Exeter Peace Day
Sun Sept21, 2008 1 - 5 pm
Swasey
Parkway
Exeter,
NH
Amnesty
group 550 table at this even and will display a variety of Amnesty International materials including bookmark/postcards and
casesheets for Banned Books Week. Our table and banner will be near Tents of Hope, the Darfur relief organization with which
we frequently collaborate.
Book Discussion
Tues Oct 7th, 2008 7:00 pm
Water
Street Bookstore
125
Water St.
Exeter,
NH
AI
Local Group 550 will host a Book Event to mark the publication of "Five Years of My Life" by Murat Kurnaz, with Frank Heffron
and Peter Somssich (AI Case Workers for Murat Kuranz, a former Guantanamo detainee), and special guest Prof. Baher Azmey (Kurnaz's
American lawyer)
For more info click here.
Northeast Regional Conference
November 14-15, 2008 (Fri – Sat)
Boston
University
Boston,
MA
Join us at this year's Northeast Regional Conference!
Keynote speaker
Hear
Grace Akallo, author of GIRL SOLDIER speak about decades of brutal
armies of rebels raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders.
More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years. Grace Akallo was one of these. Her story recounts
her terrifying experience.
