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DESCRIPTION:Help end Boalt Hall's legacy of torture. \n\nSince 2008, the commencement 
 ceremonies at UC Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall) have been the site of 
 large-scale protest actions. World Can't Wait, human rights and civil 
 liberties groups working against torture, and others have called on 
 graduates to protest John Yoo and torture.\n\nJohn Yoo did his most 
 notorious damage as deputy assistant attorney general for the Bush 
 administration's Office of Legal Counsel, where his legal opinions were 
 used to justify torture. But he is still a professor at UC Berkeley's Boalt 
 Law School. We'll be at the graduation on the morning of May 13 to continue 
 the demand he be fired, disbarred, and prosecuted for his criminal 
 lawyering as a Bush administration official. We plan to have orange jump 
 suits in tableau, lots of orange ribbons, and excellent signs for the many 
 expected to come out for this action. \n \nThe ceremony itself starts at 
 ten, but our protest will happen BEFOREHAND, beginning at 9 am when the 
 gates at the Greek Theatre open to guests (only folks with tickets will be 
 allowed inside, but we'll have plenty of opportunity to make our point as 
 students, faculty, and families arrive). \n \nA note to Boalt graduates and 
 their families: Please be assured that the graduates and their families and 
 friends are not the targets of our protest. We have no intention of 
 heckling attendees or disrupting the graduation. However, we do believe 
 that it is an appropriate time and place to express our outrage that 
 someone who is clearly guilty of war crimes under all internationally 
 recognized standards is teaching constitutional law at Berkeley. We hope 
 that attendees will agree with this position and choose to express that by 
 wearing an orange ribbon during the ceremony (note ribbons in photograph 
 from last year, below). Rather than diminishing their pride in their 
 accomplishment, taking a stand against injustice should increase it.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/29/18678448.php
SUMMARY:Fire, Disbar And Prosecute Torture Professor John Yoo
LOCATION:Hearst Greek Theater\nUC Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/29/18678448.php
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