This is our National Week of Student Action on Darfur! We kicked off the week with tabling around campus and collected a bunch of signatures to pressure both the US Congress and China.

The other events this week (notice the time change of our Tuesday meeting):

Tuesday March 27
"Darfur Awareness: Lecture and Action"
Discussion of past genocide, the current situation in Darfur, and
letter writing campaign to support humanitarian action. Special guest
drumming performance by Athens group!
6:30pm, SLC 267

Thursday March 29
"Darfur Documentary Screening"
Sponsored by Amnesty International and International Student Life,
with question and answer period following.
7:30pm, SLC 101

We'll also be tabling at the Patchwork of Cultures event in the Brumby Rotunda on Thursday from 4:30-7:30pm. If you can't make it to any events, sign the petition here .

After a hopefully relaxing spring break, we'll be returning to our regular meeting- Tuesday at 6pm in SLC 267- with an equally relaxing letter writing pizza party! We'll write an Urgent Action for a prisoner of conscious and discuss human rights in the news. We'll also be signing up to help with the National Week of Student Action on Darfur and planning our upcoming trip to the Annual General Meeting in Milwaukee.

Once again, everyone is welcome to join us for FREE FOOD and in writing a few letters in support of human rights around the world!

These are some new pictures from the Activities Fair in January sent in by our V.P. James Lee. If you have any UGA Amnesty related pictures, please send them to samir@uga.edu.

Congratulations on a great success! A few weeks ago we wrote letters in support of Environmental activist Andrei Zatoka, who had been imprisoned for his peaceful work. He was just released!! This is just one case among many others that illustrates how your pressure on governments to observe human rights really works!

This Tuesday, March 6, at 6:00pm in Room 267, Harita will be presenting on the Stop Violence Against Women Campaign (SVAW). We'll be focusing on domestic violence, killings of women Ciudad Juarez Mexico, and women in armed conflict. Join us to learn more about SVAW, hear a speaker from a local women's shelter, learn more about the situations around the world, and participate in an action! For more info, check out the Amnesty SVAW websites and the 2006 issue report.

IMPORTANT AGM INFO! Contact Tiffany (tiffh@mindspring.com ) if you still want to the Annual General Meeting in Milwaukee. We will be purchasing plane tickets and finalizing hotel reservations early this week.