[hr-education-na] Children's Edition Urgent Action

Hello Amy,

It's lovely to hear Amnesty spoken so well of, so I'm adding my voice to
yours and sharing information to those on the list serve about our AIUSA
web site www.amnestyusa.org/aikids and about the monthly Children's
Edition Urgent Action, which provides teachers and parents with a
simply-written, large-font casesheets about particular children on whose
behalf middle and junior high schoolers can write.

Soon we'll distribute and post the Children's Edition of AIUSA's popular
2004 Summer Postcard Action which can be used at camps and Sunday schools
as well as at the kitchen table!

Ellen

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Ellen V. Moore <emoore@aiusa.org>

Amnesty International USA Urgent Action Program
POB 1270,  96 Tejas Lane,  Nederland CO 80466-1270,  USA
Tel: (303) 258-1170;  Fax: (303) 258-7881

ASK ME ABOUT FIRST APPEAL PLEDGE PROGRAM
   AND CHILDREN'S EDITION URGENT ACTIONS.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about
things that matter."                       Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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On June 16, 2004, Anderegg Amy <abhea2000@yahoo.com> wrote:

I think it's a great idea to teach human rights as I actively do in my
World History/Civics classes at the 9th grade level.  However, the media
and society are tough things to go against and I'm not quite sure human
rights are at the forefront of these two entities.  Moreover, I believe
for a school to teach this effectively, the teachers -all of them- must be
united and teaching in a school of over 100 faculty I see it as a
difficult task - not impossible but when you have certain teachers making
homophobic slurs and other such comments it's a hard battle to fight; yet,
I haven't stopped fighting it yet.  I am doing some things in a service
learning context next school year with regard to child labor and
sweatshops.  If anyone can get to a service learning conference it's well
worth it.  I also started an Amnesty International student group this past
year and it's amazing to me the knowledge/awareness that many people don't
have with regard to this organization or human rights abuses in general.





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