In attendance: Jeff, Barbara, Bob, Frank, Brendan, Bill, Tilo, Marsha
NOTE: Meeting conducted online via JitsiIntroductions
Jeff: Summary of the letters that Bill prepared and sent to the group e-mail list
- Pipka Refugee Shelter Faces Imminent Closure (Greece): UA 152.20
- Free Families Kept in Immigration Detention (USA): UA 116.20
- Forced Eviction Leaves 3,000 People Homeless (Kenya): UA 151.20
- UPDATED 15 OCT: LGBT+ Activist Victoria Biran Released (Belarus): UA 150.20
- 300 Returning Migrant Workers Arrested (Bangladesh): UA 131.20
Barbara: Last week's Amnesty call about how Trump signed Savannah's Act into law: reforms protocols about missing and murdered Native American women
Jeff: Write for Rights!
- quotes from previous Write for Rights cases that
- In 2020, only seven Write for Rights cases: We'll do half in November and half in December
Bob: Instead of annual regional meeting, will have a virtual meeting instead November 13-15
Jeff: What have you had on your mind lately?
- Jeff: book The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt), film The Social Dilemma (Netflix)
- Marsha: Vote Forward
- Bill: film The Torture Letters (NYT article about this)
- Tilo: state of current U.S. Supreme Court (Jeff: We the People by Erwin Chemerminsky)
- Barbara: book Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad)
- Bob: teaching online
- Frank: current political scene
Next meeting (online): Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Thanks for the minutes, Bill
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