{"id":2313,"date":"2020-10-19T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/?post_type=article&#038;p=2313"},"modified":"2020-10-19T06:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T06:11:21","slug":"2313","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/article\/2313\/","title":{"rendered":"Wear It Purple Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wear It Purple Day the Amnesty Group raised awareness of LGBTQI human rights violations around the world, collecting hundreds of signatures on\u00a0petitions calling for an open inquiry into the death of Greek activist<span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0Zak Kostopoulos, and for the release from prison of\u00a0Russian LGBTQI activist Yulia Zvetkova.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span>\u200bThe Amnesty group continues its work\u00a0under rotating presidents Anja Clausius, Sascha Craney and Mahima Mehta\u200b\u00a0to inform and educate students about human rights, as well as engaging in activism in support of victims of human rights abuses. Two of our members, Luca Butterworth and Alejo Pintos-Lopez,\u00a0have also recently become members of NSW Amnesty&#8217;s Youth Leadership committee, organising events on a state-wide level.<\/p>\n<p>It is very encouraging to see our students looking outward and standing up for justice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Maddox<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wear It Purple Day the Amnesty Group raised awareness of LGBTQI human rights violations around the world, collecting hundreds of signatures on\u00a0petitions calling for an open inquiry into the death of Greek activist\u00a0Zak Kostopoulos, and for the release from prison of\u00a0Russian LGBTQI activist Yulia Zvetkova.\u00a0\u00a0\u200bThe Amnesty group continues its work\u00a0under rotating presidents Anja Clausius, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-2313","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}