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SPECIAL PROGRAMS:
AGM Service Project
Student Activist Participation
Visions for Growth
AGM Panels
Ideas Fair
AGM WaterFire Action
STUDENT ACTIVIST CAUCUS
Come to the AGM Friday afternoon March 10 before 4:00 p.m. to participate in the exciting CEDAW WaterFire Action and join other students on Friday night from 8:00 - 10:00 pm for the Student Activist Caucus.
Share, learn and network with AI student activists who bring a wealth of experience and ideas from their student groups. The National Field Program is developing an agenda that will include everyone in this learning and sharing session and will be facilitated by Amnesty student activists. Come exchange useful information and ideas that will help build your student group. Food served from 7:30 - 8:00 pm! Questions/comments, contact Lisa Sock of the National Field Program at lsock@aiusa.org.
STUDENT ACTIVIST NIGHT AT AlternativeSpace220
Immediately following the Student Activist Caucus, AIUSA students in Rhode Island will be hosting an event off-site at nearby AS220. AS220, or Alternative Space 220, is a popular local forum and home for the arts. Its mission is to provide an open and permanent venue for artists of all types and calibers. With a funky art gallery, stage and coffe bar, it also serves as a networking and community-building center.
AS220 is a perfect venue for a space away from the AGM for Amnesty activists to meet and organize with other young people in Providence and to provide a forum for building the human rights culture among local and regional youth. It will be a relaxed evening with performance by local artists, food, drink, conversations, and a chance to step up to the "activist mike" and let people know what you've been doing to stop human rights abuses.
Special guest Najat Bouda of Algeria will be on hand to provide an international perspective. Najat is 23 years old and is currently President and one of the founding members of Rassemblement Action Jeunesse (RAJ), an Algerian non-sectarian youth organization dedicated to mobilizing young people to tackle social problems and address the human rights situation in Algeria. RAJ has addressed many issues relating to the Algerian family code, including an international conference on women and the Algerian crisis in Paris in 1994. This charismatic young woman has been working tirelessly to shed light on the plight of Algerian women and youth and how they are effected by the carnage taking place there. RAJ continues to collaborate with the International Secretariat of Amnesty International and other human rights organizations on many issues.
Come to AIUSA Student Activist Night at AS220 (from 10 pm to 1 am Friday, March 10) to meet old friends and make great new ones! Check out this spot on the AGM web site for coming information and performing artists.
STUDENT ACTIVIST CREATE SPACE
The Create Space at the AGM site will showcase national student activism and be available for impromptu meetings and/or informal social get-togethers.
AGM 2000 Unified Student Action:
An action from the student activists of the 2000 AGM is being developed. Look here on the AGM website for developments.
Submissions for Create Space:
School groups or individuals can contribute by submitting photos, newspaper/TV media clips, collages/posters, event fliers, and other creative representations of student activities for posting in the Student Activist Create Space.
Submissions should include:
- the name of the school
- names of people involved with contact information
- date/brief description of event
- a mailing address (if submissions need to be returned at the cost of the sender)
Send all materials to:
AGM Planning Office c/o
AIUSA
322 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
General questions and suggestions regarding student activist participation at the AGM can be directed to Laura Kim, Student Liaison to the AGM Planning Committee, at laurakim1@yahoo.com.
