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January 13, 2015, UC Berkeley Law: On the second afternoon of the new semester, 35 people arrived at Boalt Hall for a press conference and speak-out. Called by the local chapters of World Can’t Wait, the National Lawyers Guild, and Code Pink, this protest marked the 13th anniversary of Guantánamo and raised three demands: Close Guantanamo Now – Prosecute All the Torturers – and Fire, Disbar and Prosecute John Yoo.
There’s a wonderful 20-minute “minidocumentary” radio broadcast highlighting the event that was aired later that afternoon on KPFA’s Flashpoints news show, produced by Dennis Bernstein (more below). Listen here: www.flashpoints.net/?p=4377
Under signs and banners carried by protesters wearing jumpsuits and hoods, the speak-out was a powerful collection of voices, kicked off by Stephanie Tang (World Can’t Wait) and attorney Sharon Adams for the National Lawyers Guild. Three Berkeley Law alums next took the bullhorn, all well-known for their life’s work as lawyers defending justice and rights: Ann Fagan Ginger, Dan Siegel , and Stephen Bingham all spoke to the total outrage of having illegal torture condoned as legal, and having a war criminal teaching at Boalt. Bingham spoke of the anger growing among many alumni over UC’s newest reward to Yoo, the oldest endowed chair in the law school. Toby Blome from Code Pink made the connections between the drone wars and the torture. Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist and Chelsea Manning Support Network) brought solidarity from military resisters and recalled that one result of Chelsea’s courage was the release of the Guantanamo Files. Nova from the Revolution Club called on us all to see the connections under a system that generates these abuses and police brutality and murder at home, and to look to a whole different world. And a Boalt law student stepped forward to tell of her shame at having Yoo teaching here, and to say today she was joining this group in protest.
Then led by the “prisoners” and banners, the whole speak-out crowd filed into the law school and marched to the office of Boalt’s new dean, Sujit Choudry. We carried photographs of the Guantanamo child prisoner Omar Khadr. A Canadian native, Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he first entered Guantanamo only left 10 years later under a coerced plea bargain that sent him to spend 8 more years in a Canadian prison. Like the other 778 prisoners at Guantanamo since 2002, Omar Khadr was tortured physically and mentally. He suffers permanent damage (he lost one eye at Guantanamo and is in present danger of losing the other eye now due to lack of proper medical treatment in Canada).
In 2010 Sujit Choudry was an attorney with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and was co-counsel on a brief on behalf of Omar Khadr before Canada’s Supreme Court (which did rule that the Canadian government had violated Khadr’s rights). So Dean Choudry knows well the story of Omar Khadr’s torture, and presumably had to study up on what happened in that prison more generally. People who remember the former dean’s protection of John Yoo are hopeful that the new dean will understand his duty to open a full investigation under UC rules into John Yoo’s work enabling illegal torture, and move that process toward firing Yoo.
Sharon Adams and Therese Davis delivered to the dean’s door a petition organized by the National Lawyers Guild, protesting the awarding of the endowed chair to Torture Professor John Yoo, and bearing over 3,000 signatures gathered in just a few months. The dean wasn’t home to receive his guests, but you can hear some back-and-forth between the dean’s chief of staff and Sharon Adams and Ann Fagan Ginger, and Susan Harman. (The male voice is the law school’s public relations officer. He admitted to us that he “doesn’t think much about” what international or U.S. law say about torture.)
Outside the dean’s office hang several original paintings by Fernando Botero. They depict his nightmarish vision of the torture at Abu Ghraib. Many find this juxtaposition of proudly displaying the Abu Ghraib paintings, at the school which allows the lawyer whose work product enabled this grotesque, violent mistreatment and murder under official U.S. authority, just too bizarre for words. But we did end our visit to the dean, with a solemn presentation by Janet Weil (Code Pink) of a poem written by a Guantanamo prisoner, Mohammed el Gharani.
