{"id":774,"date":"2013-07-30T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=774"},"modified":"2013-08-02T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T20:54:33","slug":"august-meeting-change-first-monday-august-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"August Meeting Change &#8211; First Monday, August 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our August meeting only, we will be meeting the first <strong>Monday, August 5<\/strong> (instead of Tuesday), <strong>from 6:30 &#8211; 8:30 pm<\/strong> at our usual meeting place,\u00a0at the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaiccoffeehouse.org\/\">Mosaic Coffee House<\/a><\/strong>, 4401 2nd Ave NE. First half hour is letter writing and socializing. Meeting starts at 7 pm.<\/p>\n<p>We will be reviewing June and July advocacy events, including China human rights, Guantanamo letter writing and phone calls to congress, &#8220;Dirty War&#8221; viewing and responses and individuals at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Then we will be planning for the future:<\/p>\n<p>AI&#8217;s Death Penalty Abolition program:<\/p>\n<p>*Group 4 could use a volunteer from the group to be a contact person for AIUSA on ending the the death penalty. Flexible schedule and self designated hours.<\/p>\n<p>*Jen Marlowe and Sister Helen Prejean &#8211; TBA Sept. 21 or early October<\/p>\n<p>*Holly from the Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty will be present and talk about our shared goals for ending the death penalty in Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>Also updates &amp; opportunities for Individuals and Communities at Risk program, Women&#8217;s Human Rights Program and Security with Human Rights Program.<\/p>\n<p>* AI is co-sponsoring on Sept. 11 at Town Hall, 7:30 pm-8:30 pm, &#8220;Indefinite Detention and Human Rights\/Civil Liberties.&#8221; Further details soon.\u00a0Volunteer opportunity for AI information table.<\/p>\n<p>*October &#8211; AIUSA&#8217;s Security with Human Rights will be able to screen &#8220;Dirty Wars.&#8221; Ideas? UW group and others may join us on this. Topics to include: ending killings by military drones and a new report by AIUSA on the issues.<\/p>\n<p>We will be returning to our first Tuesday meeting night for September, when Phil Neff will talk about Justice in Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Mosaic Coffee House<\/strong>\u00a0is a nonprofit coffee house located in Seattle First Church (behind the Dick\u2019s Drive In on 45th Street in the Wallingford Neighborhood). Check for directions, free parking and bus line information at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaiccoffeehouse.org\/directions.html\">http:\/\/www.mosaiccoffeehouse.org\/directions.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our August meeting only, we will be meeting the first Monday, August 5 (instead of Tuesday), from 6:30 &#8211; 8:30 pm at our usual meeting place,\u00a0at the\u00a0Mosaic Coffee House, 4401 2nd Ave NE. First half hour is letter writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16,7,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}