Minehead

On Saturday 27 January, members of the Minehead Amnesty International Group joined with others to remember those who have suffered and died in genocides - such as by the Nazis against Jews and other groups; and in genocides in Cambodia...

Our January 2018 newsletter includes details of forthcoming events over the next few weeks. The first of these is a vigil, exhibition and words & music for Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. Then on 14 February we are holding...

This year the theme of the Minehead Christmas Tree Festival was 'messages and messengers'. So this fitted well with Amnesty's Write for Rights Campaign to send messages of hope to individual prisoners of conscience and their families...

Despite cold and windy weather, a steady stream of people visited our Write for Rights event inside and outside the Avenue Methodist Church in Minehead on Friday 8 December. We had selected five campaign cases to focus on and invited...

Our December newsletter includes updates on our current campaigns, actions you can take this month and diary dates for the next three months. December and January are busy with the Christmas Tree Festival, our Write for Rights coffee...

Our November newsletter includes reports of our latest letter writing afternoon and also our October group meeting, when we had a training session on Amnesty's new global campaign - Brave. This campaign seeks to strengthen the...

Our latest letter writing session took place on the afternoon of Thursday 5 October at Townsend House, Minehead. 70 letters were written, thanks to the hard work of local Amnesty members and supporters. We were writing letters about...

August and September were busy months for our Minehead Group, and our latest newsletter includes write-ups of our stall at Allerford Fair, the group's summer social event, and the fund-raising concert. Also included is an account of...

On the afternoon of Sunday 17 September the Minehead Group was delighted to host a wonderful lecture-recital entitled 'In search of "Ol' Man River" - the life and music of Paul Robeson' . Arwell Huw Morgan (bass) sang songs which...

Our August newsletter includes reports of our AmnesTEA on 8 July and our July group meeting. At the meeting we watched two video clips - one was about the human rights abuses suffered by women asylum seekers in UK detention centres and...