Press Advisory
286 Commercial St., Manchester, NH 03101
603-624-6300
contact David Scannell (x169)
mansd.org
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286 Commercial St., Manchester, NH 03101 |
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Students from Central High School’s Amnesty International chapter are
gearing up for their annual pilgrimage to New York City Fri., April 11 for
the human rights event called Get On The Bus (GOTB).
Now in its thirteenth year, GOTB is the largest volunteer-organized
Amnesty International event in the country. Central students will join
more than 1,000 Amnesty International activists, primarily students, from
more than 10 states in a series of demonstrations at foreign consulates
and United Nations missions.
The students will make a whirlwind trip, leaving Manchester at 6 a.m. and
returning at midnight.
They will protest human rights abuses in Myanmar, call for the extradition
of two Sudanese men charged with war crimes in Darfur, demand justice for
murdered journalists in Sri Lanka and victims of the Union Carbide
disaster in Bhopal (India), and call for the immediate and unconditional
release of Libyan dissident and Fathi el-Jahmi. Before the
demonstrations, GOTB participants will attend a speaker’s panel, where
experts will shed light on the issues for which the participants will
demonstrate.
GOTB gives high school and college students from all over the Northeast an
opportunity to make their voices heard on some of the world’s most
pressing human rights concerns. In the past, activists have demonstrated
against China’s imprisonment of Tibetan nuns and democracy advocates,
Nigeria’s execution of human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, and
discrimination and violence towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
(LGBT) citizens in Jamaica.
Central’s Amnesty chapter is one of the 1,500 in the US. For more
information about Get On The Bus: [ http://www.gotb.org
]www.gotb.org
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WHO: Amnesty International activists from across the Northeast,
including Central High School students
WHEN: Friday, April 11, 2008
WHAT: Speakers’ Panel: St. Bartholomew's Church, 109 E. 50th St,
11:00am-12:45pm
Demonstrations at:
The Libyan Mission to the UN: 48th St and 2nd Ave, 2:00pm-2:35pm
The Sudanese Mission to the UN: 47th St and 2nd Ave, 2:40pm-3:15pm
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (Myanmar protest): 47th St and 1st Ave,
3:20pm-3:55pm
The Sri Lankan Mission to the UN: 41st St and 3rd Ave, 4:25pm-5:00pm
Side Action: Indian Consulate: 64th St and 5th Ave, time = 1:05pm-1:40pm
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