solidarity

Art for Rights

Event Date: 
10/12/2014 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Venue: 
Double Elephant Print Workshop, Exeter Phoenix, Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LS http://www.doubleelephant.org.uk/contact_us/

Create and write solidarity cards for people suffering human rights abuses.

Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign sees thousands of letters and cards posted to support families affected and calls for justice for prisoners of conscience.

On 10th December, International Human Rights Day, artist Catherine Cartwright is running two creative card-making and writing workshops. Drop in and make one or many cards, write your messages of support and leave your donation to cover postage and materials.

Suggested donation £2 per card. Any surplus donations will be...

Art for Rights

Event Date: 
10/12/2014 - 10:30am to 12:30pm
Venue: 
Hope Hall, Hope Road, Heavitree, Exeter EX2 5HT http://www.hopehallarts.com/contact-us.html

Create and write solidarity cards for people suffering human rights abuses.

Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign sees thousands of letters and cards posted to support families affected and calls for justice for prisoners of conscience.

On 10th December, International Human Rights Day, artist Catherine Cartwright is running two creative card-making and writing workshops. Drop in and make one or many cards, write your messages of support and leave your donation to cover postage and materials.

Suggested donation £2 per card. Any surplus donations will be...

London: Hundreds protest in solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikers

Authored by JAMIII
Posted: Tue, 10/30/2012 - 4:24pm

(NewsPoint) –More than one hundred people disrupted roads in and around Westminster on Tuesday in solidarity with the 700 Kurdish prisoners on hunger strike in over 50 different prisons.

Among those on hunger strike are several leaders of the chief Kurdish party, the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). They are accused of ties to the outlawed rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has for decades sought autonomy for the Kurds.

The detainees are surviving on salted or sweetened water and vitamins alone in a strike that has gained momentum since it began with...