Spotted on flickr, Cambridge students formed a human Amnesty candle to protest against Guantanamo.
I was at work yesterday, so couldn’t go to the demo outside the US Embassy. There’s a nice set of photos posted in the Amnesty International UK photostream on flickr.
The November Amnesty book sale is behind us now and the total take was £3,250 last night. Slightly down on previous years, but our total for 2007 is over £12,000 – a phenomenal amount for two sales organised by a small number of very dedicated volunteers. Many thanks to everyone involved. We’ll be back in June 2008 to sell a fresh batch of books.
Slave Britain is an exhibition of photos, by Panos Pictures, illustrating the reality of the modern trade in human beings, 200 years after the slave trade was legally abolished in Britain. Blackheath & Greenwich Amnesty International will be displaying the photos in Lewisham Library from this Saturday (24th November) until 10th December.
The end of November will also see the opening of the new Atlantic Worlds gallery at the Maritime Museum. This new gallery deals with, among other thing, the triangular trade in African slaves.
We made over £9,000 in June, but we still have thousands of books left to sell. Come and buy some books. We can’t store unsold books, so anything left at the end of the day will get dumped in a skip.
You can get the flyer from flickr, and a full event listing on upcoming.
£8,890.96 – the total take from yesterday’s book sale. Our highest total, ever! And this year we were actually turning donations down, since we had more books than we could handle.
Many thanks to everyone who got involved, particularly everyone who gave up their evenings and weekends over the last four weeks to get all this together.
There are many high quality books still left unsold. We’ll put those on sale later in the year. Tentative date for the second 2007 sale is 17th November.
Saturday 16th June 2007
Church of the Ascension, Dartmouth Row, Blackheath
Thousands of new and used books at low, low prices.
Paul Eagle, from the Amnesty UK Business Team, kindly came down to Blackheath on Tuesday night and gave a talk about the Business & Human Rights campaign. Here are the notes from the evening, pasted straight from our newsletter.
I’ve been reading Amnesty’s new report on the internet and freedom of expression in China. The specific focus is the complicity of Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft in human rights abuses in China by facilitating and sanctioning government censorship.
The full report is available from the Amnesty UK website (you have to scroll down a bit to find a link to the PDF). It’s worth reading if you’re interested in business ethics and this whole Web 2.0 thing.
The November book sale is now behind us. Yay! I haven’t got the official total for the day, but it exceeded £5,000 (cf. £3,400 last year.) Many thanks to everyone who helped out, everyone who bought books and everyone who showed up at the end to take away unsold books for free. Last year we had to dispose of two tonnes of unsold books. This year, the church was picked clean by 6pm.
I’m now very tired and very hungover.
