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DESCRIPTION:Welcome to "Attica to Abu Ghraib" Conference: Human Rights, Torture, and 
 Resistance\n By the International Human Rights Initiative \n\nSaturday, 
 April 23rd: Working Conference \n8:30AM - 9:00PM (UC Berkeley - Berkeley, 
 Barrows Hall)\n\n\n    Childcare Available!!!\n\nProgram Focus: \nThe 
 conference program is divided into three broad areas of focus and analysis. 
 Each is a key component of the workings of U.S. empire\nand provides a 
 focus for linking movements within and outside the U.S. Our aim is to use 
 the analysis of these focus areas to formulate\nconcrete plans to unite 
 domestic and international organizations in successful anti-imperialist 
 campaigns:\n\n\n         Initiate an International Day of Solidarity to 
 draw attention to, support, and demand freedom for Political Prisoners, 
 including those detained before and after 9/11, within and outside the 
 U.S.\n        \n        Initiate an international campaign to condemn and 
 stop the systematic use of torture, illegal detentions, grand jury abuses, 
 secret probes, immigration registration and raids, and other human rights 
 violations by the U.S. or its agents.\n        \n        Initiate and 
 support litigation and/or other forms of redress in domestic and 
 international forums against the U.S. government and its agents for 
 committing systematic violations of human rights law.\n      \n\n\n 
 Program: TBA\n       \n      \n      Morning Panels\n       \n      \n    
   Panel 1: \n      The Criminalization of Resistance: Political Prisoners, 
 Prisoners of War, \n      and Systematic Torture\n       \n      \n      
 Akinyele Umoja – \n      Political Prisoners\n      \n      Alicia Jrapko 
 - Cuban \n      Five\n      \n      Susan Rosenberg – \n      Political 
 Prisoners and Torture\n      Bonnie \n      Kerness – Political Prisoners 
 and Torture\n      Linda \n      Evans- Political Prisoners \n      
 Soffiyah \n      Elijah – Political Prisoners\n      Robert \n      King 
 Wilkerson – Political Prisoners and Torture\n      \n      Kamel \n      
 Bell – Political Prisoners \n      \n      Marguerite Laurent – Haitian 
 Political Prisoners \n      Rafeef \n      Ziadah – Palestinian Political 
 Prisoners \n      Efia \n      Nwangaza – Political Prisoners \n      
  \n      \n      Panel 2:\n      The Repression of Dissent: COINTELPRO, \n 
      the PATRIOT Act, and Grand Juries \n      Alejandro \n      Molina - 
 Grand Jury Resistance \n      \n      Chokwe Lumumba- COINTELPRO \n      \n 
      Hatem \n      Bazian – the New COINTELPRO\n      Rose Braz \n      
 – Indefinite Detention \n      Roxanne \n      Dunbar-Ortiz – 
 COINTELPRO \n      and more....\n       \n      \n       \n      \n      
 Panel 3: US sponsored \n      terrorism: Occupation, Colonization, Racial 
 and Religious Oppression, \n      Attacks on Arabs, Muslims, and 
 Immigrants, and the Globalization of \n      repression\n       \n      \n 
      Pierre LaBossiere – Haitian Occupation\n      Carlos \n      
 Mauricio – Torture and Impunity \n      Samina \n      Faheem Sundas – 
 Muslim Rights\n      Ninotchka \n      Rosca – Philippines  \n      Saja 
 \n      Raoof – Iraqi Occupation\n      Arnoldo \n      Garcia – 
 Immigrant Rights\n      Gloria \n      LaRiva – US attacks on Venezuela\n 
      and more...\n       \n\n\n  \n    \n     \n\n$10 to $100 - sliding 
 scale \nWheelchair accessible\n\n\n\n  \n    \n     \n\n Tax deductible 
 contributions can be made to International Human Rights Initiative 
 (IHRI)/Agape, and mailed to IHRI, P. O. Box 3585, Oakland CA 94609.   
 Partial List of Sponsors and Endorsers:   All African Peoples Revolutionary 
 Party (AAPRP)   Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition   American 
 Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)   American Friends Service 
 Committee (AFSC) Africa Initiative – SF   American Muslim Voice (AMV) 
 Amnesty International- Western Region   Arabs Building Community   Alliance 
 of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA)   BAYAN USA   Black Radical Congress 
 (BRC) – SF Bay Area   California Prison Focus   Center for Constitutional 
 Rights (CCR)   Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA)   Challenging 
 White Supremacy Workshops   Critical Resistance (CR)   Education Not 
 Incarceration   Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC)   GABRIELA Network 
   Global Exchange   Haiti Action Committee   International League of 
 Peoples Struggle (ILPS)   Jericho Movement   Justice Now   Justice in 
 Palestine Coalition   LAGAI – Queer Insurrection   Legal Services for 
 Prisoners with Children (LSPC)   Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM)   
 National Committee to Free the Cuban Five   National Lawyers Guild (NLG) 
 – San Francisco Bay Area Chapter   Out of Control Lesbian Committee to 
 Support Women Political Prisoners   Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC)  
  Queers Undermining Israeli Terror (QUIT!)   San Francisco Women in Black   
 School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch)   SUSTAIN (Stop US Tax Aid to 
 Israel Now)- Bay Area Chapter   TransAfrica Forum   World Organization for 
 Human Rights USA   And more...\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/05/60063.php
SUMMARY:Attica to Abu Ghraib: Human Rights, Torture, and Resistance Conference
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Barrows Hall  http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/CD45.html  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/05/60063.php
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