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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday,  November 12\n12 Noon & 7:00 PM.  (Potluck at 6:30) \nMonthly 
 Every Second Wednesday Video Presentation at the Fresno Center for 
 Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness, Fresno, CA 93728, across from Fresno City 
 College * SE Corner Van Ness & McKinley * Entrance on Van Ness.   This 
 month’s film will be "Taxi to the Dark Side."  This is a horrifying story 
 of an Afghani cabbie who died in U. S. Military custody.  "Taxi" has 
 received numerous awards including an Oscar and a Peabody.  It has raised 
 disturbing questions about interrogation techniques and U. S. wartime 
 policies.  A. O. Scott of the New York Times, wrote: "A year from now, the 
 presidency of George W. Bush will end, but the consequences of Mr. Bush's 
 policies and the arguments about them are likely to be with us for a long 
 time.  As next Jan. 20 draws near, there is an evident temptation, among 
 many journalists as well as politicians seeking to replace Mr. Bush, to 
 close the book and move ahead, an impulse that makes the existence of 
 documentaries like Alex Gibney's "Taxi to the Dark Side" all the more 
 vital.  If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the 
 necessary clarity and ethical rigor, this film will be essential. . . . The 
 germ of this documentary's story is the case of Dilawar, a taxi driver who 
 was detained in Afghanistan in 2002 and who died in American custody at the 
 prison in Bagram a few months later.  Though Dilawar was never charged with 
 any crime – and was never shown to have any connection with Al Qaeda or 
 the Taliban – he was subjected to horrifically harsh treatment: deprived 
 of sleep; suspended from a grated ceiling by his wrists; kicked and kneed 
 in the legs until he could no longer stand.  The film includes remarkably 
 frank interviews with American servicemen, some of whom faced 
 courts-martial in connection with Dilawar's death; with a fellow prisoner 
 at Bagram; and with Carlotta Gall and Tim Golden, who reported on Dilawar's 
 story for the New York Times.  ‘Taxi to the Dark Side,' however, does not 
 simply recount a single awful anecdote from the early days of the war on 
 terror; rather, it traces the spread of a central, controversial tactic in 
 that war."    FREE.  For info: 237-3223.  \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/04/18548947.php
SUMMARY:Taxi to the Dark Side
LOCATION:Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness, Fresno, CA 93728, across 
 from Fresno City College * SE Corner Van Ness & McKinley * Entrance on Van 
 Ness.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/04/18548947.php
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