NORTH CAROLINA
STOP TORTURE
NOW
PO Box 50345
Raleigh, NC 27650
e-mail via:
contact AT ncstoptorturenow.net
(919) 834-4478
(evenings, or messages during business hours)
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HELP OUT
What can you do to help end extraordinary rendition?
First and foremost, use our resources pages to learn about the criminal conduct your tax dollars support. Torture-by-proxy is as morally abhorrent as murder-for-hire.
Once you're convinced that torture is immoral, illegal and ineffective, share the message and teach your friends and neighbors. In the words of one NCSTN activist, the most effective work is witness.
NCSTN actively seeks to diversify individual and group membership in our coalition. If you have suggestions, would like to host a speaker at your organization's meeting, or can assist in this initiative, please let us know.
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SAVE THE DATES: April 8-10, 2010
Weaving a Net of Accountability: Taking on extraordinary rendition at the state and regional levels
NCSTN joins the Duke Human Rights Center, and the University of North Carolina School of Law Immigration & Human Rights Policy Clinic in convening a coalition of human rights, activist, legal and professional groups to coordinate a push for accountability for extraordinary rendition at the state and regional level.
In this case, accountability means:
(1) Creating a detailed and broadly available public record of North Carolina's state and local involvement in extraordinary rendition;
(2) Building alliances at the state, national and international level to push for accountability; and
(3) Working to prevent the continued use of state and local infrastructure for programs such as torture and extraordinary rendition through recommendations and new laws implemented at the local and state level.
To achieve these goals, we are organizing a conference at Duke University, April 8-10.
The conference will gather key international, national, and local activists, experts and journalists. Participating will be representatives from religious, legal, psychological, state, ethical, human rights, academic and advocacy groups.
A key goal of the conference is to organize a Commission of Inquiry for North Carolina, – composed of state, national and international public figures and experts –tasked to realize the goals described above.
IMMEDIATE SUPPORT IS NEEDED ON SEVERAL LEVELS, SUCH AS:
Developing or assisting in maintenance of a web presence;
Producing video to publicize or document the conference;
AND MOST ESPECIALLY IN REACHING OUT TO:
Local, state, and national organizations to seek co-sponsorship; and to
Writers or journalists who might chronicle the torture accountability process.
CONTACT INFORMATION IS BELOW, ABOVE, OR AT OUR CONTACT PAGE.
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JOIN US at our next Meeting
2-4 p.m., Sunday, March 14, 2010Founders' Hall
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh (UUFR)
3313 Wade Avenue
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SEND MONEY!
Donations in support of NCSTN's work may be made via the button above left, or via checks payable to :
North Carolina Stop Torture Now
and mailed to:
PO Box 50345,
Raleigh, NC 27650
Questions about how to direct donations that may qualify as charitable,
tax-deductible contributions should be directed to:
contact AT ncstoptorturenow.org
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