TAKOMA PARK AND SILVER SPRING, MD
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
GROUP #297

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 16 at 7:30pm
at Panera Bread near the corner of Colesville Rd and Georgia Ave in Silver Spring.


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Coming April 2010:
The Human Rights Art Festival
Silver Spring, Maryland

Our Mission:

Amnesty International's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

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What We're Doing:

Currently the Takoma Park, Maryland group is working on the following campaigns:

  • Freeing Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage, prisoners of conscience in Indonesia.
  • Pressuring the Chinese government to grant a free and fair trial to a person accused of being involved in counter-revolutionary activities in Xianjiang province in northwest China.
  • Sponsoring the Human Rights Painting Project.
  • Working to repeal Maryland's death penalty.

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