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Banned Books & Human Rights Webinar. Banned Books Week is an annual event that celebrates the freedom to read. Our webinar will affirm the right of authors, poets and journalists to write and publish without interference from government and other authorities. We will honor brave writers who promote human rights through their words and their activism. Join us to hear their stories. Register here. Share the link with friends, students, librarians: tinyurl.com/bannedbook2020

Human Rights Book Club We will meet online on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7 PM. The first meeting will be on Thurs. October 15th at 7PM. We will discuss the book Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (read book, read ebook, listen to it as audiobook). Then on Thursday November 19th we will discuss the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity Worldwide for Women by Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Register here.  A Zoom link will be sent the week of the book club meeting!  Share the link with other book lovers tinyurl.com/humanrightsbookclub 

  

RACIAL JUSTICE AND POLICING

We stand against all dehumanizing acts of violence by police and stand for justice for the Black community. The too long list of black Americans murdered in this country shows a blatant disregard by those in law enforcement and the judicial system for the rights, dignity, and lives of Black Americans.

Sacramento County Policing: immigration activists and lawyers chronicle horrific treatment after protesting at governor's residence. Read the account here. 

Police violence research:

#1   Widespread Police Violence against Demonstrators for Black Lives (Sacramento is on the map for this report)

#2  The World is Watching: Mass Violations by U.S. Police of Black Lives Matter Protesters' Rights    (pages 30-60 contain personal interviews with protesters, medics, legal observers and journalists)

CAMPAIGNS:

 Women's Rights are Human Rights

What you can do this month...from home:

 Protect women's rights

 Climate Justice is a Human Right 

• Why is Climate/Environment Justice a human rights issue?  Learn more here

RECENT EVENTS:

 Rally at Yuba County Jail

Amnesty International Sacramento participated in a Tsuru for Solidarity rally to protest conditions for immigrant detainees who are held at the Yuba County Jail by I.C.E. contract. The January 11, 2020 program was amazing and the impact will be far reaching.  #immigrantrights are #humanrights More information on the situation here

 Sacramento Write for Rights Events

Write for Rights community events were held in December and January. Thanks to Luna's Cafe and Urban Roots Brewery for hosting Write for Rights

Sixty-three people participated in the Sacramento events and wrote 206 messages to support people around the world jailed or harmed because of their words, beliefs or peaceful actions.  Amnesty International club Folsom High School wrote 25 letters! 

Human Rights Altar for Immigrants

Nov. 2019: Amnesty International Sacramento participated in Panteon de Sacramento with an altar honoring immigrants who died at US detention facilities.

^click photo above to see a whole gallery of altar photos.

Hundreds of visitors stopped at our altar to view individual stories, learn about the issue of detainee mistreatment and take action.  Several hundred people signed a petition calling for a Congressional investigation of conditions for child detainees.

(The Panteón de Sacramento is an urban re-creation of Día de los Muertos that takes place in small village cemeteries throughout Mexico to honor the dead)

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