With no police in sight to clear the halls, we held a circle conversation for another half hour, grappling with this anniversary of torture, the incredible situation that Guantanamo is still open, and what next steps could be taken toward both closing Guantanamo AND forcing the prosecution of all those responsible including John Yoo.
January 13, 2015, UC Berkeley Law: On the second afternoon of the new semester, 35 people arrived at Boalt Hall for a press conference and speak-out. Called by the local chapters of World Can’t Wait, the National Lawyers Guild, and Code Pink, this protest marked the 13th anniversary of Guantánamo and raised three demands: Close Guantanamo Now – Prosecute All the Torturers – and Fire, Disbar and Prosecute John Yoo.
There’s a wonderful 20-minute “minidocumentary” radio broadcast highlighting the event that was aired later that afternoon on KPFA’s Flashpoints news show, produced by Dennis Bernstein (more below). Listen here: www.flashpoints.net/?p=4377
Under signs and banners carried by protesters wearing jumpsuits and hoods, the speak-out was a powerful collection of voices, kicked off by Stephanie Tang (World Can’t Wait) and attorney Sharon Adams for the National Lawyers Guild. Three Berkeley Law alums next took the bullhorn, all well-known for their life’s work as lawyers defending justice and rights: Ann Fagan Ginger, Dan Siegel , and Stephen Bingham all spoke to the total outrage of having illegal torture condoned as legal, and having a war criminal teaching at Boalt. Bingham spoke of the anger growing among many alumni over UC’s newest reward to Yoo, the oldest endowed chair in the law school. Toby Blome from Code Pink made the connections between the drone wars and the torture. Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist and Chelsea Manning Support Network) brought solidarity from military resisters and recalled that one result of Chelsea’s courage was the release of the Guantanamo Files. Nova from the Revolution Club called on us all to see the connections under a system that generates these abuses and police brutality and murder at home, and to look to a whole different world. And a Boalt law student stepped forward to tell of her shame at having Yoo teaching here, and to say today she was joining this group in protest.
Then led by the “prisoners” and banners, the whole speak-out crowd filed into the law school and marched to the office of Boalt’s new dean, Sujit Choudry. We carried photographs of the Guantanamo child prisoner Omar Khadr. A Canadian native, Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he first entered Guantanamo only left 10 years later under a coerced plea bargain that sent him to spend 8 more years in a Canadian prison. Like the other 778 prisoners at Guantanamo since 2002, Omar Khadr was tortured physically and mentally. He suffers permanent damage (he lost one eye at Guantanamo and is in present danger of losing the other eye now due to lack of proper medical treatment in Canada).
In 2010 Sujit Choudry was an attorney with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and was co-counsel on a brief on behalf of Omar Khadr before Canada’s Supreme Court (which did rule that the Canadian government had violated Khadr’s rights). So Dean Choudry knows well the story of Omar Khadr’s torture, and presumably had to study up on what happened in that prison more generally. People who remember the former dean’s protection of John Yoo are hopeful that the new dean will understand his duty to open a full investigation under UC rules into John Yoo’s work enabling illegal torture, and move that process toward firing Yoo.
Sharon Adams and Therese Davis delivered to the dean’s door a petition organized by the National Lawyers Guild, protesting the awarding of the endowed chair to Torture Professor John Yoo, and bearing over 3,000 signatures gathered in just a few months. The dean wasn’t home to receive his guests, but you can hear some back-and-forth between the dean’s chief of staff and Sharon Adams and Ann Fagan Ginger, and Susan Harman. (The male voice is the law school’s public relations officer. He admitted to us that he “doesn’t think much about” what international or U.S. law say about torture.)
Outside the dean’s office hang several original paintings by Fernando Botero. They depict his nightmarish vision of the torture at Abu Ghraib. Many find this juxtaposition of proudly displaying the Abu Ghraib paintings, at the school which allows the lawyer whose work product enabled this grotesque, violent mistreatment and murder under official U.S. authority, just too bizarre for words. But we did end our visit to the dean, with a solemn presentation by Janet Weil (Code Pink) of a poem written by a Guantanamo prisoner, Mohammed el Gharani.
