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IDEAS FAIR 2000
The Ideas Fair at Amnesty International USA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a standing exhibit of displays submitted by AI Local Chapters, Campus Chapters, Co-Groups, Regional Offices, exceptional individual AI activists, specialty Task Forces and Steering Committees, and staff. Do you find yourself on this list?The "idea" of the AGM "Ideas" Fair is to engage the viewer with "visuals": posters, photographs, graphs and charts, newspaper clippings, "how-to" recipes for successful events, video or audio tapes. All AGM attendees and guests pass through the Ideas Fair. This year's Providence, RI, AGM 2000 promises to be well attended; plan to mount a display celebrating your group's, or your own, note-worthy human rights activities!
Ideas Fair exhibits can be interactive: you may post materials to share, or ask viewers to sign-up for later contact. Ideas from your exhibit could be carried home in hundreds of pockets to hundreds of pockets of local human rights activism here in the US and abroad! Think about sharing your group's newsletters or other publications at the AGM Ideas Fair 2000. No idea is too modest or too grandiose.
Past AGM Ideas Fairs have featured memorable exhibits: in San Francisco in 1998 Martha Ter Matt introduced the Prayer Flag Project and dozens, perhaps hundreds of AGM attendees created and displayed prayer flags at the Cathedral Hill Hotel. In 1997 Anna Uremovich, an intern at the AIUSA Archives at the University of Colorado - Boulder, put together a wonderful display explaining and promoting the archives; in 1996 DC staffer Carlos Salinas and DC area activists put together a breath-taking exhibit documenting human rights abuses in Columbia allegedly under-written with anti-drug funds from the United States; Group #122 - Santa Fe's - Children for Children exhibit included a powerful editorial from The New Mexican extolling the virtues of advocacy letter-writing for children; the Urgent Action Program showed-off UAs in French and Spanish and simply-written Children's Edition UAs; former Guatemala co-group leader Heather Wiley highlighted the Indigenous Peoples' Campaign with large, exquisite photos of endangered villagers; Lisa Berg's "AI Publication Through the Years," was an eye-opener and Lisa gave away hundreds of reproduction copies of AI's first Annual Report! Jack Rendler, former AIUSA Campaigns Director and Scott Harrison, Urgent Action Coordinator, exhibited their photographs of Rwandan children from the UN Refugee Camps in Goma, Zaire. Displays and content are subject to review by the AGM Planning Committee for compliance with the Amnesty International mandate.
Sign up today for Ideas Fair 2000; call or write with your questions:
IDEAS FAIR 2000
AIUSA
PO Box 1270
Nederland, CO 80466-1270
Phone: (303) 258-1170
E-mail: emoore@aiusa.org
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IDEAS FAIR SIGN-UP
Sign-Up Today:
Name____________________________________________
Address__________________________________________
City___________________State__________Zip Code__________
Phone:______________Email:_________________Fax:__________
Your AIUSA role____________________________________
Please briefly describe your Ideas Fair exhibit_______________________________
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Panels size is about 3'x7'. Due to space constraints Ideas Fair Participants may reserve one full or one half panel.
AIUSA 2000 AGM - March 10-12, Providence, Rhode Island
Please mail, email, or fax this sign-up form to: AIUSA 2000 AGM Ideas Fair Urgent Action Office - Attn: Ellen Moore PO Box 1270 Nederland, CO 80466-1270 Fax: (303) 258-7881; Email: emoore@aiusa.org [call (303) 258-1170 with questions]
