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SUMMARY:Write for Rights with Amnesty USA Groups 9/280
DESCRIPTION:This Sunday\, join the Society and Amnesty USA Group 9/280 to do your part in Amnesty’s Write for Rights Campaign to demand President Biden use Pardons and Clemencies to Save Lives Before He Leaves Office! \nEvery year\, Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign brings together people from around the world to fight injustice and support people whose human rights are under threat\, and this year marks our 23rd year of writing for human rights. Every fall\, to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10th\, the campaign brings together people all over the world to help end cases of urgent human rights abuses. \nWe write letters to stop torture\, halt executions\, and free people unjustly detained—including prisoners of conscience—people jailed solely for the peaceful expression of their beliefs or identity. \nWe have heard over and over again from former prisoners of conscience\, human rights defenders\, torture survivors\, and death row prisoners that letters and online actions by Amnesty International activists as part of Write for Rights saved their lives and gave them hope. We also have heard from current and former government officials that our activism can change the minds of decision makers. \nEnvelopes\, stamps\, pens\, and prepared letters will be provided. Please bring your own return labels if you have them. \nLearn about how Write for Rights works. \nRead about the successes of Write for Rights 2023. \nCases of Concern in 2024\nAmnesty is especially concerned to continue to pressure President Biden to commute the death sentences of those on federal death row (about 40 men) and also to seek clemency for Leonard Peltier (who is subject of the Write for Rights 2024 among 9 others) and to seek clemency for Billie Allen \nAs Indigenous elder and activist Leonard Peltier approaches his 80th birthday on September 12\, Amnesty International USA has written a letter to President Biden again urging him to grant clemency for Peltier and to release him immediately. Peltier has been incarcerated for nearly 50 years despite serious and ongoing concerns about the fairness of his trial. Earlier this year Amnesty International USA asked the U.S. Parole Commission and the Bureau of Prisons to grant Peltier parole\, or compassionate release\, respectively which they denied. \nBillie Jerome Allen has been on federal death row for well over half his life. Now 45\, he was 19 at the time of the crime for which he was sentenced to death in 1998 despite racial bias affecting his case\, his age at the time of the crime\, and lack of evidence linking him to the crime. He is a prodigiously talented artist and his family has been working on his behalf for years in face of his unfair trial. \nLearn more about the other 2024 Write for Rights Campaign cases here. \nContact President Biden\nContact President Biden by email here: \nhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ \nCall the White House directly by phone: \n+1 (202) 456-1111 during these hours only: 11am-3pm EST Tuesday-Thursday \n(Press 1 to record a message\, or hold to leave message with actual staff) \nSend a letter to the President (sample here): \nPresident Joseph R. Biden \nThe White House \n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue\, N.W. \nWashington\, DC 20500
URL:https://ethical.nyc/events/write-for-rights-amnesty-2024/
LOCATION:Elliott Library (507)\, 2 W 64th St\, New York\, NY\, 10023\, United States
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