It takes three minutes to write a letter, sign your name, put it in an envelope and put a stamp on it.
Life is much more important than that.
Karen and many of her fellow students at Elmira Notre Dame High School have taken on such causes as unjust imprisonment and capital punishment. Much of their activist efforts have taken place through their Amnesty International chapter at the high school. Amnesty also denounces the death penalty, and torture and cruel treatment of prisoners in the United States as well as other countries. The group, based in London, England, was founded in 1961 and has more than one million members in 162 countries. The letters are written by Notre Dame students to government officials in an effort to get prisoners released.