As an alternative to braving the dark rainy night, we tried an on-line meeting for our November meeting which proceeded without any IT hitches! We focussed on Justice for Nigeria (J4N) by watching a short You Tube video showing the level of pollution in the Niger delta and the anger and frustration of the local community. We are looking forward to welcoming MOSOP leader Lazarus Tamana and co-founder of J4N, along with Caz Dennett, another founder, to our January meeting to talk more on this subject. See our Events page for more details.

Media of the Month:

“Russian Street Musicians jailed for protest songs”. Click on the link below to hear them.

Russian Street Musicians

Case details are also on AIUK website

Russia: Street musicians jailed for a third time over anti-war songs – Amnesty International

Write for Rights

We have had two successful Write for Rights campaigns, first at St Mary Magdalene Church on December 6^th. Unfortunately the weather was dreadful which meant far fewer people were in town, but about 25 cards were signed and some good conversations were had with interested passersby.

Taunton Amnesty Group also joined forces with students from Richard Huish College, a link forged by one of our members Pat. A large number of students were involved manning a stall and collecting signatures for letters and petitions for abortion rights, climate action in Ecuador and US student rights. An excellent example of direct action and awareness raising.

We hope some of you will join us for our talk on J4N on January 13^th at 7.30pm – if you would like to join online, please contact us by emailing amnestytaunton@gmail.com

With best wishes to you all for a happy Christmas!