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About Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an independent worldwide human rights
organization of over 1.4 million members. Through grassroots activism and
education, Amnesty International fights to protect and uphold the basic human
rights guaranteed to every individual. Independent of any political
affiliations, Amnesty International is able to expose and speak out against
human rights violations in every nation impartially. The strength of Amnesty
International is its worldwide membership; when we speak out on behalf of
others' human rights, we are protecting those rights for everyone, including
ourselves.
Amnesty International was the recipient of the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to
promote global observance of the
United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
About Group 133
Group 133 is one of 4,000 local and student Amnesty International
groups in the U.S. Based in Somerville, MA, Group 133 has been active for 22
years. Since its founding, the group has worked on behalf of prisoners in
Indonesia, Ghana, the former USSR, Chile, the former East Germany, East Timor,
Argentina, Uganda, Burundi, and other countries. During 1990-1993 the group
focused its efforts on obtaining asylum for Jose Mercedes Sotz Cate, a
Guatemalan trade unionist, and his son Jose Estuardo Sotz Alvarez.
Learn More
- Attend a meeting
The whole group meets once a month, on every second Tuesday.
Action Teams carry out human rights work that is focused on a particular
concern or region. Check out the events calendar to find when they're meeting.
- Make a tax-deductible contribution
Help support the work of the group financially.
Please visit
Communityroom.net to make a donation online.
- Read the Group 133 Bylaws
How we conduct our business, or at least try to.
- Add yourself to our email lists (see below)
There are also e-mail lists maintained by the individual Action Teams.
Contact the Action Team coordinators to sign up for those.
E-mail lists
Our Topica groups will
be discontinued in January 2008. To enroll in Amnesty Group 133
GoogleGroups, type in your email and click on the Subscribe button below.
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