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Amnesty International Local Group 15,
Concord Area, Massachusetts

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Amnesty International is a global movement of millions of people demanding human rights for all people, no matter who they are or where they are.  

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Amnesty Group 15 is a chapter of Amnesty International, based in the communities in and around Concord, Massachusetts. We work to protect and promote human rights locally, nationally, and throughout the world.

 

Monthly Meetings

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We meet on the third Tuesday of the month at 7PM. If you would like information about Group 15, please write to us at amnestygroup15@gmail.com.
 

​A typical meeting will include: an urgent action, advocacy for our Prisoner of Conscience case, updates on criminal justice reform, the state of the death penalty in the U.S., Community Partnership with Dignity in Asylum, actions centered around immigration reform, and most recently LGBTQ+ rights.

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Upcoming meetings:

  • Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 7:00 - 9:00 PM - Join us in person in Concord, MA. 

  • Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 7:00 - 9:00 PM - Join us in person in Concord, MA.
    Write to amnestygroup15@gmail.com for info.    ​​

 

 

Advocacy in Massachusetts:  We have been contacting our Massachusetts legislators asking for their support on bills that protect people who are vulnerable and at risk.

 

Urgent Action letters: We wrote letters for a disappeared Mexican Indigenous lawyer and human rights defender and a threatened Columbian environmental defender of the Amazon. We also sent letters to officials, here and in Vietnam, for Dang Dinh Bach, a Vietnamese lawyer and climate rights activist who has been jailed since 2002 (See www.standwithbach.org/).

 

Federal death penalty: We wrote letters & postcards to President Biden urging him to commute federal death sentences (Note: Pres.Biden commuted 37-of 40-federal death sentences)

Our Recent Activities

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