[News] From Attica 2 Abu Ghraib - This Friday and Saturday!!!
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Wed Apr 20 08:32:04 EDT 2005
From Attica to Abu Ghraib
An Organizing Conference on Human Rights, Torture, and Resistance
Friday, April 22nd: Opening Night
6PM - 9PM (St. Joseph the Worker Church - 1640 Addison St., Berkeley)
Featuring Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney at anti War Rally in SF - Oct. 25, 2003
Recently returned to office in a ringing vindication of her outspoken
opposition to U.S. torture and human rights abuses.
<http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com/>http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com
Spoken Word: Rima Chaudry
Music: Caminante
and more...
$5 - $100 sliding scale, No one turned away for Lack of funds!!!
Wheelchair accessible
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Saturday, April 23rd: Working Conference
8:30AM - 6:00PM (UC Berkeley - Berkeley, New location:
<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/DE45.html>Barrows Hall)
Childcare Available!!!
Program Focus:
The conference program is divided into three broad areas of focus
and analysis. Each is a key component of the workings of U.S. empire
and provides a focus for linking movements within and outside the
U.S. Our aim is to use the analysis of these focus areas to formulate
concrete plans to unite domestic and international organizations in
successful anti-imperialist campaigns:
* Initiate an International Day of Solidarity to draw attention to,
support, and demand freedom for Political Prisoners, including those
detained before and after 9/11, within and outside the U.S.
* Initiate an international campaign to condemn and stop the systematic
use of torture, illegal detentions, grand jury abuses, secret probes,
immigration registration and raids, and other human rights violations by
the U.S. or its agents.
* Initiate and support litigation and/or other forms of redress in
domestic and international forums against the U.S. government and its
agents for committing systematic violations of human rights law.
Program:
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Registration & Welcoming Session
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Panels 1, 2, 3
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Lunch (Off site)
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM Panels 1, 2, 3
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM or 5:30 PM Workshops: Campaign Building
5:30 PM - 6PM Closing Session
Panels:
Panel 1: The Criminalization of Resistance: Political Prisoners, Prisoners
of War, and Systematic Torture
Akinyele Umoja - Political Prisoners
Alicia Jrapko - Cuban Five
Bonnie Kerness - Political Prisoners and Torture
Linda Evans- Political Prisoners
Soffiyah Elijah - Political Prisoners
Robert King Wilkerson - Political Prisoners and Torture
Kamel Bell - Political Prisoners
Marguerite Laurent - Haitian Political Prisoners
Rafeef Ziadah - Palestinian Political Prisoners
Efia Nwangaza - Political Prisoners
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Panel 2: The Repression of Dissent: COINTELPRO, the PATRIOT Act, and Grand
Juries
Alejandro Molina - Grand Jury Resistance
Hatem Bazian - the New COINTELPRO
Rose Braz - Indefinite Detention
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - COINTELPRO
and more....
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Panel 3: US sponsored terrorism: Occupation, Colonization, Racial and
Religious Oppression, Attacks on Arabs, Muslims, and Immigrants, and the
Globalization of repression
Pierre LaBossiere - Haitian Occupation
Toufic Haddad - Palestine Occupation
Carlos Mauricio - Torture and Impunity
Samina Faheem Sundas - Muslim Rights
Ninotchka Rosca - Philippines
Saja Raoof - Iraqi Occupation
Arnoldo Garcia - Immigrant Rights
Gloria LaRiva - US attacks on Venezuela
and more...
$10 to $100 - sliding scale
Wheelchair accessible
<http://attica2abughraib.com/>http://attica2abughraib.com
The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-9977
www.freedomarchives.org
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