TORTURE - TWO PERSPECTIVES
We are very excited to invite you and your chapter to participate with us in VFP's first two web streamed dialogues. One event will feature those who have tortured and another will feature 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 livewebstream@veteransforpeace.org or live during the webcast via chat.
Torture: Perspectives & Consequences for the Torturer
Streamed live on Saturday, August 7 at 10am Pacific time (1pm Eastern time)
This 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.
Torture: The Prisoner's Reality and International Law
Streamed live on Saturday October 9 (6pm London & 10am Pacific time)
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.
- Moderator - to be announced
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