
Video created by California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice - CCIJ
Amnesty International Sacramento is advocating for the release of immigrant detainees at the ICE Detention portion of the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, CA.
Find out what you can do to help!
Information and Actions
Human Rights Book Club We will meet online on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7 PM.
The next meeting will be on Thursday March 18th. We will discuss the book Speak Up! Speeches by Young People to Empower & Inspire edited by Adora Svitak. Register here. The book is available online or at the public library.
A Zoom link will be sent the week of the book club meeting! Register and share the link with book lovers & human rights supporters
tinyurl.com/humanrightsbookclub
April 2021 We will read Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson
Write for Rights
Online together on December 19, 2020, people all over California wrote letters, emails and posted on social media to help those around the world who have been harmed or jailed for their human rights work or beliefs. Over 400 messages of support were generated!
CAMPAIGNS:
Close Guantanamo Prison
This month marks the 19th year that Guantanamo Prison is open. There are still dozens of people held there who have never been charged with a crime, have been tortured, and have not been allowed a trial in a court of law.
First person testimony about the horrors of Guantanamo
We demand that the prisoners be charged or released, allowed trials and that Guantanamo prison be closed. Join us in asking President-elect Biden to close Guantanamo. Actions here
A new film available here
Earlier in 2020:
Supporting Banned writers and journalists
around the world
Amnesty International Sacramento produced and presented a webinar about writers who are harrassed or jailed for their writing.
We ask that you write to support two writers, one harassed for her writing and activism in the U.S., one jailed (at age 70) for a 10 year sentence for writing criticism of the Turkish government policies
Find sample letters here. Thank you for speaking out!



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