Ending Torture Now: Moving Forward by Looking Backwards
Mon, 08/13/2012 - 6:00pm - 8:00pmEnding Torture Now: Moving Forward by Looking BackwardsAmnesty International and Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) invite you and your neighbors to join...
View ArticleFREE SPEECH ZONE | Ellison, Franken support accountability for U.S.-committed...
Chuck TurchickMinnesota has long been a center for human rights advocates. From Hubert Humphrey's 1948 speech on civil rights, to Harold Stassen's drafting of the U.N. Charter, to Don Fraser's...
View ArticleThank you, Mr. President
Chuck TurchickDear Mr. President:I cannot express how thrilled I was to read that the Department of Justice has finally put an end to the notion that anyone will be prosecuted for torture committed on...
View ArticleCOMMUNITY VOICES | Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid embarrasses itself
Chuck Turchick Community Voices A "News of the Weird" section would be a more appropriate site for this post. On Thursday evening, Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid (Minneapolis and a few non-metro offices),...
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Face-to-face with Dr. Steven Miles: Tracking doctors who torture
The Uptake When graphic photos of Iraqi prisoners collared to dog leashes and strung up with electrical wires went public in 2004, all Dr. Steven Miles could wonder was, “Where were the doctors?” A...
View ArticleCOMMUNITY VOICES | University of Minnesota faculty statement on the visit of...
Community Voices [Editor's note: This is the text of a petition/statement by University of Minnesota faculty members objecting to this week's visit by Dr. Condoleezza Rice.] On April 17, 2014, former...
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Torture done in our name
Mary TurckThe long-secret “torture report” from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is out. Sort of. The full report, still classified, is 6700 pages of “comprehensive and excruciating detail.”...
View ArticleAhmed Tharwat: My 800-words torture report
ahmediatv Community Voices The release of the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report has brought back painful memories. Now everyone knows that our government has “tortured some folks,” as...
View ArticleReflections of New Minnesotans: Torture and the CIA
NekessaOn this week's episode, Julia Nekessa Opoti and guest Ahmed Tharwat discuss the recently released CIA torture report. Ahmed Tharwat also discusses his personal experience as someone who has been...
View ArticleSenator Klobuchar: Is torture a legal issue?
Chuck Turchick Community Voices Senator Amy Klobuchar, a former County Attorney, a current member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and a possible future Supreme Court nominee, is adept at avoiding...
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