With no police in sight to clear the halls, we held a circle conversation for another half hour, grappling with this anniversary of torture, the incredible situation that Guantanamo is still open, and what next steps could be taken toward both closing Guantanamo AND forcing the prosecution of all those responsible including John Yoo.
January 13, 2015, UC Berkeley Law: On the second afternoon of the new semester, 35 people arrived at Boalt Hall for a press conference and speak-out. Called by the local chapters of World Can’t Wait, the National Lawyers Guild, and Code Pink, this protest marked the 13th anniversary of Guantánamo and raised three demands: Close Guantanamo Now – Prosecute All the Torturers – and Fire, Disbar and Prosecute John Yoo.
There’s a wonderful 20-minute “minidocumentary” radio broadcast highlighting the event that was aired later that afternoon on KPFA’s Flashpoints news show, produced by Dennis Bernstein (more below). Listen here: www.flashpoints.net/?p=4377
Under signs and banners carried by protesters wearing jumpsuits and hoods, the speak-out was a powerful collection of voices, kicked off by Stephanie Tang (World Can’t Wait) and attorney Sharon Adams for the National Lawyers Guild. Three Berkeley Law alums next took the bullhorn, all well-known for their life’s work as lawyers defending justice and rights: Ann Fagan Ginger, Dan Siegel , and Stephen Bingham all spoke to the total outrage of having illegal torture condoned as legal, and having a war criminal teaching at Boalt. Bingham spoke of the anger growing among many alumni over UC’s newest reward to Yoo, the oldest endowed chair in the law school. Toby Blome from Code Pink made the connections between the drone wars and the torture. Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist and Chelsea Manning Support Network) brought solidarity from military resisters and recalled that one result of Chelsea’s courage was the release of the Guantanamo Files. Nova from the Revolution Club called on us all to see the connections under a system that generates these abuses and police brutality and murder at home, and to look to a whole different world. And a Boalt law student stepped forward to tell of her shame at having Yoo teaching here, and to say today she was joining this group in protest.
Then led by the “prisoners” and banners, the whole speak-out crowd filed into the law school and marched to the office of Boalt’s new dean, Sujit Choudry. We carried photographs of the Guantanamo child prisoner Omar Khadr. A Canadian native, Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he first entered Guantanamo only left 10 years later under a coerced plea bargain that sent him to spend 8 more years in a Canadian prison. Like the other 778 prisoners at Guantanamo since 2002, Omar Khadr was tortured physically and mentally. He suffers permanent damage (he lost one eye at Guantanamo and is in present danger of losing the other eye now due to lack of proper medical treatment in Canada).
In 2010 Sujit Choudry was an attorney with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and was co-counsel on a brief on behalf of Omar Khadr before Canada’s Supreme Court (which did rule that the Canadian government had violated Khadr’s rights). So Dean Choudry knows well the story of Omar Khadr’s torture, and presumably had to study up on what happened in that prison more generally. People who remember the former dean’s protection of John Yoo are hopeful that the new dean will understand his duty to open a full investigation under UC rules into John Yoo’s work enabling illegal torture, and move that process toward firing Yoo.
Sharon Adams and Therese Davis delivered to the dean’s door a petition organized by the National Lawyers Guild, protesting the awarding of the endowed chair to Torture Professor John Yoo, and bearing over 3,000 signatures gathered in just a few months. The dean wasn’t home to receive his guests, but you can hear some back-and-forth between the dean’s chief of staff and Sharon Adams and Ann Fagan Ginger, and Susan Harman. (The male voice is the law school’s public relations officer. He admitted to us that he “doesn’t think much about” what international or U.S. law say about torture.)
Outside the dean’s office hang several original paintings by Fernando Botero. They depict his nightmarish vision of the torture at Abu Ghraib. Many find this juxtaposition of proudly displaying the Abu Ghraib paintings, at the school which allows the lawyer whose work product enabled this grotesque, violent mistreatment and murder under official U.S. authority, just too bizarre for words. But we did end our visit to the dean, with a solemn presentation by Janet Weil (Code Pink) of a poem written by a Guantanamo prisoner, Mohammed el Gharani.
