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DESCRIPTION:Stop torture!  End the torture flights!\n\nMarch, picket, and press 
 conference at Jeppesen headquarters\n\nJeppesen Dataplan is a San Jose 
 company that profits from illegal kidnappings and torture. The company 
 handles the logistics for the CIA's so-called "extraordinary rendition" 
 flights -- torture flights.\n\n11:40 a.m. - March from San Jose Caltrain 
 station to Jeppesen headquarters\n12:00 noon - Informational picket and 
 press conference outside Jeppesen HQ\n225 W. Santa Clara St. #1600, San 
 Jose\n\nThis month's Iraq Moratorium action honors the upcoming 
 International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture on June 26, which is 
 the anniversary of the effective date of the UN's Convention Against 
 Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.  
 \n\nThe UN Convention Against Torture clearly states that no country may 
 "extradite a person to another State where there are substantial grounds 
 for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture." 
 The convention entered into effect on June 26, 1987 and was signed by the 
 U.S. in 1988. This means that the CIA’s practice of "extraordinary 
 rendition" -- outsourcing the interrogation of suspected terrorists to 
 countries known to practice torture -- violates U.S. as well as 
 international law.\n\nSan Jose-based Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing 
 subsidiary, has been accused of providing logistics for those 
 "extraordinary rendition" flights. The U.S. Justice Department intervened 
 in a lawsuit against Jeppesen, claiming that state secrets would be 
 revealed if the lawsuit were allowed to go ahead.  But in July 2006, 
 Jeppesen Managing Director Bob Overby told employees, "We do the torture 
 flights."\n\nSuppose a local company had been accused of sex trafficking or 
 drug running? Wouldn’t there be a general outcry and condemnation? Should 
 law-breakers be able to do business freely in our city? Why is Jeppesen 
 still a respected member of the San Jose business community?\n\nFor more 
 than a year, San Jose Peace and Justice Center and other activists in San 
 Jose and on the Peninsula have been organizing protests against Jeppesen, 
 demanding that it cut ties to the CIA and torture flights. Jeppesen has so 
 far refused to respond. Tell Jeppesen: "We don't want torturers in our 
 community! Stop working for the CIA!"\n\nTake the Anti-Torture Train - 
 Board Caltrain #138; get on at the first car. Partial train schedule: 10:31 
 a.m. - Millbrae || 10:38 a.m. - San Mateo || 10:55 a.m. - Redwood City || 
 11:03 a.m. - Palo Alto || 11:15 a.m. - Mountain View || 11:20 a.m. - 
 Sunnyvale || 11:29 a.m. - Santa Clara || 11:38 a.m. - San José Diridon. 
 Non-marchers can take the VTA Downtown Area Shuttle #201 from the Caltrain 
 station to Jeppesen.\n\nPart of the Iraq Moratorium campaign.  Local Iraq 
 Moratorium events are organized by these Peninsula and South Bay 
 groups:\nAmerican Muslim Voice, Council of Churches of Santa Clara County, 
 Declaration of Peace - San Mateo County, Global Peace Partners, Gold Star 
 Families Speak Out, Green Party - Santa Clara County, Jewish Voice for 
 Peace - South Bay Chapter, Los Altos Voices for Peace, Mountain View Voices 
 for Peace, MoveOn District 14 Council, Multifaith Voices for Peace and 
 Justice, Pacifica Peace People, Peace Action of San Mateo County, Peace 
 Umbrella - Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, Peninsula Peace and 
 Justice Center, Raging Grannies Action League, The Rebuilding Alliance, San 
 Jose Peace and Justice Center, San Mateo County Democracy for America, 
 South Bay Mobilization, Veterans for Peace, Womens International League for 
 Peace and Freedom - Peninsula Branch\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/28/18502725.php
SUMMARY:March and Picket to Stop Torture
LOCATION:Jeppesen, Inc. Headquarters\n225 W. Santa Clara St. #1600, San Jose
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/28/18502725.php
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