Earlier this week our group was sent the
Sister Laola Hironaka Honorable Mention Award
Certificate from Amnesty International USA. We are certainly honored. It
is your dedication and commitment to human rights that have made our
efforts so successful. Together we are sharing information and taking
action. A click on an online petition, a handwritten letter, a greeting
card at Nowruz, your photo holding a sign of support, sharing posts on
Facebook, retweeting tweets, and passing on fact-based human rights news
items are just some of the ways we have worked together to promote and
protect human rights and individuals at home and around the world. Time
to celebrate! 
Note: We would also like to congratulate the Amnesty International Chicago
group for winning the Sister Laola Hironaka Award. One of our AI Madison
Group #139 members, Angie Hougas, is also a member of their group.
Congratulations to them and to Angie (who is also on the AIUSA Board).
If you are in Madison, WI in the next couple of weeks, don't miss these
amazing events. I wish I could clone myself and attend each and every
one of them.
- April 15: "Burning Country" book signing and talk from 2:30 to 4:00 at Vilas Hall
- April 15 & 16, 2016: 2016 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being, UW Madison
- April 16, 2016: Madison, WI: Screening of "Merci Congo" - 1-4:30 pm
- April 16: "Burning Country" book signing at Rainbow Bookstore at 426 W. Gilman Street, Madison at 2:00 pm
- April 18, 2016: Sandwiches for Syrian Refugees!
- April 20, 2016: The Annual Fish-Harnack Lecture, Judge Thomas Buergenthal
- April 22, 2016: Jamnesty at The Crossing at 7:00pm sponsored by AI UW-Madison Students
Have a wonderful week.!
-Debbie, Weekly Update Editor
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