Schedule of Events

Annual General Meeting 2004

FRIDAY, 16 April

7:00 am - 4:00 pm       AIUSA Committee and Program Meetings*

9:00 am - 7:00 pm       AGM Services: Registration and Voting Cards, AGM Office, Marketplace, Child Care (until 6:30 pm)

10:00 am - 4:00 pm       Workshop: Intersecting Commitments: Fighting Discrimination, Strengthening Organizational Diversity

10:00 am - 12:00 pm       National Program Priority Workshops

• Campaign Against Discrimination, Part 1 (AI's Stop Violence Against Women Campaign)
• Death Penalty Abolition
• Economic, Cultural and Social Rights
• War on Terror

10:30 am - 2:00 pm       Tours: Lower East Side Tenement Museum (off-site)

11:00 am - 2:00 pm       NGO Career Panel

12:00 pm - 3:30 pm       NGO Career Forum

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm       National Program Priority Workshops

• Campaign against Discrimination, Part 2(Combating Discriminatory Policies Against People of Color and LGBT)
• Death Penalty Abolition (Repeat)
• Economic, Cultural and Social Rights (Repeat)

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm       Workshop: Let's Plan a Media Event

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm       Rally at Brooklyn Borough Hall

5:15 pm - 6:30 pm       Welcoming Plenary

6:45 pm - 7:45 pm       Welcoming Reception

6:45 pm - 7:45 pm       Resolutions Workers Meeting*

8:00 pm - 9:30 pm       Town Meeting*

9:45 pm - 11:30 pm       Learning from a Difficult Situation: The Report of the Lessons Learned Task Force

9:45 pm - 10:45 pm       Get on the Bus for Human Rights

9:45 pm - 10:45 pm       Networking Lounge

Doors open at 8:30 pm       Wide Awake: An AGM Afterparty

SATURDAY, 17 April

Breakfast Caucuses (breakfast served)
9:00 am - 10:45 am       Student and Youth Activists
9:00 am - 10:45 am       Local Group Members

9:00 am - 6:30 pm       AGM Services: Registration and Voting Cards AGM Office, Marketplace, Child Care

Working Parties*
10:00 am - 1:00 pm       Governance (note: earlier start time)
11:00 am - 1:00 pm       Membership
11:00 am - 1:00 pm       Program

11:00 am - 12:30 pm       Meet and Greet: Welcome to Amnesty International

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm       Board Candidates' Forum
(light lunch served)

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm       Lunchtime AIUSA Member Caucuses*
(light lunch served)

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
• People of Color
• Women' Human Rights
• Open Caucuses

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm       AIUSA Program Spotlight
(light lunch served)

• Business, Environment, and Human Rights
• Refugee
• U.S. Domestic Human Rights
• AI's Position on Military Intervention

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm       AGM Focus Plenary:
Vigilant Justice: Securing Human Rights in Today's World

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm       Panels Part I

5:45 pm - 6:00 pm       Coffee Break

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm       Panels Part II

7:45 pm - 8:45 pm       Meet the Authors Reception:
Book Signing With Bill Schulz, John Shattuck, and Jessica Stern

9:00 pm - 11:00 pm       Networking Lounge

SUNDAY, 18 April

8:00 am - 9:00 am       Check-out

9:00 am - 2:00 pm       AGM Services: Registration and Voting Cards AGM Office, Marketplace, Child Care

9:00 am - 11:00 am       AIUSA Resolutions Voting Plenary*
(breakfast served)

11:15 am - 12:45 pm       AIUSA Sectional Priority Plenary*
(light lunch served)

11:15 am - 12:45 pm       Discussion Group: The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and AIUSA- Bringing it Home

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm       Closing Plenary "The Domestic Impact of the 'War on Terror' on Human Rights Immigrants and Communities"

*Internal Meeting: Open to AIUSA Members Only