Open Letter Press Conference
Thursday, June 2, 2022 | 12:00pm CDT
Join us for a Press Conference covering our Open Letter to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism. There will be several speakers in attendance at this event.
Here's a listing of all our past events.
May 2022 Meeting
Sunday, May 15, 2022 | 2:00pm to 4:00pm CDT
Join us for our regular monthly meeting. The first hour of our meeting covers our regular agenda items, News/Events, MMIW, Death Penalty, Philippines, Lobbying.
In the second hour, we will hear from Alicia Koutsoulieris, The second hour includes a guest speaker or presentation on a current human rights topic.
April 2022 Meeting
Sunday, April 24, 2022 | 2:00pm to 4:00pm CDT
Join us for our regular monthly meeting. The first hour of our meeting covers our regular agenda items, News/Events, MMIW, Death Penalty, Philippines, Lobbying.
In April, James Roth will present on his upcoming paper on Transforming the Minneapolis Police, and actions to bring the UN Special Rapporteur to Minneapolis in 2022.
March 2022 Meeting
Sunday, March 20, 2022 | 2:00pm to 4:00pm CDT
Join us for our monthly meeting, discussing current events, our focus areas of MMIW - Death Penalty - Philippines - Lobbying. This month's Guest Speaker is Cristofer Correia Carballo, a Humphrey fellow from Venezuela. Cristofer will talk about the humanitarian crisis happening in Venezuela now.
Human Rights forum: The war in Ukraine - March 2022
Thursday, March 17, 2022 | 7:00pm to 8:15pm CDT
Presented by Citizens for Global Solutions MN
Human Rights forum: The war in Ukraine - March 2022
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022
Time: 7 pm - 8:15 pm Central Time | GMT -6:00
Where: Zoom
Cost: FREE and open to the public
Guest Speaker: THOMAS HANSON
A Look Inside Bring Her Home
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | 6:00pm to 8:42pm CDT
Join us for a virtual discussion about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) epidemic in anticipation of the national broadcast of Bring Her Home - a new feature documentary from Twin Cities PBS directed by Leya Hale (Dakota/Diné) and produced by Sergio Rapu (Rapanui).
Sign up for the virtual discussion and a free preview of the film.
Amnesty USA Annual General Meeting 2022
Friday, March 4, 2022 | 12:00am CST to Sunday, March 6, 2022 | 12:00am CST
AIUSA’s Virtual AGM will provide a space for people to come together to increase knowledge, build skills, and exchange ideas and strategies for progressing a human rights agenda! Like in 2021, this year, given the pandemic, we will be hosting one V-AGM’22 over 3-days, March 4th – 6th.
February 2021 Meeting
Sunday, February 20, 2022 | 2:00pm to 4:00pm CST
Join us for our monthly meeting, discussing current events, our focus areas of MMIW - Death Penalty - Philippines - Lobbying. Todd Pierce will be our featured speaker, discussing the legal foundation of Guantanamo.
January 2022 Meeting
Sunday, January 16, 2022 | 2:00pm to 4:00pm CST
Join us for another monthly group meeting via Zoom. We will discuss our usual topics, and arrange a guest speaker.
In January, we will focus our attention on Closing Guantanamo, which started operations on Jan 11th 2002.
Guest Speaker - Todd E. Pierce, military historian and former JAG (pro bono Military Commission Defense Counsel) at Guantánamo, has represented 3 defendants before the Military Commissions at Guantánamo. He has presented on Guantánamo many times before different organizations, including at our own May 2016 meeting and gave an excellent presentation on the dysfunction at Guantánamo. This presentation will mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the detention center at Guantánamo where there are still 39 prisoners (13 of whom have been cleared for release but remain) at a cost of about $14,000,000 per prisoner per year.
December 2021 NO Group Meeting
Sunday, December 19, 2021 | 2:00pm to 4:00pm CST
NO regular group meeting in December, Please join is for our annual Write for Rights event instead!
