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Greetings, colleagues.

I thought the following message might be of interest to some of you.

I deleted the attachment, because this listserve will not accept attachments. The key link in the attachment is http://shr.aaas.org/coalition/index.shtml.

Cheers,
David Kravitz

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Subject:	[APA] Launching a Coalition of Scientists interested in Human Rights. Please come to this free landmark meeting in DC Jan 14-16
Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:54:19 -0500
From:	Art Kendall <Art@DRKENDALL.ORG>
Reply-To:	Art Kendall <Art@DRKENDALL.ORG>
Organization:	Social Research Consultants
To:	DIV5@LISTS.APA.ORG

Please forward this invitation to potentially interested parties.

Representatives of scientific and human rights societies,  individual scientists  and human rights activists, and the media are invited

AAAS has worked with representatives of a wide variety of scientific societies  to  form a coalition to help scientists become involved with Human Rights.These societies ranged from all-volunteer small organizations like CASPA to large organizations with large staffs like American Psychological, Am. Chemical,  Am. Physical, and Am. Statistical.

The attached invitation has links to see what the coalition is about, the agenda for the launch, and how to register for the meeting.  It is necessary to register to facilitate logistics such as meeting space and amounts of food.

This is a unique opportunity for scientists from physical, behavioral, social, and other sciences to work together and to work with human rights activists and organizations.

Also, at the
shr.aaas.org
page there is a link where scientists of all kinds can volunteer to help with human rights activities. Also, human rights organizations and activists can request volunteers on this page

To get to the AAAS entrance from the 12th Street exit of the Metro Center station go the remainder of the block to H Street (North toward New York Avenue).  The entrance will be diagonally across the intersection.

Art Kendall
President
Capital Area Social Psychological Association