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THE AMNESTY TREE In June 1999, Amnesty International Canada had its AGM in St. John's on the campus of Memorial University. At that time a tree was dedicated to the memory of those who died ten years earlier in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

This is how the tree looked in May 2004. It still had its Christmas lights.





PROGRAMME FOR 2006

(permanently under construction)


Group 60 meets on the last Tuesday of each month. We do not usually meet in December, and the July meeting normally takes the form of a pot-luck supper at the house of one of our members (details provided nearer the date via the email list).

TUESDAY 31 JANUARY at 8:00 p.m. (or come at 7:30 for letter writing), Brother Murphy Centre, 95 Water St. People, profits, and global human rights: Everyone is welcome to Amnesty International's monthly meeting, where Bill Hynd (Oxfam Canada) and Tracy Glynn (JATAM Mining Advocacy network, Society for Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility) will present information about human rights and global business practices, including coffee production, sweatshops, and mining.
PRE-MEETING LETTER WRITING:  The meeting room will open at 7:30 pm so that letter writing on current actions can get underway before the meeting formally begins at 8:00 pm.  Letter writing materials will be available.


WEDNESDAY 1 FEBRUARY at 7:30pm, Group 60 Film Club screening at the Lantern on 35 Barnes Rd. - "Nuevo Horizonte", a documentary about a new way of life in a Guatemalan community that has invented cooperatives as the solution to poverty. An Atlantic Canada premiere, in collaboration with CUSO. Click here for more details. Note: the filmmaker Santiago Bertolini will be present!



March '05 group meeting


Tuesday, February 28th at the Brother T.I. Murphy Centre, 95 Water St., 7:30 p.m. for letter-writing, and 8:00 p.m. for the meeting. Topic: Socially Responsible Investment. Dwight Noseworthy, Financial Planning Advisor and member of the Canadian Association for Socially Responsible Investment (and long-time Amnesty International member!) will be presenting.  All welcome!


MARCH: the Human Rights Film Festival this year is being held on Friday and Saturday, March 10 and 11 at MUN, room A1043. Admission will be $7 per screening for wage-earners and pay-what-you-can for others. For full details, click here (a link to a separate site devoted to the Film Club).

Letter-writing on behalf of women victims of abuse in the Indian state of Gujarat

Tuesday, 25 April 2004, 8.00 p.m. at the Brother T. I. Murphy Learning Resource Centre, 95 Water Street (just east of Prescott Street). 


PRE-MEETING LETTER WRITING:  The meeting room will open at 7:30 pm so that letter writing on current actions can get underway before the meeting formally begins at 8:00 pm.  Letter writing materials will be available.

Side Note: Filmmaker Ed Martin has given Group 60 a DVD copy and a VHS copy of his film “The Mushuau Innu: Surviving Canada” that was shown at the March meeting.  The copies are available to anyone who would like to borrow them.

Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 8.00 p.m. at the Brother T. I. Murphy Learning Resource Centre, 95 Water Street (just east of Prescott Street). 
Stephen Aylward will give a presentation on the HIV/Aids crisis in Brazil, discussing the policy responses of the Brazilian government with an emphasis on the treatment of health as a human right.

PRE-MEETING LETTER WRITING:  The meeting room will open at 7:30 pm so that letter writing on current actions can get underway before the meeting formally begins at 8:00 pm.  Letter writing materials will be available.


Tuesday, 27 June 2006, 8.00 p.m. at the Brother T. I. Murphy Learning Resource Centre, 95 Water Street (just east of Prescott Street). 
The renewal of Group 60, post-Murphy Centre.  This will be the final meeting at the Murphy Centre, which has very generously hosted Group 60 for the past several years, and this year happens to be the Group’s 25th anniversary.  In light of those events, the meeting will plan the renewal of Amnesty International Group 60’s commitment to human rights activism.  Everyone interested in Amnesty International and human rights issues in general is invited to participate.

PRE-MEETING LETTER WRITING:  The meeting room will open at 7:30 pm so that letter writing on current actions can get underway before the meeting formally begins at 8:00 pm.  Letter writing materials will be available.




Future meetings will be posted here as they are arranged. 

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