Welcome to "Attica to Abu Ghraib" Conference: Human Rights, Torture, and Resistance
By the International Human Rights Initiative

Saturday, April 23rd: Working Conference 
8:30AM - 9:00PM (UC Berkeley - Berkeley, Barrows Hall)

Childcare Available!!!

Program Focus: The conference program is divided into three broad areas of focus and analysis. Each is a key component of the workings of U.S. empire and 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 concrete plans to unite domestic and international organizations in successful anti-imperialist campaigns:

1. 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.

Program: TBA

 

Morning Panels

 

Panel 1: The Criminalization of Resistance: Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and Systematic Torture

 

Akinyele Umoja – Political Prisoners

Alicia Jrapko - Cuban Five

Susan Rosenberg – Political Prisoners and Torture

Bonnie Kerness – Political Prisoners and Torture

Linda Evans- Political Prisoners

Soffiyah Elijah – Political Prisoners

Robert King Wilkerson – Political Prisoners and Torture

Kamel Bell – Political Prisoners

Marguerite Laurent – Haitian Political Prisoners

Rafeef Ziadah – Palestinian Political Prisoners

Efia Nwangaza – Political Prisoners

 

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Panel 2: The Repression of Dissent: COINTELPRO, the PATRIOT Act, and Grand Juries

Alejandro Molina - Grand Jury Resistance

Chokwe Lumumba- COINTELPRO

Hatem Bazian – the New COINTELPRO

Rose Braz – Indefinite Detention

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz – COINTELPRO

and more....

 

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Panel 3: US sponsored terrorism: Occupation, Colonization, Racial and Religious Oppression, Attacks on Arabs, Muslims, and Immigrants, and the Globalization of repression

 

Pierre LaBossiere – Haitian Occupation

Carlos Mauricio – Torture and Impunity

Samina Faheem Sundas – Muslim Rights

Ninotchka Rosca – Philippines  

Saja Raoof – Iraqi Occupation

Arnoldo Garcia – Immigrant Rights

Gloria LaRiva – US attacks on Venezuela

and more...