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DESCRIPTION:Berkeley High and SF Bay Area chapters of\nWorld Can’t Wait - Drive Out 
 the Bush Regime\nwww.worldcantwait.org\n(415) 864-5153\nPress contact: 
 Sergio: (925) 922-7580\n \nTeach-In at Little Theater at Berkeley High 
 School\nTake a Stand in Solidarity with International Human Rights 
 Day\nPanelists: Carlos Mauricio, Larry Everest, and others to be 
 announced.\n \nDATE: Monday, December 11\nTIME: 8am - noon\nPLACE: Little 
 Theater, 1980 Alston Way, Berkeley, CA\n \nTeachers and students, together 
 with the SF Bay Area chapter of World Can’t Wait are organizing a large 
 teach-in focusing on the Iraq War and the issue of torture – with special 
 emphasis on the recently passed torture bill – the Military Commissions 
 Act.  The event is organized as part of continuing activities in support of 
 International Human Rights Day (December 10th.) \n \nThree successive 
 periods (1-3) of Berkeley High classes and other interested people will 
 attend the event.  The speakers are:\n \nCARLOS MAURICIO\nHigh school 
 teacher from El Salvador who was taken out of class by death squads and 
 tortured.  Carlos is the founder of the Stop Impunity Project, an 
 internationally known torture survivors group and is a well know activist 
 against the School of the Americas.  “The situation is this: The USA 
 government, the administration, knows that fear works very well. Torture 
 works very well as a means of repression. The USA government right now has 
 played many cards to bring fears in the United States. One of them is the 
 threat of terrorism, which can be real or not. The point is, torture is not 
 for gathering information. Torture is to bring fear to the people. 
 “\n\nLARRY EVEREST\nJournalist and author of Oil, Power, and Empire: Iraq 
 and the U.S. Global Agenda.  “There is no war on terror.’ The invasion 
 and occupation of Iraq are not part of a ‘war on terror’.....What does 
 exist is a horrific and criminal U.S. war of terror against the people of 
 the world for greater empire.”\n \nTake a Stand on International Human 
 Rights Day\nSilence + Torture = Complicity\n \nThe Military Commissions Act 
 (recently signed by Bush) takes a horrendous new legal and political leap 
 towards fascism – legalizing torture, indefinite detention without trial, 
 and throwing international law, world public opinion, and 900 years of 
 legal principle out the window.  This is just part of a package coming from 
 the Bush regime that includes an atrocious, nightmarish occupation of Iraq, 
 the threat of war against Iran, an assault on critical thinking and serious 
 motion toward a theocracy. It includes the criminal response to Hurricane 
 Katrina, a systematic attack on women’s reproductive rights, and the 
 demonization of gay people. It includes the scape-goating of immigrants and 
 severely repressive new legislation aimed at them.  There’s more, and it 
 gets worse with every passing week. Resistance is urgently needed!  Join us 
 and others around the country to take a stand on December 10th, 
 International Human Rights Day, as part of building a movement that can 
 drive the Bush regime from power.\n \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/08/18335937.php
SUMMARY:Berkeley High Human Rights Teach-In (World Can't Wait)
LOCATION:Berkeley High School, Little Theater, 1980 Alston Way, Berkeley CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/08/18335937.php
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