11/29/97
• Museum of Cultural Diversity Opening Reception in Carson. Remarks and pledging thanks to Tracy Gore!

12/1/97
• Ali Azizi and Tracy Gore! snag the signature of California State Assembly Member Sheila Keuhl (D-Santa Monica).
• UDHR50 Campaign Briefing at the Quarterly Training and Support Meeting. (Greater LA Area Development)

12/7/97
• Talk on UDHR given by Martha Ter Maat for Sine Nomine, young adults group at All Saints Church, Pasadena. (Group 22 Pasadena)
• Tabling at Ventura Street Fair (Group 452 Ventura)

12/10 (Human Rights Day)
• Video Night, "Forsaken Cries: The Story of Rwanda" with Professor H. Victor Condé speaking on the International Tribunal at UC Irvine. Thanks to Norma Edwards for logistics and Jacques Kilchoer for goodies! (Group 178 Irvine)
• Holday card action and pledge-signing at Pasadena Higher Grounds coffeehouse. Larry Romans and Revae Moran get a hand for the set-up. (Group 22 Pasadena)
• Human Rights Day Tabling at the Bayshore Library in Long Beach (Group 175 Long Beach)
• Human Rights Day Candlelight Vigil at Irvine High School (Irvine High School Group)

12/12/97
• Assembly talk on UDHR by Tracy Gore! at Loyola High School, Los Angeles (Loyola High School Group)
• Tabling at Long Beach Farmers' Market (Group 175 Long Beach)

1/1/98
• Thanks to Larry Romans for setting up Southern California UDHR Campaign Web Site: http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~aigp22/scal/udhr50/home.html (Greater LA Area Development)

2/98
• UDHR display at Ventura Public Library, main branch. Co-sponsored with the United Nations Association and Bahais. (Group 452 Ventura)

2/1/98
• Area UDHR workshop at Caltech given by Martha Ter Maat Thanks to Tracy Gore! and Larry Romans for their help and to all the fabulous attendees! (Greater LA Area Development)

2/2/98
• Special thanks to Dylan Presman of the Southern California Working Group for the International Criminal Court for the pre-Symposium warm-up talk at the February GLAD meeting. (Greater LA Area Development)

2/7/98
• UDHR Prayer Flag Project at Villa Park Community Center Arts Program in Pasadena presented by Shanna Ingalsbee and Martha Ter Maat. (Group 22 Pasadena and Greater LA Area Development)

2/26/98
• Southern California Working Group Symposium on the International Criminal Court featuring David John Scheffer, US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, Richard Dicker, the Human Rights Watch Director of International Criminal Court, Elizabeth Farr, Prosecutor on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and Happy Mutesi, Rwandan refugee. (Greater LA Area Development)

2/28/98
• Forum on Sex Trafficking. Sandra Hunnicutt of Captive Daughters and Kathryn McMahon, Project Director, Project on Trafficked Women, Filipino-American Service Group discuss sex trafficking and Martha Ter Maat makes the UDHR link. Thanks to Norma Edwards for the AI Women's Human Rights Table. (Women's Human Rights Committee)

3/1/98
• Tabling and pledge signing on the Third Street Promenade. (Group 96 Santa Monica)

3/2/98
• Pledge table at Pasadena Ecumenical Council Banquet. "Desmond Tutu Signed! You Can Too!" (Group 22 Pasadena)
• Quarterly Training and Support Meeting presentation on CEDAW and girl-trafficking featuring guest speaker Sandra Hunnicutt of Captive Daughters with assist from Norma Edwards (Women's Human Rights Committee)

3/3/98
• Revae Moran and Martha Ter Maat presented the Prayer Flag Project activity at Night Basketball and Books, a program for at-risk youth in Pasadena. (Group 22 Pasadena)

3/5/98
• Presentation to Pasadena Arts Council on the Arts and the UDHR. They all signed pledges! Martha Ter Maat makes the pitch, but thanks to Joan Reyes for making the connection! (Group 22 Pasadena)

3/7/98
• Tabling at the California Teacher's Association Conference. Pushing pledges and UDHR curriculum materials to eager teachers. Thank you Revae, Juan, Samer, Rabih and Martha for table duty. Also special thanks to Anne Parris and Sushanna Ellington for coming down from the Bay Area for a great presentation (Greater LA Area Development and Human Rights Educator's Network - Western Region)
• The 13th Annual Great American Write-In at UC Irvine. Group 178 members joined forces with event sponsor Women For: Orange County, and the AIDS Services Foundation, O.C., ACLU, Friends of Harbors, Beaches & Parks, Human Options: Alternatives for Battered Women and Their Children, Kurdish National Congress, NOW, Common Cause, etc., for this writathon. (Group 178 Irvine)

3/8/98 (International Women's Day)
• Ventura group tabled at CalLutheran Women's Day event. (Group 452 Ventura)
• Prayer Flag Project presentation with discussion of bonded labor (modern slavery) to "Amistad" discussion group at All Saints Church in Pasadena (Group 22 Pasadena)

3/9/98
• Congressman Matthew "Marty" Martinez (D-CA) signs the pledge! In his letter to constituent Martha Ter Maat he writes: "Amnesty International is truly a champion of human rights which has earned the respect of virtually every Member of Congress. I'm therefore pleased to be able to participate in this worthwhile endeavor. I would also like to take this opportunity to commend you for your activism in promoting human rights." (Group 22 Pasadena)

3/21/98
• 50 for 50 comes to the AGM Ideas Fair! (Greater LA Area Development)

3/28/98
• Table at "Peace Day 98" -- a community event for various local non-profit organizations to come together for a celebration of life! Thanks to Olga Rodríguez and Tracy Gore! for tabling and getting UDHR pledges signed! (Group 614 Culver City and Greater LA Area Development)

4/1/98 - 4/30/98
• Pasadena Public Library display in Children's Room. Thanks to Saskia Feast for putting this together! (Group 22 Pasadena)

ON DECK:

4/98
• UDHR presentation at Monterey Park school by Saskia Feast (Group 22 Pasadena)

4/3/98
• Prayer Flag Project presentation to Pasadena Visual Arts Academy at Pasadena High. Special thanks to Justin McNeill of All Saints Church COLORS for his assistance with this presentation. (Group 22 Pasadena)

4/18/98
• Youth for Freedom Day at Chapman University. (Orange County Student Groups)