With no police in sight to clear the halls, we held a circle conversation for another half hour, grappling with this anniversary of torture, the incredible situation that Guantanamo is still open, and what next steps could be taken toward both closing Guantanamo AND forcing the prosecution of all those responsible including John Yoo.
January 13, 2015, UC Berkeley Law: On the second afternoon of the new semester, 35 people arrived at Boalt Hall for a press conference and speak-out. Called by the local chapters of World Can’t Wait, the National Lawyers Guild, and Code Pink, this protest marked the 13th anniversary of Guantánamo and raised three demands: Close Guantanamo Now – Prosecute All the Torturers – and Fire, Disbar and Prosecute John Yoo.
There’s a wonderful 20-minute “minidocumentary” radio broadcast highlighting the event that was aired later that afternoon on KPFA’s Flashpoints news show, produced by Dennis Bernstein (more below). Listen here: www.flashpoints.net/?p=4377
Under signs and banners carried by protesters wearing jumpsuits and hoods, the speak-out was a powerful collection of voices, kicked off by Stephanie Tang (World Can’t Wait) and attorney Sharon Adams for the National Lawyers Guild. Three Berkeley Law alums next took the bullhorn, all well-known for their life’s work as lawyers defending justice and rights: Ann Fagan Ginger, Dan Siegel , and Stephen Bingham all spoke to the total outrage of having illegal torture condoned as legal, and having a war criminal teaching at Boalt. Bingham spoke of the anger growing among many alumni over UC’s newest reward to Yoo, the oldest endowed chair in the law school. Toby Blome from Code Pink made the connections between the drone wars and the torture. Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist and Chelsea Manning Support Network) brought solidarity from military resisters and recalled that one result of Chelsea’s courage was the release of the Guantanamo Files. Nova from the Revolution Club called on us all to see the connections under a system that generates these abuses and police brutality and murder at home, and to look to a whole different world. And a Boalt law student stepped forward to tell of her shame at having Yoo teaching here, and to say today she was joining this group in protest.
Then led by the “prisoners” and banners, the whole speak-out crowd filed into the law school and marched to the office of Boalt’s new dean, Sujit Choudry. We carried photographs of the Guantanamo child prisoner Omar Khadr. A Canadian native, Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he first entered Guantanamo only left 10 years later under a coerced plea bargain that sent him to spend 8 more years in a Canadian prison. Like the other 778 prisoners at Guantanamo since 2002, Omar Khadr was tortured physically and mentally. He suffers permanent damage (he lost one eye at Guantanamo and is in present danger of losing the other eye now due to lack of proper medical treatment in Canada).
In 2010 Sujit Choudry was an attorney with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and was co-counsel on a brief on behalf of Omar Khadr before Canada’s Supreme Court (which did rule that the Canadian government had violated Khadr’s rights). So Dean Choudry knows well the story of Omar Khadr’s torture, and presumably had to study up on what happened in that prison more generally. People who remember the former dean’s protection of John Yoo are hopeful that the new dean will understand his duty to open a full investigation under UC rules into John Yoo’s work enabling illegal torture, and move that process toward firing Yoo.
Sharon Adams and Therese Davis delivered to the dean’s door a petition organized by the National Lawyers Guild, protesting the awarding of the endowed chair to Torture Professor John Yoo, and bearing over 3,000 signatures gathered in just a few months. The dean wasn’t home to receive his guests, but you can hear some back-and-forth between the dean’s chief of staff and Sharon Adams and Ann Fagan Ginger, and Susan Harman. (The male voice is the law school’s public relations officer. He admitted to us that he “doesn’t think much about” what international or U.S. law say about torture.)
