Tortured by the U.S. Government: from Abu Graib to San Quentin

A public forum at the Rochester Institute of Technology will discuss the links between the U.S. government’s mistreatment of prisoners seized abroad and the situation of prisoners caught up in the domestic criminal justice system. Featured speakers are Shujaa Graham, a former inmate on California’s death row, exonerated and released in 1981; and Anthony Arnove, editor of Iraq Under Siege (Haymarket/Pluto) and co-editor with Howard Zinn of Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Seven Stories Press). <!--break--> Event:  Tortured by the U.S. Government:  from Abu<br />Ghraib to San Quentin<br />Date:   Thursday, January 13, 2005<br />Time:   7:00 pm<br />Place:  Webb Auditorium, RIT campus, Gannett Building<br />(Bldg 7)<br /><br />A public forum at the Rochester Institute of<br />Technology will discuss the links between the U.S.<br />government’s mistreatment of prisoners seized abroad<br />and the situation of prisoners caught up in the<br />domestic criminal justice system.  Featured speakers<br />are Shujaa Graham, a former inmate on California’s<br />death row, exonerated and released in 1981; and<br />Anthony Arnove, editor of Iraq Under Siege<br />(Haymarket/Pluto) and co-editor with Howard Zinn of<br />Voices of a People’s History of the United States<br />(Seven Stories Press).<br /><br />  The Bush Administration has stirred controversy in<br />claiming the power to lock up without charge both<br />citizens and non-citizens, captured within and outside<br />the borders of the U.S.  The incidents of torture and<br />abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Bagram Air Base in<br />Afghanistan, and the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in<br />Cuba have been well-documented.<br />  The Administration has also spearheaded an<br />unprecedented rounding-up and detention  of<br />immigrants—especially Arabs and Muslims, along with<br />concerted attacks on civil liberties through measures<br />like the USA Patriot Act.  And all this comes at a<br />time when the U.S. locks up a higher proportion of its<br />own citizens than any other country in the world: more<br />than two million in prison.<br />  The January 13th forum on “Tortured by the U.S.<br />Government: from Abu Ghraib to San Quentin” will look<br />the common threads running through all these abuses of<br />government power, both actual and potential, and what<br />can be done to address them.  The event is free and<br />open to the public.<br /><br />Sponsored  by the International Socialist<br />Organization.    For further information call<br />442-2216.<br />

<p>A public forum at the Rochester Institute of<br /> Technology will discuss the links between the U.S.<br /> government’s mistreatment of prisoners seized abroad and the situation of prisoners caught up in the domestic criminal justice system. Featured speakers are Shujaa Graham, a former inmate on California’s death row, exonerated and released in 1981; and Anthony Arnove, editor of Iraq Under Siege (Haymarket/Pluto) and co-editor with Howard Zinn of Voices of a People’s History of the United States (Seven Stories Press).</p> <!--break--><p>Event:  Tortured by the U.S. Government:  from Abu<br />Ghraib to San Quentin<br />Date:   Thursday, January 13, 2005<br />Time:   7:00 pm<br />Place:  Webb Auditorium, RIT campus, Gannett Building<br />(Bldg 7)</p> <p>A public forum at the Rochester Institute of<br />Technology will discuss the links between the U.S.<br />government’s mistreatment of prisoners seized abroad<br />and the situation of prisoners caught up in the<br />domestic criminal justice system.  Featured speakers<br />are Shujaa Graham, a former inmate on California’s<br />death row, exonerated and released in 1981; and<br />Anthony Arnove, editor of Iraq Under Siege<br />(Haymarket/Pluto) and co-editor with Howard Zinn of<br />Voices of a People’s History of the United States<br />(Seven Stories Press).</p> <p>  The Bush Administration has stirred controversy in<br />claiming the power to lock up without charge both<br />citizens and non-citizens, captured within and outside<br />the borders of the U.S.  The incidents of torture and<br />abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Bagram Air Base in<br />Afghanistan, and the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in<br />Cuba have been well-documented.<br />  The Administration has also spearheaded an<br />unprecedented rounding-up and detention  of<br />immigrants—especially Arabs and Muslims, along with<br />concerted attacks on civil liberties through measures<br />like the USA Patriot Act.  And all this comes at a<br />time when the U.S. locks up a higher proportion of its<br />own citizens than any other country in the world: more<br />than two million in prison.<br />  The January 13th forum on “Tortured by the U.S.<br />Government: from Abu Ghraib to San Quentin” will look<br />the common threads running through all these abuses of<br />government power, both actual and potential, and what<br />can be done to address them.  The event is free and<br />open to the public.</p> <p>Sponsored  by the International Socialist<br />Organization.    For further information call<br />442-2216.</p>