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[amnestyinternationalgroup342pa]

Free Melike and Özgür! The two students were arrested for defending LGBTI rights in Turkey. Join AIUSA Group 342 for our ONLINE Write for Rights party, Wed, Dec. 16, 2020 at 7:30pm. We will write messages of hope to Melike and Özgür and other imprisoned unjustly, and we’ll sign petitions to gov’t. officials on their behalf. Contact barbquin at gmail.com for connection details. Read about our work: bit.ly/aiusa342

[the-bot-child]

Today we write for rights.

https://writeathon.ca/resources/#cases

On this website you will find ten cases in which people's basic human rights are violated.

I ask that you take time out of your day to either send support to the people who face this injustice, or to help the people in charge of this injustice realize their wrongdoings!

Let's all work together to change the world!

Thank you for your time!~♡

[casfinkel]

Jani García Letter

Estimado Presidente,

Le escribo desde España para expresar nuestra profunda preocupación por Jani García. Ella ha estado defendiendo decididamente el medioambiente desde los 16 años junto a los campesinos del departamento de Putumayo. Cuando los anteriores gobiernos de su país dieron licencia de explotación a Ecopetrol y a Amerisur en territorios solapantes con la reserva natural de la Perla Amazónica, ella fundó la Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral y Sostenible de la Perla Amazónica (ADISPA) para proteger a los locales y al entorno ambiental.

Desde entonces ha sido acosada y perseguida por distintos grupos e intereses, llegando incluso a recibir amenazas de muerte. Estos ataques han sido perpetrados por mafias del narcotráfico hasta multinacionales pasando por el mismísimo ejército. Esto es un asunto de vergüenza nacional, Señor Duque. Dice mucho que su gobierno sea incapaz de defender a personas de esta nobleza humana (cuyo único “error” es proteger el aire que respiramos todos) frente a grupos ilegales e inmorales.

Confiamos en usted y en su capacidad para revertir la situación. El mundo observa.

Atentamente,

Diego Finkel

Time for some service! What you have just read is a letter I sent via email to the President of Colombia, Mr Iván Duque. You will notice it is written in Spanish which collides with the general pattern of this CAS portfolio (I forced myself to do it this way to keep my English from getting too rusty), but I thought it would be better this way since at the end of the day whoever receives this letter will be a fellow Spanish speaker. 

Jani García is an environmental activist who fights against corporations and economic interests in a country which isn’t precisely a bulwark of safety, Colombia. She has been threatened several times but has managed to become one of the ten cases that are being supported by Amnesty International in 2020 through the “Write for Rights” platform.

I chose to research her case in particular because the environmental fight has always called my attention. I certainly think this activity has helped me to make good progress in Learning Outcome #6. I have learnt of the perilous situation some activists are in and also their heroism in continuing their fight just because their principles oblige them to. Truly fascinating people. All my support for Jani.