Outside the dean’s office hang several original paintings by Fernando Botero. They depict his nightmarish vision of the torture at Abu Ghraib. Many find this juxtaposition of proudly displaying the Abu Ghraib paintings, at the school which allows the lawyer whose work product enabled this grotesque, violent mistreatment and murder under official U.S. authority, just too bizarre for words. But we did end our visit to the dean, with a solemn presentation by Janet Weil (Code Pink) of a poem written by a Guantanamo prisoner, Mohammed el Gharani.
With no police in sight to clear the halls, we held a circle conversation for another half hour, grappling with this anniversary of torture, the incredible situation that Guantanamo is still open, and what next steps could be taken toward both closing Guantanamo AND forcing the prosecution of all those responsible including John Yoo.
January 13, 2015, UC Berkeley Law: On the second afternoon of the new semester, 35 people arrived at Boalt Hall for a press conference and speak-out. Called by the local chapters of World Can’t Wait, the National Lawyers Guild, and Code Pink, this protest marked the 13th anniversary of Guantánamo and raised three demands: Close Guantanamo Now – Prosecute All the Torturers – and Fire, Disbar and Prosecute John Yoo.
There’s a wonderful 20-minute “minidocumentary” radio broadcast highlighting the event that was aired later that afternoon on KPFA’s Flashpoints news show, produced by Dennis Bernstein (more below). Listen here: www.flashpoints.net/?p=4377
Under signs and banners carried by protesters wearing jumpsuits and hoods, the speak-out was a powerful collection of voices, kicked off by Stephanie Tang (World Can’t Wait) and attorney Sharon Adams for the National Lawyers Guild. Three Berkeley Law alums next took the bullhorn, all well-known for their life’s work as lawyers defending justice and rights: Ann Fagan Ginger, Dan Siegel , and Stephen Bingham all spoke to the total outrage of having illegal torture condoned as legal, and having a war criminal teaching at Boalt. Bingham spoke of the anger growing among many alumni over UC’s newest reward to Yoo, the oldest endowed chair in the law school. Toby Blome from Code Pink made the connections between the drone wars and the torture. Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist and Chelsea Manning Support Network) brought solidarity from military resisters and recalled that one result of Chelsea’s courage was the release of the Guantanamo Files. Nova from the Revolution Club called on us all to see the connections under a system that generates these abuses and police brutality and murder at home, and to look to a whole different world. And a Boalt law student stepped forward to tell of her shame at having Yoo teaching here, and to say today she was joining this group in protest.
Then led by the “prisoners” and banners, the whole speak-out crowd filed into the law school and marched to the office of Boalt’s new dean, Sujit Choudry. We carried photographs of the Guantanamo child prisoner Omar Khadr. A Canadian native, Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he first entered Guantanamo only left 10 years later under a coerced plea bargain that sent him to spend 8 more years in a Canadian prison. Like the other 778 prisoners at Guantanamo since 2002, Omar Khadr was tortured physically and mentally. He suffers permanent damage (he lost one eye at Guantanamo and is in present danger of losing the other eye now due to lack of proper medical treatment in Canada).
In 2010 Sujit Choudry was an attorney with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and was co-counsel on a brief on behalf of Omar Khadr before Canada’s Supreme Court (which did rule that the Canadian government had violated Khadr’s rights). So Dean Choudry knows well the story of Omar Khadr’s torture, and presumably had to study up on what happened in that prison more generally. People who remember the former dean’s protection of John Yoo are hopeful that the new dean will understand his duty to open a full investigation under UC rules into John Yoo’s work enabling illegal torture, and move that process toward firing Yoo.
Sharon Adams and Therese Davis delivered to the dean’s door a petition organized by the National Lawyers Guild, protesting the awarding of the endowed chair to Torture Professor John Yoo, and bearing over 3,000 signatures gathered in just a few months. The dean wasn’t home to receive his guests, but you can hear some back-and-forth between the dean’s chief of staff and Sharon Adams and Ann Fagan Ginger, and Susan Harman. (The male voice is the law school’s public relations officer. He admitted to us that he “doesn’t think much about” what international or U.S. law say about torture.)
