Please join us for our monthly meeting on Wednesday 14 September 2005 at 7pm. We will first discuss Action Team business and at 7:45pm we will start the teach-in. The meeting will be held at the Amnesty International office (600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, metro Eastern Market).
For the teach-in, we will be discussing the Violence Against Women Act, which is up for renewal this month. We are honored to have Allison Randall from the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) share her expertise on this historic law. Allison will talk about the reauthorization of the VAWA. She will talk in particular about the new housing provisions in VAWA.
Here is the agenda for the meeting:
-Update on the sexual and reproductive rights resolution
-October 12th and November 9th - Speaker suggestions of October and November meetings
-October 22nd and 23rd Amnesty International Regional Conference in Philadelphia
-October 24th and 25th - House parties for the Lifetime movie on Trafficking
-November 25th - December 10th - 16 days of Activism Against Gender Violence
-Planning a panel on sexual and reproductive rights for 2006 Annual General Meeting
Please remember: Wednesday 10 August 2005 at 7pm (DC WHRAT general business), 7:45pm VAWA Teach-in
Amnesty International Office (600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE) Eastern Market Metro
For more information please email Erica at ericachandra@hotmail.com. We hope to see you there!
