SUMMER IS NEARLY OVER! (and it's raining!)

Posted 24 Aug 2013, 11:07am By

As we haven't had a meeting this month, I thought I'd report a few matters that have cropped up since the July meeting.

we have been included in a general action coming up on Burma - more details soon from Tony Fairman, the Burma co-ordinator
AI UK has also offered us a Burmese Individual at Risk so we'll need to decide at our September meeting whether or not we want to be involved in both a general action and an IaR
Lynette will take on co-ordination of Burma material in the Group
Tony Fairman will come to our 8th January meeting to talk about Burmah - he couldn't make 10th October, which we'd set aside in our programme for Burma, so we'll need to review the programme on 12th September
Patricia has had another letter in the Southend Echo about the election in Zimbabwe
the "Action Pack" for the Zimbabwe Campaign arrived only a couple of days before the general election there so we didn't have time to organise any action
The Amnesty International Council Meeting - the overall decision-making body of AI - has been taking place in Berlin. There will no doubt be something on the AI UK website eventually but if you want a flavour of the proceedings click here. There's also an e-mail from the AI UK Board attached below.

Hope to see you at Avenue Baptists on 12th September.

Mike Pregnall

Southend Amnesty Group Secretary

01702 204748