Outside the dean’s office hang several original paintings by Fernando Botero. They depict his nightmarish vision of the torture at Abu Ghraib. Many find this juxtaposition of proudly displaying the Abu Ghraib paintings, at the school which allows the lawyer whose work product enabled this grotesque, violent mistreatment and murder under official U.S. authority, just too bizarre for words. But we did end our visit to the dean, with a solemn presentation by Janet Weil (Code Pink) of a poem written by a Guantanamo prisoner, Mohammed el Gharani.
With no police in sight to clear the halls, we held a circle conversation for another half hour, grappling with this anniversary of torture, the incredible situation that Guantanamo is still open, and what next steps could be taken toward both closing Guantanamo AND forcing the prosecution of all those responsible including John Yoo.
January 13, 2015, UC Berkeley Law: On the second afternoon of the new semester, 35 people arrived at Boalt Hall for a press conference and speak-out. Called by the local chapters of World Can’t Wait, the National Lawyers Guild, and Code Pink, this protest marked the 13th anniversary of Guantánamo and raised three demands: Close Guantanamo Now – Prosecute All the Torturers – and Fire, Disbar and Prosecute John Yoo.
There’s a wonderful 20-minute “minidocumentary” radio broadcast highlighting the event that was aired later that afternoon on KPFA’s Flashpoints news show, produced by Dennis Bernstein (more below). Listen here: www.flashpoints.net/?p=4377
Under signs and banners carried by protesters wearing jumpsuits and hoods, the speak-out was a powerful collection of voices, kicked off by Stephanie Tang (World Can’t Wait) and attorney Sharon Adams for the National Lawyers Guild. Three Berkeley Law alums next took the bullhorn, all well-known for their life’s work as lawyers defending justice and rights: Ann Fagan Ginger, Dan Siegel , and Stephen Bingham all spoke to the total outrage of having illegal torture condoned as legal, and having a war criminal teaching at Boalt. Bingham spoke of the anger growing among many alumni over UC’s newest reward to Yoo, the oldest endowed chair in the law school. Toby Blome from Code Pink made the connections between the drone wars and the torture. Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist and Chelsea Manning Support Network) brought solidarity from military resisters and recalled that one result of Chelsea’s courage was the release of the Guantanamo Files. Nova from the Revolution Club called on us all to see the connections under a system that generates these abuses and police brutality and murder at home, and to look to a whole different world. And a Boalt law student stepped forward to tell of her shame at having Yoo teaching here, and to say today she was joining this group in protest.
Then led by the “prisoners” and banners, the whole speak-out crowd filed into the law school and marched to the office of Boalt’s new dean, Sujit Choudry. We carried photographs of the Guantanamo child prisoner Omar Khadr. A Canadian native, Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he first entered Guantanamo only left 10 years later under a coerced plea bargain that sent him to spend 8 more years in a Canadian prison. Like the other 778 prisoners at Guantanamo since 2002, Omar Khadr was tortured physically and mentally. He suffers permanent damage (he lost one eye at Guantanamo and is in present danger of losing the other eye now due to lack of proper medical treatment in Canada).
In 2010 Sujit Choudry was an attorney with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and was co-counsel on a brief on behalf of Omar Khadr before Canada’s Supreme Court (which did rule that the Canadian government had violated Khadr’s rights). So Dean Choudry knows well the story of Omar Khadr’s torture, and presumably had to study up on what happened in that prison more generally. People who remember the former dean’s protection of John Yoo are hopeful that the new dean will understand his duty to open a full investigation under UC rules into John Yoo’s work enabling illegal torture, and move that process toward firing Yoo.
Sharon Adams and Therese Davis delivered to the dean’s door a petition organized by the National Lawyers Guild, protesting the awarding of the endowed chair to Torture Professor John Yoo, and bearing over 3,000 signatures gathered in just a few months. The dean wasn’t home to receive his guests, but you can hear some back-and-forth between the dean’s chief of staff and Sharon Adams and Ann Fagan Ginger, and Susan Harman. (The male voice is the law school’s public relations officer. He admitted to us that he “doesn’t think much about” what international or U.S. law say about torture.)
