Annual Review 2011
Girton Amnesty Society The primary aim of the Girton Amnesty group has been to keep up awareness and campaigning activity in Girton where many people are less likely to take the time to go into town for letter-writing sessions. We have held letter-writing sessions and petitionsignings in Girton to provide an easy way for people to get involved. Sending emails to Girton has also proved an excellent way of increasing interest, as people are then able to keep up to date and to take action in their own time around their busy schedules. A recent success has been the large amount of interest in an anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda which many Girton students signed petitions and wrote letters to oppose. The bill was fortunately removed from the Ugandan parliamentary agenda and it was brilliant to see so many people including Girton students taking an interest. As many people do not believe Amnesty’s methods to be useful or effective, it was an excellent event to show people the power of their action. Now, a new group is being set up to carry on the Girton Amnesty group and we hope it will continue to maintain awareness and involvement in key human rights issues. The main difficulty with Amnesty is to convince people that taking the time to write really does make a difference but we have managed to show people, at least to some extent, that it can work. Hopefully the new Girton group will be able to continue this and increase awareness even more. Madeleine Seale, President
Girton Amateur Dramatic Society (GADS) This year, Girton has been treated to an amazing range and variety of drama. This year’s drama was started in spectacular form by James Bond the Pantomine, shown at the end
An Inspector Calls in The Stanley Library.
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