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DESCRIPTION:“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I 
 can not be Silent.”― Martin Luther King Jr\n\nProfessor John Yoo is 
 “the man who famously butchered the U.S. Constitution in order to give 
 the CIA the legal authority to conduct medieval torture." He continues to 
 teach at UC Berkeley Law School. He should be prosecuted for complicity in 
 torture and imprisoned. He gave legal justification for torturing Muslim 
 men turned over for bounty to the military for CIA torture at Abu Graib, 
 black sites, and Guantanamo. We are calling for his prosecution. Torture is 
 NEVER legal.\n\nMeet 12:45pm at Caffe Strada, Bancroft Way @ College Ave. 
 Proceed together at 1pm to the Law School across the street. We have Yoo 
 posters, orange jumpsuits & hoods, letter to deliver to Yoo and Law School 
 Dean Chemerinsky, flyers for law school students. Picket, speakers, songs 
 for Yoo (come sing!), join letter delivery asking Yoo to contribute to the 
 Guantanamo Survivors' Fund Give to the Guantanamo Survivors Fund | No More 
 Guantanamos: https://www.nogitmos.org/guantanamo-survivors-fund\n\nHost: 
 CodePink. Endorsers (list in formation): Berkeley No More Guantanamos, 
 Progressive Democrats of America Oakland, Triple Justice, Extinction 
 Rebellion Peace.\n\nThis action on the 21st anniversary of the opening of 
 the prison at Guantánamo Bay will highlight Professor John Yoo's 
 complicity in U.S. torture and call for his prosecution. Yoo provided 
 erroneous legal cover for the U.S. military and CIA to torture captured 
 Muslim men, most of whom have never been charged with crimes, yet spent 
 years at Guantanamo where they were treated inhumanely and tortured. There 
 are less than 40 remaining prisoners. Professor Yoo should be prosecuted, 
 not teaching law at our public university. We've invited Berkeley Law 
 School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to speak. In 2014 Chemerinsky, then Dean of 
 UC Irvine Law School, said in "Nation" magazine and in a KPFK interview 
 that Yoo should be criminally prosecuted:  "I think he [John Yoo] should 
 be,” Chemerinsky said. “All who planned, all who implemented, all who 
 carried out the torture should be criminally prosecuted. How else do we as 
 a society express our outrage? How else do we deter it in the future, 
 except by criminal  
 prosecutions?”\n https://www.thenation.com/article/prosecute-john-yoo-says-law-school-dean-erwin-chemerinsky/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/06/18853709.php
SUMMARY:Close Guantanamo/ Prosecute Yoo for Torture
LOCATION:U.C. Berkeley Law School, Bancroft Way @ College Ave., Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/06/18853709.php
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