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Torture: From the Midwest to the Mideast

TORTURE: FROM THE MIDWEST TO THE MIDEAST
A TEACH IN/DISCUSSION

Tamms Supermax Prison | Police Torture | Guantanamo Bay
TUESDAY, APRIL 7TH
UIC: 828 S. HALSTED
BURNHAM HALL
Room 305 6:30 PM

Featuring:
*Stephen Eisenman of Tamms Year Ten - Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. He is the author of "The Abu Ghraib Effect," (London and Chicago, 2007), and active with Tamms Year Ten, a group committed to ending long-term solitary confinement in Illinois prisons.

*A Live Call-in from a prisoner and victim of police torture in Chicago

*Darrell Cannon - Former Tamms Prisoner and victim of police torture in Chicago. Cannon and more than 100 suspects were tortured at the hands of Jon Burge and his subordinates. Burge is now facing federal charges.

*Marc Falkoff is law professor at Northern Illinois University, where he teaches courses in criminal law and criminal procedure. Since 2004, he has represented 17 Yemeni prisoners being held by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay. He is the compiler and editor of Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, a best-selling anthology of prisoner poetry.

Brought to you by:
Campaign to End the Death Penalty,
Tamms Year 10,
UIC Socialist Club

For more information, email julien (at) nodeathpenalty.org or nadya.pittendrigh (at) gmail.com; or call 773-955-4841
 
 

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