Outside the dean’s office hang several original paintings by Fernando Botero. They depict his nightmarish vision of the torture at Abu Ghraib. Many find this juxtaposition of proudly displaying the Abu Ghraib paintings, at the school which allows the lawyer whose work product enabled this grotesque, violent mistreatment and murder under official U.S. authority, just too bizarre for words. But we did end our visit to the dean, with a solemn presentation by Janet Weil (Code Pink) of a poem written by a Guantanamo prisoner, Mohammed el Gharani.
With no police in sight to clear the halls, we held a circle conversation for another half hour, grappling with this anniversary of torture, the incredible situation that Guantanamo is still open, and what next steps could be taken toward both closing Guantanamo AND forcing the prosecution of all those responsible including John Yoo.
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January 13, 2015, UC Berkeley Law: On the second afternoon of the new semester, 35 people arrived at Boalt Hall for a press conference and speak-out. Called by the local chapters of World Can’t Wait, the National Lawyers Guild, and Code Pink, this protest marked the 13th anniversary of Guantánamo and raised three demands: Close Guantanamo Now – Prosecute All the Torturers – and Fire, Disbar and Prosecute John Yoo.
There’s a wonderful 20-minute “minidocumentary” radio broadcast highlighting the event that was aired later that afternoon on KPFA’s Flashpoints news show, produced by Dennis Bernstein (more below). Listen here: www.flashpoints.net/?p=4377
Under signs and banners carried by protesters wearing jumpsuits and hoods, the speak-out was a powerful collection of voices, kicked off by Stephanie Tang (World Can’t Wait) and attorney Sharon Adams for the National Lawyers Guild. Three Berkeley Law alums next took the bullhorn, all well-known for their life’s work as lawyers defending justice and rights: Ann Fagan Ginger, Dan Siegel , and Stephen Bingham all spoke to the total outrage of having illegal torture condoned as legal, and having a war criminal teaching at Boalt. Bingham spoke of the anger growing among many alumni over UC’s newest reward to Yoo, the oldest endowed chair in the law school. Toby Blome from Code Pink made the connections between the drone wars and the torture. Jeff Paterson (Courage to Resist and Chelsea Manning Support Network) brought solidarity from military resisters and recalled that one result of Chelsea’s courage was the release of the Guantanamo Files. Nova from the Revolution Club called on us all to see the connections under a system that generates these abuses and police brutality and murder at home, and to look to a whole different world. And a Boalt law student stepped forward to tell of her shame at having Yoo teaching here, and to say today she was joining this group in protest.
Then led by the “prisoners” and banners, the whole speak-out crowd filed into the law school and marched to the office of Boalt’s new dean, Sujit Choudry. We carried photographs of the Guantanamo child prisoner Omar Khadr. A Canadian native, Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he first entered Guantanamo only left 10 years later under a coerced plea bargain that sent him to spend 8 more years in a Canadian prison. Like the other 778 prisoners at Guantanamo since 2002, Omar Khadr was tortured physically and mentally. He suffers permanent damage (he lost one eye at Guantanamo and is in present danger of losing the other eye now due to lack of proper medical treatment in Canada).
In 2010 Sujit Choudry was an attorney with the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, and was co-counsel on a brief on behalf of Omar Khadr before Canada’s Supreme Court (which did rule that the Canadian government had violated Khadr’s rights). So Dean Choudry knows well the story of Omar Khadr’s torture, and presumably had to study up on what happened in that prison more generally. People who remember the former dean’s protection of John Yoo are hopeful that the new dean will understand his duty to open a full investigation under UC rules into John Yoo’s work enabling illegal torture, and move that process toward firing Yoo.
