Join Amnesty Group 137 for a virtual meeting on the topic of “Free Expression and the Beijing Olympics” with guest speakers Carolyn Nash, Asia Advocacy Director for Amnesty International USA, and Rowan Sockwell, AIUSA China Fellow. A Q&A will follow and we’ll also do online urgent actions related to the topic.  You can register for the meeting here – we’ll send Zoom info to all registrants prior to the meeting.

Join us on Saturday, December 4^th, 2 pm, at Los Reyes Bar and Grill, 2496 Broadway in Golden Hill (map), for our annual Write For Rights and Holiday Card Action event to commemorate  Human Rights Day (December 10^th). Every year in December, Amnesty International holds its Write for Rights action, the world’s biggest human rights event, where hundreds of thousands of people around the world gather together to send letters to authorities and cards of hope on behalf of people they’ve never met.  Our letters help convince government officials to release people imprisoned for expressing their opinion, to stop torture, to commute death sentences, and to end other human rights abuses. Our holiday cards provide hope and badly needed emotional support for people experiencing serious human rights abuses.  We will provide letterheads, cards, envelopes, stamps, pens, quesadillas and drinks!  Look for our Amnesty sign in the covered outdoor seating area.

Group 137 will once again be meeting at Los Reyes Bar and Grill, 2496 Broadway in Golden Hill at the corner of Broadway and 25th to write letters on urgent human rights actions.  Los Reyes has a covered outdoor eating area with open sides, so look for us there–we’ll have an Amnesty International sign on the table to help you find us.  We’ll again be providing quesadillas and beverages for those in attendance.  Note that we’re meeting an hour earlier than last time!

Join us for our first in-person group meeting in a year and a half on Saturday, Oct 30th, 3 pm, at Los Reyes Bar and Grill, 2496 Broadway in Golden Hill at the corner of Broadway and 25th.  Los Reyes has a covered outdoor eating area with open sides, so look for us there–we’ll have an Amnesty International sign on the table to help you find us.  We’ll also have urgent actions, letterheads, pens, etc, so we can write letters on urgent human rights issues just like the good old days! To celebrate this milestone, we’ll be providing quesadillas and beverages for those in attendance.

Join us for our August virtual meeting on Wednesday August 18th at 6 pm (note the day and time change from our usual meeting time).  We will welcome special guest speaker, Texas legislator Carl O. Sherman, to discuss the latest in voter suppression efforts in Texas and how we can help protect voting rights.  Click here to register for the meeting — we will send Zoom info to all registrants prior to the event.

DISCLAIMER: Amnesty International does not advocate for or against political parties or candidates nor does it take a position on political systems, including voting.  Because of this, the event is being organized by individuals and is not an official Amnesty group event.

Join us for our next monthly virtual meeting, on Monday, July 12^th, at 7:00 pm.  We will welcome special guest speaker, SDSU political science professor, Dr. Farid Abdel-Nour, who will explore the wider significance of the evictions and protests in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem in a presentation titled “What Sheikh Jarrah Symbolizes”, and then take questions from attendees.  You can register here for the meeting–we’ll send Zoom info to all registrants prior to the meeting.

We will hold our June meeting on the second Monday of the month, June 14^th, 7:30 pm, with a focus on the Chinese government’s campaign of repression against the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group in the Xinjiang region of China.  Steve Pieragastini, AIUSA China country specialist and East Asian history lecturer at Whittier College, will give a presentation titled “Oppression of Uyghurs and Other Groups in Xinjiang and Amnesty International’s Response.” Please note that the meeting will begin at 7:30 pm, 30 minutes later than usual .  You can register for the meeting here.  We’ll send Zoom details to registrants prior to the meeting.

Join us Monday, May 10, at 7:00 pm. for our monthly (virtual) meeting. This month we will get an update on asylum issues at the U.S. Mexico border from Bardis Vakili, Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties.

Please register here.  A Zoom link will be emailed on the day of the meeting.

Amnesty Group 137′s April meeting will be held on THURSDAY, April 15, 6:30 pm (please note change in day of week and start time).  San Diego City Councilmember Monica Montgomery Steppe will speak with us about racial equity in San Diego.  Register here for the meeting.  Zoom info will be sent to all registrants prior to the meeting.

Our virtual meeting on Monday, Feb 8th, 7 pm, will focus on reproductive rights, and we’ll send Zoom info to the folks who register, which you can do here.  Our guest speaker will be Alice Dahle, chair of Amnesty International USA’s Women’s Human Rights Coordination Group, who will discuss the status of reproductive rights in the US and beyond and then take our questions.  We’ll also watch a short video and do online actions.