Events

2025 Write for Rights

AIUSA Group 48’s annual Write for Rights event will be held on Thursday, December 11th, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at Bold Coffee and Books, 1755 SW Jefferson Street, Portland. Please join us for conversation, beverages, and delicious desserts as we write letters and cards on the cases featured in Amnesty International’s annual global event.…

23 Years of Guantanamo: Close the “Detention Center” Now!

One day before the 23rd anniversary of the notorious prison’s opening, people in Portland will gather for a rally and march calling to close down United States’ Guantanamo Bay “detention center” in Cuba. Thirty (30) people remain there. Most of the active military aspects of the “war on terror” have subsided, and for years, over…

2024 Write for Rights

AIUSA Group 48 will host its annual Write for Rights in December. Write for Rights is Amnesty International’s annual global letter writing marathon that generate millions of messages for people whose basic human rights are under attack. Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 Time: 1:00-4:00pm Location: Central Library, 801 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR 97205 What to bring:

Guantanamo: 22 Years of Imprisonment without End … for 29 People

On Friday, January 12, 2024 Portlanders will gather for a rally and march calling once again to close down the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The US opened this “detention facility” on January 11, 2002, twenty-two years ago. Twenty-nine (29) people remain there. Most of the active military aspects of the “war on terror”…

Free event: Messages of Hope from Myanmar

When the Myanmar military overthrew a parliamentary government in February 2021, people filled the streets in protest. Met with violence, they have continued a nationwide Civil Disobedience Movement and many have taken up arms in a “Generation Z” war of resistance. Join Portland author and activist Edith Mirante for an overview of Myanmar (Burma) since the coup and…

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