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DESCRIPTION: (update of 4/19/2005)  The date for the UC Berkeley Teach- in on Torture 
 is Thursday, April 28. The following speakers have confirmed their 
 participation: Barbara Olshansky, CCR lead Guantanamo lawyer; Lucas 
 Guttentag, ACLU case against Rumsfeld; Marjorie Cohn, International Human 
 Rights Law Professor and Vice President of NLG, Uwe Jacobs, Director of 
 Survivors International, Terry Karl, Stanford Political Science Professor 
 expert on Latin American Torture; Carlos Mauricio, torture survivor and 
 human rights advocate and As'ad AbuKhalil.  There will be four sequential 
 sessions on Thur., April 28 :  1) 12:00-1:00 p.m. Teach-in at the 
 SproulHallPlaza (Upper Level)  2 ) 1:30-3:30 p.m. Human and Political 
 Impacts of U.S. Government Promotion of Torture      Panel to include: 
 Carlos Mauricio, a survivor of torture, Marjorie Cohn, Vice President of 
 the National Lawyers Guild, Professor of Law and expert on International 
 Human Rights, and Uwe Jacobs, Director of Survivors International (which 
 counsels torture survivors).  3 ) 4-6 p.m. Defending U.S. and International 
 Laws on Torture from Government Impunity      Panel with: Barbara Olshan s 
 ky, Center for Constitutional Rights lead lawyer defending Guantanamo 
 detainees, Lucas Guttentag, ACLU’s lead lawyer in the U.S. case filed 
 against Secty of Defense Rumsfeld, and Terry Karl, Stanford Professor of 
 Latin American Studies and Political Science, chief witness in several war 
 crimes trials pertaining to torture in Latin America.  4 ) 7-9 p.m. To 
 Construct a Successful National Movement Against U.S. Sponsored Torture and 
 War Crimes      An open plenary discussion session to engage attendees, 
 develop plans and follow through efforts to build a movement to end U.S. 
 sponsorship of torture. This session will be guided by an experienced 
 facilitator toward formulating implementation strategy; participants will 
 be asked to define their own roles in future local, regional and national 
 activities against torture. The International Human Rights Initiative 
 (IHRI) consisting of many activist organizations will participate.  Further 
 details to come.  Please help us circulate the call to other faculty, 
 especially at UCB. We especially need people to join the working committee 
 to energize an effective effort. You do not have to be faculty, but only 
 need to be committed to the aims of the Call and willing to work.  
 Professor L. Ling-chi Wang, Co-convenor  Dr. Marc Sapir, M.D., Co-convenor  
 UC Berkeley Teach- in on Torture  lcwang@berkeley.edu 510-642-7439  
 marcsapir@comcast.net 510-848-3826   
 http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/torture/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/23/64233.php
SUMMARY:A Call to Action Against Torture: A Teach-in Against Torture
LOCATION:UC Berkeley, various locations
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/04/23/64233.php
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