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</font><div align="center"><font size=5 color="#C00000"><b>From Attica to
Abu Ghraib<br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3>An Organizing Conference on Human
Rights, Torture, and Resistance<br><br>
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<font size=5><b>Friday, April 22nd: Opening
Night</font><font face="verdana" size=4> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3>6PM - 9PM (St. Joseph the Worker
Church - 1640 Addison St., Berkeley)<br>
</b></font><font face="verdana" size=2> <br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=4>Featuring Georgia <b>Congresswoman</b>
</font><font face="verdana" size=4 color="#CC0000"><b>Cynthia
McKinney</font><font face="verdana" size=4> <br><br>
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<img src="cid:6.2.1.2.2.20050420053105.025f9db0@freedomarchives.org.0" width=108 height=157 alt="Cynthia McKinney at anti War Rally in SF - Oct. 25, 2003">
</b><font face="verdana" size=2> <br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3>Recently returned to office in a
ringing vindication of her outspoken opposition to U.S. torture and human
rights abuses.<br>
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<a href="http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com/">
http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com</a><br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3><b><u>Spoken Word</u>: Rima
Chaudry</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="verdana" size=3><b><u>Music</u>: Caminante</b></font>
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<font face="verdana" size=3><b>and more...</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="verdana" size=3>$5 - $100 sliding scale, No one turned away
for Lack of funds!!!<br>
<b>Wheelchair accessible<br>
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<font face="verdana" size=5><b>Saturday, April 23rd: Working Conference
</b></font><font size=3> <br><br>
</font><font face="verdana" size=3><b>8:30AM - 6:00PM (UC Berkeley -
Berkeley, </font><font face="verdana" size=3 color="#CC0000">New
location</font><font face="verdana" size=3>:
</font><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/DE45.html">
<font face="verdana" size=3 color="#003399">Barrows
Hall</a></font><font face="verdana" size=3>)</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="verdana" size=3 color="#FFCE00"><b>Childcare
Available!!!<br>
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</font><font face="verdana" size=3><b><u>Program Focus</u>: <br><br>
</b>The conference program is divided into three broad areas of
focus<br>
and analysis. Each is a key component of the workings of U.S. empire<br>
and provides a focus for linking movements within and outside the<br>
U.S. Our aim is to use the analysis of these focus areas to
formulate<br>
concrete plans to unite domestic and international organizations in
successful anti-imperialist campaigns:</font>
<ol>
<li><font face="Verdana" size=3>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.</font>
<li><font face="Verdana" size=3>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.</font>
<li><font face="Verdana" size=3>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.</font>
</ol><br>
<font face="verdana" size=3><b><u>Program:<br>
</u></font>8:30 AM - 9:30 AM</b> Registration & Welcoming
Session<br>
<b>9:30 AM - 11:30 AM</b> Panels 1, 2, 3<br>
<b>11:30 AM - 12:30 PM</b> Lunch (Off site)<br>
<b>12:30 PM - 2:30 PM</b> Panels 1, 2, 3<br>
<b>3:00 PM - 5:00 PM or 5:30 PM</b> Workshops: Campaign Building<br>
<b>5:30 PM - 6PM</b> Closing Session<br><br>
<font face="verdana" size=3><b><u>Panels:<br><br>
</u></font><h1><font size=3 color="#CC0000"><b>Panel 1:</font> The
Criminalization of Resistance: Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and
Systematic Torture<br><br>
</i></b></h1><font face="arial" size=3>Akinyele Umoja - Political
Prisoners<br><br>
Alicia Jrapko - Cuban Five<br><br>
<b>Bonnie Kerness</b> - Political Prisoners and Torture<br><br>
<b>Linda Evans</b>- Political Prisoners <br><br>
<b>Soffiyah Elijah</b> - Political Prisoners<br><br>
<b>Robert King Wilkerson</b> - Political Prisoners and Torture <br><br>
<b>Kamel Bell</b> - Political Prisoners <br><br>
<b>Marguerite Laurent</b> - Haitian Political Prisoners <br><br>
<b>Rafeef Ziadah </b>- Palestinian Political Prisoners <br><br>
<b>Efia Nwangaza </b>- Political Prisoners <br><br>
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<h1><font size=3 color="#CC0000"><b>Panel 2:</font> The Repression of
Dissent: COINTELPRO, the PATRIOT Act, and Grand Juries <br><br>
</i></b></h1><font face="arial" size=3><b>Alejandro Molina</b> - Grand
Jury Resistance <br><br>
<b>Hatem Bazian</b> - the New COINTELPRO<br><br>
<b>Rose Braz</b> - Indefinite Detention <br><br>
<b>Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz</b> - COINTELPRO <br><br>
and more....<br><br>
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<font size=3 color="#CC0000"><b>Panel 3:</b></font><font size=3> <i>US
sponsored terrorism: Occupation, Colonization, Racial and Religious
Oppression, Attacks on Arabs, Muslims, and Immigrants, and the
Globalization of repression<br><br>
</i> <br><br>
</font><font face="arial" size=3><b>Pierre LaBossiere</b> - Haitian
Occupation<br><br>
<b>Toufic Haddad - </b>Palestine Occupation<br><br>
<b>Carlos Mauricio</b> - Torture and Impunity <br><br>
<b>Samina Faheem Sundas</b> - Muslim Rights<br><br>
<b>Ninotchka Rosca</b> - Philippines <br><br>
<b>Saja Raoof</b> - Iraqi Occupation<br><br>
<b>Arnoldo Garcia</b> - Immigrant Rights<br><br>
<b>Gloria LaRiva</b> - US attacks on Venezuela<br><br>
and more...<br><br>
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<font face="verdana" size=3>$10 to $100 - sliding scale <br>
<b>Wheelchair accessible<br>
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