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davidpdx

(22,000 posts) Wed Jan 7, 2015, 10:34 PM Jan 2015

Interest in a human rights group?

Hello Activist Headquarters,

Given the amount of other topics that are discussed in GD, I have noticed that threads on human rights generally fall fairly quickly to the bottom and get very few replies (most notably the ones on North Korea). Maybe there are only a limited amount of people who are truly interested in discussing this, so I propose starting a human rights group.

Specifically I'm looking to discuss human rights issues that don't get much notice to provide information about them in the hope of finding more core activists to help spread the word about them.

My goal is to find at least 20-25 members to be able to justify having this new group.

If this is something you would be interested in, please chime in and also recommend the thread.

Thanks,

David

Ps-If anyone is interested in helping to recruit people please post this in your sig line

If you are interested in a Human Rights Group please comment in this thread

(cross-posted from GD)

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Interest in a human rights group? (Original Post) davidpdx Jan 2015 OP

I am an activist volunteer with Amnesty International oldandhappy Jan 2015 #1

Thanks Oldandhappy davidpdx Feb 2015 #2

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), based in Montgomery County realcourage Jul 2015 #4

Interested nhpunx447 Feb 2015 #3

Message auto-removed Name removed Sep 2015 #5

Anything happening with your efforts? oldandhappy Nov 2015 #6

oldandhappy

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1. I am an activist volunteer with Amnesty International

Reply to davidpdx (Original post)

Sun Jan 11, 2015, 02:33 PM

Jan 2015

and would love to have a place to at least recommend action for folk detained in dreadful places for standing up for human rights. Just posted a thread asking people to email the Saudi Arabia embassy in D.C. to stop the flogging of the blogger. For those of us no longer able to engage in a lot of physical activity, the chance to write letters and send emails is a way to continue to express our concerns.

Good luck!

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

2. Thanks Oldandhappy

Reply to oldandhappy (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 07:17 AM

Feb 2015

It's been about a month and I really want to get this group going. I will be sending out invites to a discussion about how we might move forward on getting the group started.

realcourage

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4. Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), based in Montgomery County

Reply to oldandhappy (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 14, 2015, 09:02 PM

Jul 2015

There is also Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), based in Montgomery County, which does a number of local and international events. R.E.A.L. has worked together with Amnesty on China events. But we really must not forget LOCAL human rights issues as well, and R.E.A.L. is currently dealing with a local issue in Montgomery County.