Here is an interesting internationally-focused event in Seattle this
weekend.

Mary Anne

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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jean Buskin <bb369@...>
To: Undisclosed recipients: ;
Subject: Sat Sept 4, support human rights in Uganda

*****please forward*****

this seemed such an unusual opportunity, I hope folks in
the Seattle area will attend! Jean, bb369@...

A rare opportunity to learn about Uganda and to support
human rights and peace there:

Saturday Sept 4, 10 am, on the Side Walk Outside Seattle
Sheraton Towers, 1400 6th Avenue, Seattle; The President
of Uganda will address Ugandans inside the Convention
Center 11:45am - 2:00 pm. Our event is outside the
Convention Center and targets those attending and peace
loving residents of Seattle. Peace for all Ugandans,
Featuring, 10 am Peter Otika, Ugandan Peace Activist, USA,
on Northern Uganda; 10:30 am Moses Sebunya, Forum for
Democratic Change, Maine Chapter, USA, on Freedoms and
Liberties; 11 am Sam Akaki, International Lobby for Reform
in Uganda, UK, on Constitutionalism & Rule of Law; 11:30
am Anne Mugisha, Director Change Initiative, USA, on War
Crimes and Torture. The organizer writes "I would like to
let you know that we have come under overwhelming pressure
from Ugandan state agents and the US Embassy in Washington
DC to abandon the event but we are determined to be there
and hope that you will support us to expose the human
rights abuses, war crimes and 18 years of war in Northern
Uganda. Thanks a lot." info Ms. Anne Mugisha 240-472-0137
or abusingye@...

more information:

Anne Mugisha is a Ugandan opposition politician and human
rights activist living in exile in the USA following the
violent 2001 Presidential election in her country. She is
a Director of Change Initiative a transnational NGO that
seeks to create awareness about human rights abuses in
Uganda and advocates of multiparty democracy in her
country.

Peter Otika is a Ugandan student activist at the University
of Pittsburgh. Also exiled after the 2001 elections in
Uganda, Peter is involved with several African activist
organizations including Azania Heritage. He is from
Northern Uganda an area that has known no peace for the
last 18 years.

Sam Akaki is the Director of International Lobby for Reform
in Uganda a UK based NGO that lobbies UK and European
Parliamentarians and decision makers to pursue policies
that promote peace and human rights in Uganda.

Moses Sebunya is an American citizen of Ugandan descent.
He is an activist for democratic reforms and freedoms in
Uganda.

All the speakers are members of th Forum for Democratic
Change a new political organization in Uganda. The
organization was formed through the merger of three
political pressure groups and intends to challenge the
Movement government in the 2006 presidential and
parliamentary elections. The immediate objective of the
organization is to create a broad base of support within
Parliament and at the grass roots to stop the President
from pushing through a Constitutional Amendment that would
allow the incumbent to become President for life.