Members of South Portland High School’s Amnesty International chapter heading for New York city Friday for the human rights event called Get On The Bus (GOTB).

Now in its 13th year, GOTB is the largest volunteer-organized Amnesty International event in the country. The South Portland High School, Amnesty Chapter will join more than 1,000 Amnesty International activists, primarily students, from more than 10 states in a series of demonstrations at foreign consulates and United Nations missions. They will protest human rights abuses in Myanmar, call for the extradition of two Sudanese men charged with war crimes in Darfur, demand justice for murdered journalists in Sri Lanka and victims of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, and call for the immediate and unconditional release of Libyan dissident Fathi el-Jahmi.

The event gives high school and college students an opportunity to make their voices heard on some of the world’s most pressing human rights concerns. For more information about Get On The Bus, log on to www.gotb.org.