AI Conference: November 14, 2009.
On November 14, Zeb Casperson, Fiona Boyd, and Colin Shott of the Watershed School traveled to Boston University for the annual Amnesty International Conference. Zeb, Fiona, and Colin are all members of the new Amnesty group at Watershed. The group is in the registration process, and will soon become an official student group.
Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries campaigning for
human rights worldwide. The organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied.
The students listened to panels on the Death Penalty and Guantanamo Bay. They also
participated in a Student Organizing Workshop for new groups. Despite the torrential downpour in Boston on the fourteenth, the students acquired skills in group organizing, and grew more informed
At the conference
about Amnesty International as a whole, and some of the specific areas that it is working to improve.
By Fiona Boyd
Discussing the issues
