“Write for Rights'” Mẹ Nấm AKA Mother Mushroom Freed

Although Norfolk County Amnesty International was unable to participate in this year’s Write for Rights, there is good news about one of the cases.  Vietnamese blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, also known as Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) was freed in October and is presently living in exile in the United States.

Our peers in Old Greenwich, CT noted Mẹ Nấm’s case was removed from the Write for Rights’ docket “possibly due to the threat of the letter-writing campaign, Helen Rasmussen said.  ‘They get thousands of letters…It’s an international campaign. They come from all over.'”

Mother Mushroom’s move to Houston, TX comes following a prison sentence for documenting human rights abuses in Vietnam.

Photo credit:  U.S. Department of State – https://www.state.gov/s/gwi/iwoc/2017/bio/index.htm

Department of Homeland Security’s Actions May Hurt Hondurans

As of January 5, 2020, the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of Honduran immigrants to the United States will end, via order of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

This decree not only is potentially harmful to those Hondurans covered under TPS, but also their (US citizen) children. Honduras is a Central American country which has several ongoing human rights problems such as:

🇭🇳 . Lack of protection for environmental defenders.

🇭🇳Murders of LGBT people.

🇭🇳 No consequences for men who abuse women.

We here at Norfolk County Amnesty International (Unchartered) will continue to follow this and other immigration issues.

“Is This America?” Co-Founder of Sacred Stone Camp Recalls Dog Attack on Native Americans

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard is one of the human rights defenders listed on Amnesty USA‘s site.

Mining Awareness +

http://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2016/9/21/watch_is_this_america_co_founder
“WATCH: “Is This America?” Co-Founder of Sacred Stone Camp Recalls Dog Attack on Native Americans
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
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LADONNA BRAVE BULL ALLARD co-founder of the Sacred Stone Camp that launched on her land on April 1 to resist the Dakota Access pipeline.

Standing Rock Sioux tribal historian LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, a co-founder of the Sacred Stone Camp that launched on her land on April 1 to resist the Dakota Access pipeline, recalls the day security guards working for the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray. She says construction continues despite a court ruling asking the company to stop, and describes current organizing efforts at the camp.

Watch our previous interview with Allard: “Standing Rock Sioux Historian: Dakota Access Co. Attack Comes on Anniversary of Whitestone Massacre”: http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/8/standing_rock_sioux_historian_dakota_access

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