We will have a meeting during activity period tomorrow. Hope to see you there!

T-Shirt Update

Happy end of the semester! Hopefully your exams went well.

We will begin selling t-shirts again in the next few weeks during lunch. Remember to continue to promote our shirts!

Jabbar Savalan Freed

Jabbar Savalan has received a presidential pardon as a result of Amnesty International's Write for Rights campaign. He was imprisoned by the Azerbaijani government for possession of marijuana, when just a day earlier, he called for Arab Spring inspired protests against the government on Facebook. Check out the article below for more information:
http://tinyurl.com/7n92vvh

AI Club Update

With our next meeting a while away, we just wanted to update you all on what we have been thinking about in terms of current and future projects.

• T-Shirt Sales: We are going to start t-shirt sales again sometime after finals. Also, if you know of any events coming up where we might be able to sell shirts, let Mr. Jannke, Mr. Murphy, Jenna or I know.
• Jamnesty: Jamnesty is scheduled for April 27th. We are going back to the basics, and will most likely be donating our proceeds to Amnesty International as they celebrated their 50th anniversary this past year. Please think about other possible causes and ideas that would improve the event--we are open to suggestions!
• 30 Hour Famine: Some of you expressed interest in participating in the famine, and I do not think we will not be able to do it with our Amnesty Club because it is based with a religious organization. However, I am wondering how many would still be interested if we did an event out of school. If you are, please let me (Brenna) know.

See you on January 25th!

From the World Food Programme...

You can feed a hungry school child one meal through the World Food Programme, the group behind Freerice, by taking this five question quiz about hunger:

http://quiz.wfp.org/