Friday, October 9, 2009

cancelled: Nan Aron speaks out against torture Nov 9 in Seattle

event has been cancelled; Town Hall hopes to re-schedule
Monday November 9, 7:30 pm, at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue at Seneca Street, downstairs, enter on Seneca Street, Seattle

Town Hall presents Nan Aron: Bringing Justice to Torturers.

Attorney General Eric Holder, writes Alliance for Justice president and founder Nan Aron, is a man on a hot seat that's getting hotter. Holder reportedly is authorizing a criminal investigation into the mistreatment of detainees by CIA interrogators, but President Obama has said he does not support a special commission. And some big names would be sure to come up in any kind of investigation: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, George Tenet, John Ashcroft, and Condoleezza Rice. But Aron thinks Holder needs to go even further: While a full-scale investigation of the use of torture by the United States government will stir up passions on both sides, she writes, "it is our only hope for reaching some national consensus on the torture issue." Aron has been a leading voice in public-interest law for more than 30 years, and helped defeat Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987.

Presented by Alliance for Justice and the Town Hall Center for Civic Life.

Tickets $5 at http://www.brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006, or at the door beginning at 6:30 pm.

info http://www.townhallseattle.org/

Note: this is not a WSRCAT event but we are in total agreement with Nan Aron's opinion that Holder needs to go further! We want accountability for the decision makers who authorized torture.

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