Sharon Adams and Therese Davis delivered to the dean’s door a petition organized by the National Lawyers Guild, protesting the awarding of the endowed chair to Torture Professor John Yoo, and bearing over 3,000 signatures gathered in just a few months. The dean wasn’t home to receive his guests, but you can hear some back-and-forth between the dean’s chief of staff and Sharon Adams and Ann Fagan Ginger, and Susan Harman. (The male voice is the law school’s public relations officer. He admitted to us that he “doesn’t think much about” what international or U.S. law say about torture.)
Outside the dean’s office hang several original paintings by Fernando Botero. They depict his nightmarish vision of the torture at Abu Ghraib. Many find this juxtaposition of proudly displaying the Abu Ghraib paintings, at the school which allows the lawyer whose work product enabled this grotesque, violent mistreatment and murder under official U.S. authority, just too bizarre for words. But we did end our visit to the dean, with a solemn presentation by Janet Weil (Code Pink) of a poem written by a Guantanamo prisoner, Mohammed el Gharani.
With no police in sight to clear the halls, we held a circle conversation for another half hour, grappling with this anniversary of torture, the incredible situation that Guantanamo is still open, and what next steps could be taken toward both closing Guantanamo AND forcing the prosecution of all those responsible including John Yoo.
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National Security Officer helped to buy medicine, paid for transportation. I riched the house, where my son studied - had a fever, was thirsty and hungry. My son rejected murderer of his grandmother, and rejected murderer's surname, rejected Devil's existence, I also did that in 1994. The murderer of my Mother is having Police, others under control with his record of bribes, attempts to kill, brutally attacked us in his country/continent (without punishment). Through others wealthy thief of our properties is arranging for us threats of death, beat Police and bought them, while others (poor) the detectives are torturing in their office of CID (Criminal Investigation Department) in front of my face - their victim screamed in pain. Police and bribery. I told them that is against human rights - they were aggressive against me (they expect not any media, or righteousness for their business). They had to calculate money, and I went back to the office of Against Human Trafficking Units, where the former bodyguard of Regional Minister of past government, who sent my murdered in Ghana Mother to the grave with Regional Commander of Bureau of National Investigation in RCC's coffin. The former Minister's bodyguard also clearly heard loud screams from other building, said that I have to admit: his boss was good to us Europeans, one Police worker, who sometime ago was a witness of bad situation in investigation office of Domestic Violence and Victims Units, where failed for past 3 weeks worker had influence from one racist (who they called T.T - Tettey, who with one Setina following the murderer of my Mother the same as one those, who close to the Regional Police Commander's office, where I was sent 3 times from different offices to discuss about our weekly court's maintenance cheque unsuccessfully). His assistant also praised Doctor-racist-murderer abortions/narcotics dealer. So, what was good with past government? Nothing for my Mother. The murderer is hidden. Nothing good for us white foreigners - plain unjust, blank response for SOS. At racists political end, we had weekly court's maintenance cheques in front of the Regional Ministry after unity of all and abuse/racism in the Regional Ministry (then we were taking back with current government, as usual, had no weekly court's maintenance for 3-6 days (when in reports we mention 3-5 days was no food that was not over, usually with +1 day in addition of starvation tortures ended in real but missed in reports as an extra complication and expenditure). Police workers are knowing: on 19/04/13, the representative of current government threw us without weekly court's maintenance cheque for 3 days - back to 2005-2007, where bribed Police individuals still ruling HQ...
Corrupted politicians, bribed Police are pushing us to their grave of unjust, turned us into hostages, food beggars. Around our house our opponents are celebrating their victory of inhumane hospitality, mentioned about power of AU against us Europeans.
Sometimes, I am thinking about UNICEF - Ghana UNICEF with our official 8 years of SOS for SAFETY/LIBERTY/POLITICAL SHELTER left my son with tortures, life threats to die, but my son determined to study with my support, and alone online, grew with dreams of FREEDOM FROM TORTURES, and we are walking through the valley of the shadow of death to liberty with international support daily expectation.
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politicians hid crimes but we believed in justice and had hope to have freedom from human trafficking
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