Saturday, July 01, 2006

Actions any time

The following actions can be taken anytime:

  • List of ideas here
  • More ideas from Amnesty International USA
  • Email: Urge Richmor Aviation to refrain from leasing planes for rendition operations
  • Email: Urge U.S. Authorities to End All Incommunicado and Secret Detention
  • Email: Close Guantánamo, Disclose the Rest
  • Email: Urge Congress to Establish Independent Commission to Investigate Detainee Abuse
  • Email: Conditions for Torture Persist in US Policy
  • Email: Urge your Representative to cosponsor and pass H.R. 952, the "Torture Outsourcing Prevention Act" and your Senator to cosponsor and pass S. 654, the "Convention Against Torture Implementation Act,"
  • Email: Demand a CIA Chief Who Upholds Torture Ban
  • Email: Petition Against Torture
  • Biblically based curriculum for adult education on the treatment of US detainees after 9/11.

Thursday, June 29, 2006

Radio

Location: Nashville, Tennesee (Radio Free Nashville 98.9 FM)
Activity: Radio show: Law & Disorder
Time: afternoon
Further details: Source

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Survivors of torture

Location: Washington D.C., B-340 Rayburn House Office Building,
Activity: Awards ceremony to honor survivors of torture
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m
Further details: Source

Monday, June 26, 2006

Big action day

Location: Washington, Vice President's house
Activity: Vigil
Time: 5.00 to 6.30 pm
Further details: WRRCAT website

Location: New York, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th street and First Avenue
Activity: Demonstration, Procession to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations to Call on Ambassador John Bolton to Join the International Consensus Against Torture
Time: 10.30 am meet, 11.00 am start, 12.00 - 1pm demonstration at US Mission to UN.
Further details: Source.

Activity: Lobby Day
Location: Location: Capitol Hill
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Further details: Torture Awareness registration.

Location: New York (WBAI 99.5 FM)
Activity: Radio show: Law & Disorder
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Further details: Radio show site

Location: Washington DC
Activity: 24-hour Vigil
Further details: Flyer; About the Mock Prison Cell that will be on display. Contact diortiz@tassc.org to participate; About planned civil disobedience; Source

Location: Washington DC
Activity: Be a Walking Billboard!
Further reading: Source. Contact to volunteer: harold@tassc.org

Activity: Speakers, music
Location: Minnesota, State Capitol Rotunda directions
Time: 11.30am
Further details: Source

Location: Minneapolis, Minneapolis Healing Center, 717 East River Road,
Activity: Tree planting
Time: 5.00pm
Further details: Flyer; Source

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Teach in, vigil

Location: L.A., Barnsdall Gallery Theater, 4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Activity: Speakers including James Yee
Time: 2:00 to 4:00pm (PDT)
Further details: PTVLA website

Location: New York, Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South.
Activity: Speakers including attorney representing 14 Yemeni prisoners at GTMO
Time: 6:00pm (EDT)
Further details: Source, Shut Down Guantanamo website, Contact 212-477-0351

Location: Clay, West Virginia (WYAP 101.7 FM)
Activity: Radio show: Law & Disorder
Further details: Radio show site; WYAP site

Location: Washington DC
Activity: Teach in
Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Location: Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave., NW,
Washington DC 20001
Further details: Teach in agenda; Source

Location: Field Park, Williamstown, Mass.
Activity: Vigil
Time: 2 - 2:45 pm.
Further details: Source, call Susan Matsui 413-458-9766 or the First United Methodist Church at 413-458-3183.

Friday, June 23, 2006

Call-in, movie, protest

Location: PA, Pittsburgh, Market Square.
Activity: Protest march (bring black hoods/orange jumpsuits)
Time: 12.00 pm - 1.00 pm
Further details: Source, jessica@pittsburghendthewar.org or 412-361-3022

Location: New York, Lincoln Plaza and Angelika Theater
Activity: Movie opens The Road to Guantanamo
Further details: Angelika New York, Lincoln Plaza Cinemas

Location: Anywhere
Activity: National Call-In Day
Further details: Talking Points; Source

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Movie discussion, slide-show

Location: PA, Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, 100 Porter Hall
Activity: Slide show presentation by Frida Berrigan, co-founder of Witness Against Torture.
Time: 7.00 pm
Further details: Source, jessica@pittsburghendthewar.org or 412-361-3022

Location: Nashville, Tennesee (Radio Free Nashville 98.9 FM)
Activity: Radio show: Law & Disorder
Time: Afternoon
Further details: Source

Location: New York
Activity: Movie and discussion The Road to Guantánamo
Time: 7:00 PM
Further details: Source Contact awalker@aclu.org

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Public discussion

Location: Washington , DC , Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Activity: Public dialogue including panel discussion on the
issue of torture
Further details: Source

Sunday, June 18, 2006

Panel discussion

Location: New York, The Riverside Church, Room 411 MLK
Activity: Panel discussion Torture, and the Religious Response
Time: 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Further details: Church website

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Seymour Hersh speaking

Location: Bethesda, River Road Unitarian Church, 6301 River Rd.
Activity: Conference, includes Senator Carl Levine, Seymour Hersh
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Further details: Flyer

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Panel discussion

Location: West Chester, Second Presbyterian Church, 114 S. Walnut St.
Activity: Panel discussion with AI, Quaker Initiative to End Torture, The Chester County Peace Movement.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Further details: source

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Teach in

Location: New York, CCR Conference Room
Activity: Teach in: Guantanamo
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Further details: Source; RSVP to ebetru@ccr-ny.org

Monday, June 05, 2006

Radio

Location: New York (WBAI 99.5 FM)
Activity: Radio show: Law & Disorder
Time: 10:00am - 11:00am
Further details: Radio show site

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Radio

Location: Clay, West Virginia (WYAP 101.7 FM)
Activity: Radio show: Law & Disorder
Further details: Radio show site; WYAP site

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Speakers

Location: First Presbyterian Church of LaGrange
Activity: Speakers and meetings
Time: June 2, 9:00 am -- Saturday, June 3, 12:00 pm
Further details: No2Torture; Registration; Snail mail registration; Email them for tips on getting there cheap

Friday, June 02, 2006

Speakers, forum

Location: First Presbyterian Church of LaGrange
Activity: Speakers and meetings
Time: June 2, 9:00 am -- Saturday, June 3, 12:00 pm
Further details: No2Torture; Registration; Snail mail registration; Email them for tips on getting there cheap

Location: Local 1199 MLK Jr. labor Center 310 West 42nd Street
Activity: Forum: Torture from New Orleans 1973 to Guantanamo 2006
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Further details: Source

Thursday, June 01, 2006

Fast, exhibit

Location: Nashville, Tennesee (Radio Free Nashville 98.9 FM)
Activity: Radio show: Law & Disorder
Time: Afternoon
Further details: Source

Location: Anywhere
Activity: International 24-Hour Fast
Further details:Website; Registration

Location: Washington , DC , Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Activity: Opening of the month-long Exhibit : Torture: Signs of Despair -- Signs of Hope
Further details: Source
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