March Update

It's early March and we haven't posted since late January! We have recently been focusing on the Uganda Night Commuters as you know, and we wrote letters to the ambassador. We also put up a bulletin board about this campaign. American Apparel, the company that we got our blank tee-shirts from, has decided to donate the tee-shirts. They are very exited to know that there is a middle school Amnesty group. There for we raised $195 for Amnesty! Thank you for your orders. When we return after March break, we will have another meeting. I am interested to know if anyone actually reads this blog. If you do then open your email right now and email colekink@gmail.com!

T-Shirts and stuff

We had a meeting today. Madame Cole introduced our next project by showing us a slide show about the Uganda Night Commuters. The Uganda Night Commuters are children in Uganda who travel in the night to non governmental safe camps that protect them from being abducted by the rebel group named The Lord's Resistance Army. The children are drugged and given guns which they use to shoot eniemies with. These children are called child soldiers. Next week we will write letters to the president of Uganda protesting these practices. Check out the link: amnestyusa.org/aikids.


We will soon be sending an order form around to the homerooms so you can take them home and order t-shirts with an awesome logo for our club, made from non-sweatshop labor! Check out the order form below:

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL T-SHIRT ORDER FORM

 Short sleeve t-shirt

Kid sizes 8-12

$18

Quantity: ______

Size(s): ______

 Short sleeve t-shirt

Men’s sizes XS – XL

$18

Quantity: _________

Size(s): _________

 Short sleeve v-neck t-shirt

Women’s sizes XS – XL

$18

Quantity: _____

Size(s): _____

NAME: _________________________________

GRADE: __________

Please attach a check for the total amount of your order made out to: Karen Cole

We will order the t-shirts without the design from American Apparel, a sweatshop-free business based in Los Angeles, CA. You can view the plain t-shirts and check the size chart on line at americanapparel.net. Jessica Helfand (Malcolm’s mom) will be silk-screening the shirts with the assistance of a few Amnesty club members with Harry Rich’s winning design (with Seamus’s and Dylan’s help). If you have any questions, please call Madame Cole at school or at home: 232-6151, or send an email to kcole@berkshirecountryday.org.

That Went Great

Today ,on Jan. 19 2007, four of the Amnesty International @ BCD members went up to the 2S campus to tell all of the High Schoolers about our petition. The four AI members that went up to 2S were, Dylan Cole-Kink, Ginger Ciaburri, Nikki Speranzo ,and myself. Lets all cross our fingers (and our toes) and hope that after we get a bunch of signatures from the High Schoolers we will get a message through to the Ethiopian Goverment about what our school thinks about what they are doing to Mesfin Woldemariam!!!

Welcome Back

Hope you all had an exellent vacation. Tommorow (Wednsday the 3rd) is our next meeting. We are hoping to make t-shirts as a fundraiser. Malcolm's mom has a box of blank t-shirts. We will go around to each grade and find out how many we need to make, and hopfully we'll be able to silk screen them in our meeting tommorow. We will be selling them at a price of around $5-$7, but that is to be decided.

Happy Holidays

Happy hollidays to every one at BCD. As you are enjoying your loot and having a wonderful meal, take a moment to think about all those prisoners who are locked up, mistreated, and starving. It's not to late, you can still send any of the prisoners a holiday card. Just follow the link that I included in the post about our second meeting. Once again Happy Holidays and have a very good new year.

Great news!

Our group and blog is on the BCD website in the news section. Just so you know, the site should give credit to Madame Cole, Malcolm Drenttel, Dylan Cole-Kink, and Rody Lipson. Click here to see the update.

Mailing list

Finally! With some trouble, i have been able to set up a mailing list for our Amnesty group. If you would like to be a part of this, email me (colekink@gmail.com), and i will add your email or your parent's email to the subscribers list. When you are added, you will recieve a welcome message explaining the purpose of this mailing list and how to use it. The list will be similar to this blog, but you will be emailed instead of having to visit this site.

Thank you!