AIUK Extraordinary General Meeting – 12 January 2013

January 26, 2013

Keeping you up to date with information about our groups activities has usually been a fairly positive experience – helping to give uplift from the constant flow of news about prisoners of conscience, people under threat of execution and other human rights abuses we have long campaigned against.  We all feel the work of local […]

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Castlepoint Greetings Cards

December 9, 2012

Just a quick update to say this event went off well. Getting Jo Public to pause from their Christmas shopping to sign a card is never easy, but we got some sincere people who did stop. Thanks to everyone who turned out – remember, we will be doing a similar activity on Thursday (13th) at […]

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Greetings Card Campaign at Castlepoint

December 2, 2012

For many years now Amnesty International has run a greetings card campaign in December. This has entailed groups and individuals being encouraged to send greetings cards directly to prisoners of conscience (as opposed to letters to governments, etc), sending them a message of hope. Usually to let them know they are in our thoughts (and […]

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Autumn Quiz Night

November 18, 2012

What was the final score in this year’s Ryder cup? For the first time we held our quiz at the Britannia Inn, Lower Parkstone. This proved an excellent venue – not only did they not charge us, but a comfortable (and clean!) environment with easily accessible bar goes a long way towards a successful quiz. […]

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Hakamada Iwao – Fresh Hope for Retrial

October 7, 2012

Hakamada, who was sentenced to death in Japan in 1968 after an unfair trial, has spent much of the past four decades in solitary confinement. Under Japan’s death penalty system he could be executed any day, without warning. In recent years there has been little progress to report but in 2012, following many years of […]

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Bournemouth Street Collection

September 30, 2012

Thanks to everyone who turned out for yesterdays Bournemouth Street Collection. The weather held, the crowds were out – and as ever chose to largely ignore us!! Still we made £168.84                                     Our next fundraising event is our […]

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Stop the Execution of Reggie Clemons

August 31, 2012

Reggie Clemons is featured on our letters page as well, with a video of a Guardian interview, so please check that page out.  What is unique about his case (sadly being on death row in America with a very dubious conviction isn’t unique) is that the state of Missouri Supreme Court assigned a ‘special master’ […]

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Christchurch Street Collection

July 30, 2012

Thanks to everyone who helped out on Saturday.  And a warm welcome to Daniela who stayed for over two hours having only just made contact with our group! Street collections are not everyone’s idea of fun, as you can stand for ages being totally ignored by everyone… We raised £109 – which is quite a […]

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AmnesTEA in Southbourne

July 4, 2012

Anna Moreton help the group’s first AmnesTEA last weekend in Southbourne. The concept is simple – you invite people around for tea and cake – and encourage them to make a donation.  That hides the amount of work behind the scenes, plus trying to publicise the event (and then work out numbers). I know Anna […]

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Arms Trade Treaty

May 11, 2012

Please Sign the Petition We are in Bournemouth Square this Sunday (13th May) afternoon collecting signatures for an Amnesty International petition. We want David Cameron to join Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband by publicly committing the UK to lead the way in securing a bulletproof Arms Trade Treaty. No one knows for sure how many […]

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