This weeks topic is U.S. schools and human rights in education. Since this is a new topic for Amnesty, we'll just be discussing how we might get involved in the future. The action we'll be writing instead is on behalf of a deathrow inmate who is now presumed innocent and is going
to have a re-trial.

We'll also have officer elections for next year, so come out and discuss the future of our organization!

Former Street boy from Kenya and Documentary Screening
TUESDAY, APRIL 10
7:30 p.m.
SLC 248

International Student Life, Anthropology Society, and Amnesty International are teaming up for this event! Michael Mungai, a former street boy from Kenya, will be coming to screen a documentary about growing up in Kenya amidst all the struggles of a homeless child. There will be a reception beforehand with food a drinks provided, and then the screening, and then time for discussion!

Left Behind is a 34-minute documentary that reveals the devastating effects of AIDS on Kenya's children by exploring the lives of HIV-positive orphans at Nyumbani Children's Home; why the virus spreads in the poverty-ridden slum of Kibera; and the struggle for survival of homeless children in nearby Dagoretti who lost their parents to AIDS.

Through the eyes and voices of the children themselves, as well as prostitutes, slum dwellers and those infected with HIV, Left Behind dramatically exposes the enormity of the challenge that faces all those who seek to help the victims and prevent the collapse of a continent.

Check out www.leftbehindfilm.com for more information or simply search more on "Michael Mungai." He has now come to the United States and lives in Philadelphia, attending classes at St. Joseph's University. He is also involved in other projects and started an NGO
working with AIDS orphans in Kenya (www.dagoretti4kids.org).

This week we will have our regular meeting and be advertising for the Battle Against Poverty concert!

The Battle Against Poverty, a battle of local bands and rap artists to raise awareness of poverty in Athens, will be April 7th at Legion Field and is FREE! See http://www.battleagainstpoverty.com for more details.

A message from James, who will be leading our meeting on 04/03 in SLC 267:

We will be talking about racial profiling, one of the few domestic issues that Amnesty USA works on. We will be writing our senators asking them to support Senate Bill 2138 to make racial profiling illegal and to create a process to investigate victims' complaints. In addition to more well-known biases, we'll discuss the newer occurrence of profiling people of Middle Eastern descent since September 11.

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!