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Atlanta Unites for Human Rights

American Friends Service Committee, African American Human Rights Foundation, Atlanta Friends Meeting, Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition-Atlanta, Nuclear Watch South, Georgia WAND and Amnesty USA - Southern Region

In partnership with WRFG, International Action Center, 50 Artists…, Women Watch Afrika, Human Rights Atlanta, WonderRoot, Agnes Scott Living Wage Campaign, Amnesty International, Agnes Scott College Chapter and the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

Invite you to Celebrate

The Peace Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday, January 14, 2010
Reception, Speakers, Performers, Concert
6PM - Midnight!

@ The Atlanta Friends Meeting meetinghouse
701 West Howard Avenue
Decatur, Georgia 30030

Join us as we lift up the message of peace in King’s speech Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence delivered 4 April 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City. King spoke directly to “…[T]hose who ask the question, "Aren't you a civil rights leader?" and thereby mean to exclude me from the movement for peace…. Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.”

The Peace Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

FEATURING:
*Social Justice Marketplace (find & join community groups & campaigns)
*“Beyond Vietnam” Youth Writing Contest winners

Guest Speaker Constance Curry and Performances from
Paula Larke, Soul Country, Bridging the Gap, Ken J. Martin,
Chauncey Beaty, Stephen Wing,k Miguel Paul & Itopia,
and Pacha Mamas

Contact Alice Lovelace for event information and volunteer opportunities!
ALovelace@afsc.org or 404-819-7863

Come for the Reception, Performances and Speakers stay for the Peace Concert and Dance!

From Dec. 3rd - Dec. 10th 2009
Please Sign
the Atlanta Resolution of Remembrance

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
7 PM to 9 PM
at Teasley Lecture Hall in the Bullock Science Center
of Agnes Scott College
Decatur, Georgia

event on facebook

panelists will discuss the following topics
- Immigrant Detention - Refugee Women Empowerment - Transgender Rights - Police Violence
- Transportation Rights - Homeless Rights -

panel will be moderated by
Ian Fletcher, professor, Georgia State University

panelists include
Sumaya Karimi, Refugee Women's Network (RWN) - Xochitl Bervera, BLOCS
Anton Flores, ALTERNA - Adia Damayanti, Someone Cares

this event is supported by
ACLU of Georgia, Georgia Detention Watch, International Center of Atlanta, 9to5 National Association of Working Women, Coalition for the People's Agenda, Esmail Khoi Foundation, Progressive American Iranian Committee, Georgia Equality, Refugee Women's Network, ALTERNA, TILTT, Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition - Atlanta Chapter, International Action Center, Amnesty Atlanta, The Cobb Immigrant Alliance, Gentle Spirit Christian Church, The First Existentialist Social Justice Guild

directions

Panel Discussion is at Teasley Lecture Hall, in the Bullock Science Center, of Agnes Scott College.
From the parking facility, cross North McDonough and continue walking East.
At the far end of the quad when you reach on the near side of Alston Student Center, turn right, going South.
The Bullock Science Center is now straight ahead, backed against East Dougherty Street.
Teasley Lecture Hall is located in the lower level of the Bullock Science Center.

directions to Agnes Scott College

MARTA
Take the East-West line to Decatur Station. Exit the terminal on the Church Street side and head south (toward the corner of Trinity and Church). Use the pedestrian tunnel to pass beneath the railroad tracks; you will merge at the College Avenue entrance to campus. Continue walking South to reach Bullock Science Center, located on E. Dougherty Street. Walking this direction you will pass the Alston Student Center and Chapel.

By Car From I-75 (mileage approximate)

* Take I-75/85 to the Freedom Parkway exit.
* Continue on Freedom Parkway (at the fork, bear to the left) until it ends at Ponce de Leon Avenue. (1.9 miles)
* Turn right and follow W. Ponce de Leon towards Decatur.
* At the traffic light immediately following arched railroad trestle, bear to the right as W. Ponce de Leon forks to the right. (2.8 miles)
* Turn right onto W. Trinity Place. (0.5 miles)
* Turn right onto N. McDonough Street. (0.6 miles)
* Follow N. McDonough cross over the railroad to Agnes Scott College. (0.3 miles)

By Car From the North on I-85 (mileage approximate)

* Take I-85 to the Clairmont Road exit.
* Turn left onto Clairmont Road.
* Turn right onto Commerce Drive. (4.9miles) (Disregard directional sign pointing left; continue right)
* Turn left onto W. Trinity Place. (0.4 miles)
* Turn right onto N. McDonough Street. (0.1 miles)
* Follow N. McDonough Street over the railroad to Agnes Scott College. (0.3 miles)
* Parking Garage is on your right just past over the tracks.

By Car From the East on I-285 or I-20 (mileage approximate)

* Take I-285 to Stone Mountain Freeway, Highway 78 exit.
* Go west on Highway 78 (Street name changes to Scott Boulevard.)
* Turn left onto Clairmont Road. (4.1 miles)
* Turn right onto Commerce Drive. (0.7 miles) (Disregard directional sign pointing left; continue right)
* Turn left onto W. Trinity Place. (0.4 miles)
* Turn right onto N. McDonough Street. (0.1 miles)
* Follow N. McDonough Street over the railroad to Agnes Scott College. (0.3 miles)
* Parking Garage is on your right just past over the tracks.

Stonewall 40: Atlanta

See: www.Stonewall40Atlanta.com - Stonewall 40th focus site

See Atlanta PRIDE: http://atlantapride.org/stonewall.html - 21 officially sanctioned events

We join in support and solidarity with all those who seek equal rights in our society. We join in supporting the LGBT Community of Atlanta and Beyond.

Transgender - Bi - Lesbian - Gay

Stonewall 1969-2009:
Transgender Rights Now !

"Stonewall. For forty years it has been the iconic moment in Gay history: It was the turning point - people who had felt oppressed suddenly felt empowered.

Before then, gay activists hoped that if they were quiet and nice and polite and tried really hard to look very, very mainstream that people would stop beating them up.

It wasn't working. Gay men, lesbians, and transgender men and women were harrassed, arrested, fired, forced into psychiatric treatment and generally intimidated to stay closeted." ... read on at: http://www.stonewall40atlanta.com

Stonewall 40th Anniversary: Recognizing and celebrating an anniversary of key events in the movement for the recognition of equal rights for all -- independant of their sexual orientation.

We seek and support Equal Rights for All !

Join the Atlanta Stonewall 40th discussion group here:
http://groups.google.com/group/stonewall-40-atlanta?lnk=

Eleanor Roosevelt was the President and Chair of the Commission on Human Rights
... the group which drafted the UDHR