Here's a listing of all our past events.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
NO regular group meeting in December, Please join is for our annual Write for Rights event instead!
Join us for this year's event - the 20th Anniversary of Write For Rights!
Here's the instructions for this year's event:
We'll provide envelopes, labels, and paper for letter writing. Let us know if you are not able to write and would like a pre-printed letter. We will also provide stamps.
Join us for another monthly group meeting via Zoom. We will discuss our usual topics, and arrange a guest speaker. Today's meeting is dedicated to David Weissbrodt. We will feature a panel of speakers that will talk about their time and work with David.
Each month, CGS-MN will share the name of a film or documentary with a global perspective, chosen to expand our horizons and educate us about the world. This month's film is Hotel Rwanda.
