{"id":889,"date":"2014-11-29T23:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T07:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=889"},"modified":"2014-11-29T23:29:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T07:29:20","slug":"no-dec-meeting-join-us-for-our-write-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"No Dec. Meeting, Join Us for Our Write-a-thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No December meeting (although we do have a new meeting place at the AFSC \u00a0office in the U District starting in January!). Join us instead for our annual <strong>write-a-thon<\/strong> on<strong> Sunday, December 7, 2014 from 4- 7 pm<\/strong> at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.victrolacoffee.com\/content\/cafes\/coffee-and-art-on-15th\"><strong>Victrola Coffee and Art<\/strong><\/a>, 411 15th St E, Seattle, in the cafe&#8217;s meeting room.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l6a4tDlfW1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every year, around Human Rights Day on 10 December, hundreds of thousands of people around the world send a message to someone they&#8217;ve never met. Letter writing has always been at the core of Amnesty&#8217;s work, and 53 years of human rights activism show that letters really do have the power to change lives.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s cases include prisoners of conscience from China, Occupied Palestinian Territories and Saudi Arabia; justice for a father whose two sons were shot to death in Brazil, victims of the 1984 gas leak and continuing environmental damage in Bhopal, India; and for women and girls who miscarry in El Salvador sentenced for homicide; a man sentenced to death in Nigeria following a confession due to torture; justice for Chelsea Manning, survivors of torture by the Chicago police \u00a0and firearms victims in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about AI&#8217;s write-a-thon \u00a0at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/write.amnestyusa.org\/\">http:\/\/write.amnestyusa.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Victrola Coffee and Art:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.victrolacoffee.com\/content\/cafes\/coffee-and-art-on-15th\">http:\/\/www.victrolacoffee.com\/content\/cafes\/coffee-and-art-on-15th<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Event Facebook page:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/809418059104584\/\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/809418059104584\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No December meeting (although we do have a new meeting place at the AFSC \u00a0office in the U District starting in January!). Join us instead for our annual write-a-thon on Sunday, December 7, 2014 from 4- 7 pm at\u00a0Victrola Coffee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=889\">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":[3,12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889"}],"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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}