Torture Awareness events through June.

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Daily Vigil Against Torture

Daily, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
300 4th Street South (Federal Courthouse Plaza), Minneapolis

Join others at a vigil against torture. We remind Federal Prosecutors they are fulfilling their obligation.



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Tuesday, June 15
Pax Conversational Salon: Tackling Torture at the Top (T3) Forum

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Mad Hatter's Tea House, 943 West 7th, St. Paul

The WAMM Tackling Torture at the Top (T3) Committee will be holding a forum for Torture Awareness Month. T3 will discuss what they have been working on recently: the laws against torture, Professor Delahunty at the University of St. Thomas Law School and what president Obama is doing regarding the issue.
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Tuesday, June 22
Pax Conversational Salon: “Poems of Guantanamo”

6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Mad Hatter's Tea House, 943 West 7th, St. Paul

Join others at a reading of poetry by some of the detainees at Guantanamo.

Endorsed by: WAMM.

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Sunday, June 27
Save the Date: Educational Forum on Torture

Time and Location TBD

Attend an educational forum around the question, "Do the Geneva Conventions on cruelty still apply?" and others.

Tentative participants include: Chaplain James Yee, former Muslim Army chaplain at Guantanamo, arrested, then exonerated on spy charges; Marjorie Cohn, internationally known expert on human rights and U.S. foreign policy, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild.

Sponsored by: the WAMM Tackling Torture at the Top (T3) Committee.







"ARE YOU AWARE that the statute of limitations applicable to the Federal Torture Statute is eight years? We began what Major General Antonio Taguba called our "systematic regime of torture" eight years ago."