New Orleans 1973 to Guantánamo 2006

A discussion on torture at the hands of the

United States government


March 3, 2006

6:30 to 8:30

Riverside Church

91 Claremont Ave. Room 9T

Subway: 1 to 116th @ Broadway (1 block west of Broadway)

For more information contact: Edget Betru

212-614-6477or ebetru@ccr-ny.org

Featuring testimonials by
Danny Glover
Actor and Activist

Michael Ratner and Bill Goodman

Board President & Legal Director, respectively, of CCR will discuss strategies to bring to an end the Bush Administration's abuse of executive power and unlawful practices.

Gita Gutierrez

CCR attorney will report on the plight of her clients whom she recently visited at Guantánamo Bay and the conditions she witnessed. Gita will also speak about CCR’s efforts to seek justice for the hundreds of men and minors who have languished at Guantánamo for more than three years and to seek redress for the abuse and torture many have suffered at the hands of military interrogators and private contractors there, at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, in Afghanistan and at secret detention facilities around the world.

John Bowman and Harold Taylor

Black Panthers who were arrested in New Orleans and tortured by law enforcement authorities in striking similarity to the horrors visited upon detainees Guantánamo in and Abu Ghraib.

Henry “Hank” Jones

Of CDHR will speak about his efforts to draw attention to past and current domestic human rights abuses perpetrated by the government of the United States and law enforcement authorities, and the strategies that progressives can employ against government repression.

Moderators: Ron Daniels, Institute of the Black World 21st Century & Wayne Thompson, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights

COSPONSORED BY:

Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDHR), and Global Justice & Peace Ministries of Riverside Church