Amnesty International USA Group 4 of Seattle

Happy New Year to all of our fellow activists! The first Group 4 Amnesty Meeting of 2025 will be held on Tuesday, January 21st, at the University Friends Service Committee U District offices at 4001 9th Avenue NE from 7:00 – 8:00PM. We’d love to see you. For a map and street view go to: https://goo.gl/maps/ZjhAes5zWgE2.

We will also have a hybrid virtual option for those who cannot make it in person! For information on attending the meeting via zoom, please email amnestygroup4@gmail.com.

On the agenda:

• Abolishing the death penalty campaign updates
• Updates + action on our adopted case commitment, Jose Rubén Zamora
• Amnesty International’s response to the second Trump presidency and discussing ways in which Group 4 can take action

We hope to see you there!

The December Group 4 Amnesty Meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 17th, at the University Friends Service Committee U District offices at 4001 9th Avenue NE from 7:00 – 8:00PM. We’d love to see you. For a map and street view go to: https://goo.gl/maps/ZjhAes5zWgE2.

We will also have a hybrid virtual option for those who cannot make it in person! For information on attending the meeting via zoom, please email amnestygroup4@gmail.com.

On the agenda:

• Write for Rights event updates
• Screening of the short documentary “Fighting to Live, While Waiting to Die” about federal death row prisoner Billie Allen. AIUSA is using his case as a platform to call for President Biden to commute the sentences of prisoners in federal and military death rows before January 20th. You can also take action on Billie Allen’s case here!
• Updates on our case commitment

You may have noticed that this month’s meeting is once again on the third Tuesday of the month, as opposed to the first. Given how well shifting the meeting worked the last three months, our group has elected to keep the change in schedules for the foreseeable future. Please get in touch if you have any comments or questions about our meeting schedules!

We hope to see you there!

This Saturday (December 7th) we will be having Write for Rights, our annual letter-writing campaign, at the Greenwood Chocolati Cafe starting at 1pm. Case sheets, sample letters, pens, paper, and envelopes will be provided–just bring yourself and the means to buy hot chocolate, should you want it! The event will likely last a couple of hours, so feel free to drop by even if you can’t make it exactly at 1pm.

Chocolati is located at 8319 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle WA 98103 (at the corner of N 84th St. and Greenwood Ave N). For a map and street view, visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/uTRkiqGBuPXy2bMC6.

Can’t make it? You can still participate! Visit Write for Rights page on AIUSA’s website for more details on writing letters from home.

If you have any questions, you can email amnestygroup4@gmail.com!

The November Group 4 Amnesty Meeting will be held on November 19th (today!) at the University Friends Service Committee U District offices at 4001 9th Avenue NE from 7:00 – 8:00PM. We’d love to see you. For a map and street view go to: https://goo.gl/maps/ZjhAes5zWgE2

We will also have a hybrid virtual option for those who cannot make it in person! For information on attending the meeting via zoom, please email amnestygroup4@gmail.com.

On the agenda:

• Death penalty updates–including a special visit by Terrie Rodello, who is on a working group within AIUSA that is focused on the federal death penalty. She will be sharing some actions we are urging everyone to take, to ask President Biden to commute the sentences of all the federal death row inmates before he leaves office.
• December Write for Rights event
• Updates to the our new long-term case commitment
• Actions we need to take before the new US government administration comes in mid-January

All are welcome! We hope to see you there!

The September Monthly Group 4 Amnesty Meeting will be held on September 17th (today!) at the at the University Friends Service Committee U District offices at 4001 9th Avenue NE from 7:00 – 8:00PM. We’d love to see you. For a map and street view go to: https://goo.gl/maps/ZjhAes5zWgE2

We will also have a hybrid virtual option for those who cannot make it in person! For information on attending the meeting via zoom, please email amnestygroup4@gmail.com.

On the agenda:

• Urgent Actions updates
• Our new case commitment
• Banned Books Week
• Death Penalty updates
• Fall Regional Conference

All are welcome! We hope to see you there!

Due to varying schedule conflicts, for the next three months Amnesty Group 4 will be meeting on the third Tuesday of the month (as opposed to the typical first Tuesday of the month). This means that our September meeting will be held on September 17th!

Meetings will still be held at 7pm. We are still waiting to hear if the University Friends Meeting House is still available for in-person meetings at this time; if not, the meetings will be on zoom only for the next three months. Stay tuned for more details about this, and as always, contact amnestygroup4@gmail.com for more information about on attending the meeting via zoom. We hope to see you there!

The annual Group 4 picnic will be held this upcoming Saturday, August 17, starting around 1 pm. We’ll meet at our usual spot on the NW side of Green Lake park, between the Bathhouse Theater and the tennis courts. If you’re driving, there’s a parking lot at W Green Lake Dr N and Stone Ave N. Click here for the Google Maps view!

Please bring some food to share (plates and utensils will be provided). Camp chairs or picnic blankets would also be more than welcome!

In the case of inclement weather, the picnic will be canceled. Feel free to email amnestygroup4@gmail.com if you have any questions!

This is just a reminder that we will NOT have our usual monthly meeting on Tuesday, August 6th. In lieu of a meeting, we’ll instead be having our mostly-annual picnic at Green Lake Park on August 17th. Stay tuned for more details!

Our Amnesty International neighbors to the north hosted an online screening of Voices Across the Divide, a documentary that explores the Israeli occupation of Palestine, last week! You can watch the full video of the documentary here, as well as the Q&A with the director, Alice Rothchild, that followed the screening.

Interested in learning more about the current human rights abuses taking place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories? Visit AIUSA’s webpage dedicated to these issues for educational resources as well as tools for taking action!

Come to our next meeting on Tuesday, July 2nd, at the University Friends Service Committee U District offices at 4001 9th Avenue NE from 7:00 – 8:00PM. We’d love to see you. For a map and street view go to: https://goo.gl/maps/ZjhAes5zWgE2

For information on attending the meeting via zoom, please email amnestygroup4@gmail.com.

On this month’s agenda:

• Updates on our case commitment application
• Summer postcard action
• Documentary film screening hosting by our friends in the Bellingham Amnesty International group
• Fall Western Regional Conference
• Figuring out a date for our annual summer picnic in lieu of an August meeting

All are welcome!