Letter Writing for Nicaragua with Amaya Coppens
Thu, Jul 25
|New York University
Join UWC NYC and Amaya Coppens for a gathering to write letters advocating divestment from the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. Anyone is welcome to come in person or join the video conference remotely, but please register beforehand so you can enter the NYU building or get the video conference link.
Time & Location
Jul 25, 2019, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
New York University, New York, NY, USA
Guests
About The Event
The UWC Board of New York City is organizing a letter writing campaign to stop funding of the Daniel Ortega dictatorship in Nicaragua. As some of you know, Amaya Coppens (LPC '14) is a political activist that was jailed on 2 September 2018 and released on 11 June 2019 by the Ortega regime. She will be joining us via Skype!
Daniel Ortega became president of Nicaragua in 2007 and since then he has concentrated power on himself and his close circle. The congress and courts are now controlled by him and his wife/vice-president Rosario Murillo. In April 2018 massive demonstrations erupted across Nicaragua triggered by a reform to social security benefits. These demonstrations were drawn to a close after the government killed more than 300 members of the opposition and jailed about the same number of political activists, including Amaya.
The workshop is on Thursday, July 25th @ 7pm at…