Possible Guest Speaker

[Ayesha Islam]

Salam girls,

I met the Vice Chair of Amnesty International Japan at a recent Amnesty event I attended, and she seemed really interested in high school Amnesty groups and offered to come visit Bronx Science's Amnesty as a guest speaker! But she travels a lot, so she needs to get back to me on which Thursdays she is available in New York City. In the meantime, we need to figure out what topic she could talk about. She said, "I could give a talk on the human rights situation in Japan, or something more specific. Death penalty is one option, but other hot issues include the recent "secrecy bill" that allows the govt to hide whatever information it thinks approprete, and the constitution revision draft by the ruling party, the LDP which strikes out most of the human rights related parts from the current Japanese constitution. The conservatives think that the concept of human rights is "western" and was imposed on the Japanese people against their will after the WWII. It might be interesting to discuss this cultural aspect of human rights. So, let me know what your members find interesting. I could give a brief introductory talk on the topic, and we can open up for discussion. " What do you guys think she should talk about?

- Ayesha

[Tahirah Baksh]

The secrecy bill sounds really interesting!!!!!!
Death penalty we can do in a separate meeting where we discuss other countries as well
but she seems really into the secrecy bill, we've never had a meeting about that, and Japan is really cool nation to discuss because we normally talk about US, Europe, or Middle East!

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[Saima Haque]

this is a great idea guys! ask her for her February schedule?

[Ayesha Islam]

GUYS GUYS GUYS

So if you remember earlier this year we were possibility going to get this woman from Japan to come talk to our Amnesty group??? Well she emailed me today and told me the days she seems like she's free! 

"It seems like I will be available any Thursday from April 17 to May 15. Does any day work for your club?

During one of the trips, I visited the Amnesty Nairobi office in Kenya. I'd love to talk about Amnesty activities in Kenya and some human rights programs at primary/high schools. I took many pictures, and it will be nice if your school room has a facility to show the slides on computer. Does this sound like a good idea?"

THE PROBLEM IS THAT the days she seems like she's free are in the middle of break to basically the middle of AP's.......................so I don't think we're even going to have meetings these days. Can someone confirm this?

Also, do you guys like the topic she's going to talk about or no?

[Saima Haque]

Yes I like her topic. Since she is offering to come I don't think we should miss out on this opportunity. AP Exams are may... lets ask her to come on April 27. 

[Ayesha Islam]

April 27 is sunday...

[Mst Sumaiya Islam]

Do you mean April 24?

this is a really good idea though yay!! and I like the topic

April 27 is sunday...

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