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TORTURE - TWO PERSPECTIVES

TORTURE - TWO PERSPECTIVES

 You can join the online chat or submit questions to livewebcast@veteransforpeace.org

torture perspectivesWe are very excited to invite you and your chapter to participate with us in VFP's first two web streamed dialogues. The first event featured those who have tortured and the second will be held on October 9th, featuring those who are survivors of torture.  Not only will you be able to watch in live, but you will be able to submit your questions by email at livewebcast@veteransforpeace.org or live during the webcast via chat.

Torture: The Prisoner's Reality and International Law

Will be live streamed on Saturday October 9 (6pm London & 10am Pacific time)

torture eventDownload the event flyer [ pdf | jpg ]

Another live event in St. Louis that will be broadcast via the internet.  We encourage all to view it live here at www.veteransforpeace.org.

  • Phil Butler:  Phil graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy, class of 1961. Flew the A4C with VA-22 aboard the USS Midway. On April 20, 1965 his aircraft went down over Vinh from malfunctioning VT fused bomgs. Spent 4 days and nights  attempting to evade capture but was finally tracked down by two well-trained german shepherd dogs. I was repatriated on February 12, 1973.  He is also the author of "Three Lives of a Warrior."
  • Moazzam Begg - Moazzam Begg was seized by the DIA in Islamabad in February of 2002.  He was flown to the U.S. detention facility at Kandahar then Bagram where he was held for a year before being transferred to Guantanamo.  He was labeled as an "enemy combatant" but never charged with a crime.  In all, Moazzam spent three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement.  He was subjected to over three hundred interrogations as well as death threats and torture.  He was released in January of 2005 along with three other British citizens.  He is the author of "Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar."  Begg will be joining us from England via web cast.
  • Leigh Hunt Greenhaw - Professor Greenhaw brings varied experience in practice, teaching and scholarship to her task. Before returning to St. Louis, she was Associate-in-law for the Legal Methods course at Columbia University, Director of Legal Writing at Vanderbilt University and Associate Professor at Widener University.  She has taught Constitutional Law, Religion & the Constitution, First Amendment and Appellate Practice; a semester as a visiting scholar at Macquarie University School of Law in Australia stimulated her interest in comparative constitutional law.  She speaks and writes primarily on issues concerning law and religion. Her most recent writing is with Michael Koby of the Washington University faculty, Constitutional Conversations and New Religious Movements:  A Comparative Case Study, in the 2005 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW. She serves on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri and the Interfaith Partnership/Faith Beyond Walls organization of St. Louis.
  • Moderator: Jean Abbott - Jean is Clinical Director of the  in St. Louis, Missouri. The center provides free counseling for refugee and immigrant survivors of torture and war trauma. 

Torture: Perspectives & Consequences for the Torturer

Streamed live on Saturday, August 7 at 10am Pacific time (1pm Eastern time)

justine sharrockThis will be a live presentation in St. Louis, MO featuring the following panelists.  The event will be live streamed on this webpage on August 7th.

  • Justine Sharrock:  Justine is author of "Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things," will be live streamed from San Francisco, CA
  • Andy Duffy:  Andrew Duffy enlisted as a medic in the Iowa National Guard two days after he turned 17. He testifies to incidents in which Iraqi detainees in Abu Graib Prison desperately in need of medical treatment were denied it.
  • Woody Powell:  Served in the USAF, 1950-54, in Korea 1952-53. Air Police, K-9 Corps. Air Base Defense.  Was Executive Director of Veterans For Peace from 2001 to 2005.
  • Moderated by John Chappell:  Dr. Chappell is an Associate Professor of History at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.  He is author of the book, Before the Bomb: How America Approached the End of the Pacific War.   In May 2010, he was panelist in the workshop, “The Atomic Bombings and Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians,” at the International Conference for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just, and Sustainable World held at Riverside Church in New York City.

 

Live TV by Ustream

 

We urge members and chapters to gather to share this experience by bringing your chapter together for a live streamed video event.  We are encouraging that the discussion continue after the web streamed dialogues. Invite concerned friends and supporters from local churches, schools and organizations to join you. If you are unable to watch it live, you will be able to go to the VFP website to the link and watch it.

All you need to participate is a computer with internet connection.  In a large space it would be good to have access to an LCD projector and a screen.  If you are hosting a live showing of this event, please email Jeanette at jeanette@veteransforpeace.org and let us know the details!