Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the War on Terror
Date:
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 7:00pm
Location :
DC
Present: RECKONING with TORTURE: Memos
and Testimonies from the “War on Terror”
WHERE: Georgetown University
Law Center’s Hart Auditorium
600 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC, 20001
(Nearest Metro is Union Station,
Please use 2nd Street entrance)
ADMISSION IS FREE
www.aclu.org or www.pen.org
Members of Congress, artists, writers, and others read from recently declassified documents in a public event to call attention to the abuse and torture of detainees
in U.S. custody.
Featuring writers and artists:
AASIF MANDVI of The Daily Show
ALICE MCDERMOTT
PAUL AUSTER
SUSAN SHREVE
Also featuring:
BEN WIZNER, Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
DAVID COLE, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
JACK RICE, Former CIA Special Agent
LAURA MURPHY, Director, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
MATTHEW ALEXANDER, Former Senior Military Interrogator
REP. JOHN CONYERS (D-MI)
REP. KEITH ELLISON (D-MN)
REP. BOBBY SCOTT (D-VA)
And a special presentation by artist JENNY HOLZER
With opening and closing remarks from:
JAMEEL JAFFER, Director, ACLU National Security Project
LARRY SIEMS, Director, PEN American Center Freedom to Write Program


