Torture Opponent Mark Danner speaks Nov 11 Seattle

Weds Nov 11, 7:30 pm, at Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue at Seneca Street, downstairs; enter on Seneca Street, Seattle

Town Hall presents Mark Danner Reports from the World’s Hot Spots.

For the past two decades, author and award-winning journalist Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East, exploring not only the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power. From the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti to the tumultuous rise of Aristide; from the onset of the Balkan Wars to the painful fragmentation of Yugoslavia; and to the invasion of Iraq and the legacy of the Bush administration, Danner, former staff writer at The New Yorker and author of "Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War", has visited some of the world’s most troubled regions, bringing back lessons on politics, violence, and war. Danner is also the author of "Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror."

Danner was recently in the news for his New York Review piece 'US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites,' which offered the first view of American torture inside secret prisons, based on a previously secret report by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Danner's pieces on torture in Stripping Bare the Body should be of particular interest.

Presented by Town Hall’s Center for Civic Life, with Elliott Bay Book Company. Series supported by RealNetworks Foundation, the Brown Foundation, and the Otto Haas Charitable Trust. Tickets $5 at http://www.brownpapertickets.com or 800-838-3006, or at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Town Hall members receive priority seating.

info http://www.townhallseattle.org or http://www.markdanner.com