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DESCRIPTION:Why is John Yoo still on the UC Berkeley faculty?\n\nJoin World Can't Wait 
 and others on campus this Monday, August 16 to protest University 
 accommodation for war crimes.  A noon press conference will feature 
 prominent speakers including UC alumni representing several generations of 
 UC Law graduates.  A public Procession Against Torture and UC Complicity 
 will immediately follow.\n\nDespite all that is now known about the horrors 
 of the torture system Yoo and other lawyers rigged up for Bush and Cheney - 
 no one at the top layers of the UC power structure has yet taken any 
 responsibility for challenging Yoo's status as a tenured professor.  
 Protest now, to add your voice to the demand that this war criminal has to 
 be gotten out of that classroom!\n\nDoes UC hope somehow John Yoo would 
 become old news, that protests and criticism would go away?  NEW factual 
 evidence, and legal arguments too, only continue showing more about Yoo's 
 role in enabling and enacting torture.  In recent congressional testimony, 
 Yoo's former boss Jay Bybee fingered Yoo for the legal work Yoo gave Bush 
 and Cheney as requested, to "legalize" and support the torture.  Several 
 current major legal cases have Yoo in jeopardy of lawsuits and prosecution. 
  Yet still, Yoo continues profiting from his UC faculty status, gaining 
 celebrity on a lucrative book tour while he teaches (and acts as role model 
 for) the new generation of lawyers and judges.\n\nA lawyer whose work 
 product and advice enabled the White House, the CIA and the U.S. military 
 to commit torture and other war crimes is not protected by "freedom of 
 speech."  A university which lets a war criminal teach constitutional law 
 and ethics to its students is not protecting "academic freedom" - it is 
 protecting war crimes.\n\nAn Obama administration that refuses to fully 
 repudiate - and prosecute - war crimes is not the "change" anyone hoped 
 for.  World Can't Wait is determined to move forward building the kind of 
 resistance movement needed, rather than rely on or place our hopes in the 
 hands of leaders who counsel us to "seek common ground" with fascists and 
 torturers.\n\nJoin us this Monday at the Berkeley Law campus as we gather 
 with many other organizations (see sidebar) to say NO to torture and to be 
 part of that resistance.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/15/18656118.php
SUMMARY:ACADEMIC POSITIONS OF TORTURE
LOCATION:Berkeley Law campus
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/15/18656118.php
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