[News] Attica 2 Abu Ghraib Conference 4/22 & 4/23

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Hi all. Attached is the flyer with details on the upcoming conference. This 
can be printed out for outreach.
Text follows.

Attica to Abu Ghraib
An organizing conference on human rights, torture, and resistance
Sponsored by the International Human Rights Initiative

Opening Event
featuring
Congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney
Georgia congresswoman recently
returned to office in a
ringing vindication
of her outspoken
opposition to U.S. torture
and human rights abuses
Rima Chaudry and Others
Spoken Word, Music and More
Friday, April 22
6:00–9:00 pm
St. Joseph the Worker Church
1640 Addison St., Berkeley, CA

Working Conference
Saturday, April 23
8:30 am–9:00 pm
U.C. Berkeley, Dwinelle Hall

Torture, illegal detention and other human rights
abuses have always been weapons used by the
United States government to crush dissent and
social justice movements. Today, the criminalization
of people of color in the US, mass detention and
deportation of Arabs, Muslims and immigrants, and ongoing
torture in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, and in US
prisons are evidence of a terrifying escalation in US repression
both at home and abroad.

What can we do? Our strength lies in building on the experiences
of those who resist: here in the US, in Latin America,
Palestine, the Philippines, Haiti, Cuba, and in countless
communities throughout the world. The International
Human Rights Initiative was conceived by a strong diverse
coalition, including US political prisoners, to help unite the
emerging global resistance movement.

Conference Goals

This is a conference for organizers, activists and members of the community
to strategize and coordinate resistance to U.S. Government
policies that violate human rights and international law. Activists will
share their current work, experiences and strategies, and interactive
working sessions will develop proposals for joint work which will be
refined into a campaign plan.

The priorities of the conference are:
1. Develop strategic plans and launch an international campaign
to stop the U.S. and its agents’ use of torture, detention,
grand juries, immigration raids, and other human
rights abuses.
2. Document these violations of human rights, domestic and
international law in order to pursue redress in domestic
and international forums.
3. Organize an International Day of Solidarity to demand freedom
for political prisoners, within and outside the U.S.
4. Share resources and strengthen relationships among local,
national and international organizations.

Focus Areas
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 a
successful anti-imperialist campaign.

1. The Criminalization of Resistance: Political Prisoners,
Prisoners of War, and Systematic Torture
2. The Repression of Dissent: COINTELPRO, The Patriot Act,
and Grand Juries
3. U.S.-sponsored Terrorism: Occupation, Colonization, Racial
and Religious Oppression, Attacks on Arabs, Muslims, and
Immigrants, and the globalization of repression.

How You Can Participate
We want you (and your group, if you are part of one) to join in planning,
publicizing, financing and putting on the conference, as well as
building campaigns and networks growing out of the conference. Get
in touch with us at the email address and phone number on the front.

Tax deductible contributions can be made to International Human
Rights Initiative (IHRI)/Agape, and mailed to IHRI, P. O. Box 3585,
Oakland CA 94609.

Contact:
info at attica2abughraib.com
www.attica2abughraib.com
415 273-4608

Partial List of Sponsors and Endorsers
African Anti-War Front (AAWF) • Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return 
Coalition • All-African
Peoples’ Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) • Alliance of South Asians Taking 
Action (ASATA) • American
Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) • American Friends Service 
Committee (AFSC) Africa
Initiative–SF • American Muslim Voice • Amnesty International-Western 
Region • Arabs Building
Community • Arab Students Association (ASU)–UC Berkeley • BAYAN USA • Bay 
Area Local
Organizing Committee (BayLOC)–National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) 
• Black Radical
Congress (BRC)–SF Bay Area • Break the Chains • California Prison Focus • 
Center for Constitutional
Rights (CCR) • Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) • Challenging 
White Supremacy
Workshops • Club Knowledge–Laney Community College • Collision Course Video 
• Committee for
Human Rights in the Philippines (CHIRP) • Critical Resistance (CR) • East 
Side Arts Alliance (ESAA)
• Education not Incarceration (ENI) • Ella Baker Center for Human Rights 
(EBC) • Data Center •
GABRIELA Network • Global Exchange • Haiti Action Committee • Heads Up 
Collective • Interfaith
Alliance for Prison Reform • International League of Peoples’ Struggle 
(ILPS) • Jericho Movement
• Justice Now • Justice in Palestine Coalition (JPC) • LAGAI–Queer 
Insurrection • Legal Services for
Prisoners with Children (LSPC) • Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) • 
Middle East Children’s
Alliance • Muslim Students Association (MSA)–UC Berkeley • National 
Committee to Free the Cuban
Five • National Lawyers Guild (NLG)–San Francisco • Not in Our Name • Out 
of Control • Peace and
Justice Foundation • Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) • Prisoners 
Justice Action Committee–
Toronto • Prison Legal News (PLN) • Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism 
(QUIT!) • Radical Arab
Women’s Activist Network (RAWAN) • San Francisco Women in Black • School of 
the Americas
Watch (SOA Watch) • Stop U.S. Tax Aid to Israel Now (SUSTAIN) • TransAfrica 
Forum • Truth and
Justice Coalition–Masjid Al Islam • Women of Color Resource Center (WCSC) • 
World Organization
for Human Rights USA


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