DFL’s participation in a Human Rights Day
11/27/2005
If you can forward the following message to your lists, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks!
Donna Cassutt
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Friends:
In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly recognized the equal and inalienable rights accorded to every human being by adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/eng.htm). The Declaration calls upon individuals and institutions to promote respect for human rights and to secure their recognition and implementation through education. International Human Rights Day is marked every year on 10 December, to recognize the anniversary of the Declaration’s adoption. Various events take place worldwide to mark this anniversary. At our last State Central Committee meeting, we passed a resolution which included the Minnesota DFL’s participation in a Human Rights Day event. The Minnesota DFL is co-sponsoring an event on December 10, 2005 at St. Joan of Arc Church in South Minneapolis. I include details below as well as an a! ttached flyer. Please feel free to circulate this among your email lists and to print and pass out flyers for this event. If you receive this in digest form and do not receive the attachment, email me at and I will be happy to send it to you in a separate message. I hope you can join us. There will also be events sponsored in Rochester and Duluth I believe, in recognition of International Human Rights Day, and I will forward information about those events on this list as I receive them.
Donna Cassutt, Associate Chair
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
WHEN: Saturday, December 10, 2005
TIME: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: St. Joan of Arc Church
4537 3rd Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN
WHAT: A panel of speakers followed by workshops on how to organize around human rights.
Panel Includes:
AUDREY THAYER: organizer and member of the White Earth Reservation, works with the Minnesota ACLU as part of the Greater Minnesota Racial Justice Project
FATHER CAMPO ELIAS: from Colombia, is the former director of the Social Ministries office of the Diocese in Putumayo, Colombia. He is in the U.S. on asylum due to threats on his life.
KEITH ELLISON: DFL State Representative for Senate District 58B and a strong voice in favor of basic human rights, from North Minneapolis to hurricane survivors in New Orleans.
GERARDO CAJAMARCA: also in exile in the U.S., a former worker for SINALTRAINAL (Coca-Cola union in Colombia), currently working on the Steelworker’s Global Justice Campaign.
JACK NELSON-PALLMEYER: Assistant Professor of Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas, host for the evening. Jack will connect the dots between local and international human rights as presented by the speakers on the panel. He will also speak on the topic: Torture Memos and Torture manuals: Continuity in U.S. Foreign Policy form the School of the Americas to Iraq.
Enjoy a pre-panel performance by Danza Mexica Cuautehmoc and the talent of spoken-word artists!
Co-sponsored by Witness for Peace, Upper Midwest, Minnesota DFL, USWA Associate Member Fight Back 05 Campaign.