Human Rights Action Center

The Human Rights Action Center was founded by Jack Healey, human rights activist
and pioneer. An effective and innovative leader in the human rights movement for 60
years, Jack helped move the topic of human rights from closed-door diplomatic
negotiations to widespread awareness, public debate, and direct citizen action.
Colleagues credit him with making human rights a major focus of governments,
advocacy organization, and individuals around the world.

Called ‘Mr. Human Rights‘ by U.S. News and World Report, Jack brought human rights
to the global stage by his creative use of media and enlistment of world-class musical
talent as advocates and spokespersons as Executive Director of Amnesty International
USA for 12 years.

Our Mission

The Human Rights Action Center (HRAC) is a voice for the voiceless and an advocate
for human rights for all of the world. HRAC partners with leaders in the creative arts
world (music, theater, film, written word) to focus awareness on areas of critical
importance in the struggle for human rights and lend a hand to some of the less-
publicized cases of human rights abuse and neglect.

We welcome involvement on all levels and look forward to many more voices in the
chorus calling for human freedoms. One way this can be achieved is through our
initiatives to have the Universal Declaration of Human Rights printed in all passports.
Please see the Support HRAC page for more information about helping in the work.

Campaign to Print the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into Passports -- Fewer
than 5% of the world knows the Universal Declaration of Human Rights exists. Human
Rights Action Center asks governments to acknowledge its existence and pronounce
their commitment to uphold these basic human rights by including the
Declaration in all passports. Please WRITE A LETTER of this affect, asking your
senator, representatives and the White House to include the UDHR in all US
passports. If the United States Government were to do this, it would send a good
signal to the rest of the world that we intend to live by international standards and
would signal that the new government is quite serious about protecting the rights
of all people. All it takes to get this done is a presidential order. It doesn't need any
new legislation.

I Will, Will you?

FREEDOM CAMPAIGN FOR LEONARD PELTIER

Leonard Peltier was a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), which
promotes Native American rights. In 1975, during a confrontation involving AIM
members, two FBI agents were shot dead. Peltier was convicted of their murders,
but has always denied killing the agents.

Leonard Peltier has been in jail for over 40 years now. The trial that sent him to jail
for two life sentences was flawed. Amnesty International said so immediately and
was joined by other human rights groups and activists. While special agents
Cooler and Williams died that day, Leonard Peltier did not do the killings. A major
confrontation did go on for quite a while between the FBI and the American Indian
Movement. Many Indians were lost in this period.

Massive support has come from the communities of film, stage and spiritual
leadership and tribal leadership across the world. Our goal is simple and it is to
ask for clemency, pure and simple. We are not arguing the legal case. We are
asking from President Trump for clemency for Leonard Peltier. We feel he
has suffered long enough and it is the right of every American to ask for clemency
by the Constitution. Thus, we are mobilizing to show the POTUS that there is a
massive support for clemency for Peltier, both in the Indian communities and
tribes as well as the American people.

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