January 6, 2008
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If you are not able to travel to Washington, D.C. for the national Witness Against Torture, we invite you to join Voices for Creative Nonviolence in Chicago on January 11, 2008 for an action to address international torture and torture at the hands of the Chicago police department.
4:30 p.m.
Friday, January 11
Federal Plaza
230 S Dearborn St
Chicago, Illinois
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Speakers will include:
- Marc Falkoff, lawyer and professor, and editor of “Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak”
- Darrell Cannon, survivor of torture by the Chicago Police Department
- Attorney Lawrence Kennon from Black People Against Police Torture
- Adriana Bartow, survivor of the repression of the U.S. supported Guatemalan government
- Voices, a Chicago vocal performance group which participates in the effort to close the School of the Americas
U.S. Prison at Guantanamo
Since 2002, more than one thousand men and boys have been imprisoned at Guantanamo, most without being formally charged with a crime in court. Accounts of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment have been condemned by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch and other reputable bodies. The prisoners have resorted to hunger strikes as a way of protesting their treatment. Many have attempted suicide; three men allegedly killed themselves on June 10, 2006; a fourth died on May 30, 2007. Desperation, fear and frustration mark their confinement.
Chicago Police Torture
From 1972 to 1991, over 100 African-American men and women were tortured by former Police Commander Jon Burge and detectives under his command at Areas 2 and 3 of the Chicago Police Department. Many court cases have confirmed that the torture inflicted upon these men included electric shock, suffocation and burning. Yet no Chicago Police officer has ever been prosecuted for these crimes despite demands for justice from the United Nations Committee Against Torture, Amnesty International and the people of Chicago, among many others.
Join us on January 11th to demand justice for Guantanamo detainees, Chicago Police torture survivors and all victims of torture.
For more information contact:
Voices for Creative Nonviolence 773-878-3815
For information on the national campaign, visit Witness Against Torture
