Prosecute Torture
Why Demand to Prosecute Torture Will Grow
By David Swanson
(Remarks at Torture Accountability Action Day rally in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2009 — video of this and other speeches at AfterDowningStreet.org)
Have you ever held a little baby in your arms? Raise your hand if you have. A toddler is as delicate and precious as a baby, but able to move around and get hurt. Bigger kids can move faster and farther. Our instincts should be to protect them.
I was reading yesterday about a boy who was probably 12 years old when our nation
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Listen to Your Radio Tonight
Wednesday night, please listen to these two wonderful programs:
The Mike Malloy Show airs from 9 p.m. – 12 midnight ET and will be guest hosted by Brad Friedman. I’ll be on with him live at 10:30 p.m. ET. Call in!
The Nicole Sandler Show on Air America airs from 11 p.m. – 1 a.m. (More about Nicole). I taped an interview with her this afternoon that will probably air at 11:30 or 12 midnight ET.
Both of these interviews are about rallies
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Trading Press Events for Votes: What Should Press Do?
By David Swanson
On Tuesday my local newspaper reported on an event here in town on Monday. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer had come down to Charlottesville and spoken publicly with local Congressman Tom Perriello, generating a story and big color photo on page 1 of the Charlottesville Daily Progress. The headline was “In UVa visit, Democrats call deficit reckless.”
The newspaper reported on Congressman Perriello warning that he could not vote for healthcare without a way to pay
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Van Jones and Nancy Sutley visit energy-improved house in Charlottesville, Va., June 23, 2009
Creating Clean Energy Jobs: Helping People Helping the Environment
Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 11:00 a.m.
Congressman Tom Perriello
Homeowner Ingrid Feggans
Homeowner Chad Thorne
Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris
Albemarle County Supervisor Ann Mallek
Worker Michael Stewart
Chair of White House Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley
Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality Van Jones (hovering but not speaking)
Backstory: Admirable,
Rallies Around U.S. To Demand Accountability for Torture
Thursday, June 25, 2009, has been designated Torture Accountability Action Day by a large coalition of human rights groups planning rallies and marches in major U.S. cities, including a rally in Washington, D.C.’s John Marshall Park at 11 a.m. followed by a noon march to the Justice Department where some participants will risk arrest in nonviolent protest if a special prosecutor for torture is not appointed.
http://accountability4torture.com
Events are planned in Washington, D.C.; San Francisco,
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OpEdNews Exclusive Interview with Activist David Swanson
Here’s an interview I did with Joan Brunwasser of OpEdNews.com: READ IT HERE.
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What Bush Told Blair Could End the Wars
By David Swanson
In May 2005 we launched AfterDowningStreet.org to publicize the Downing Street Minutes. By June we’d had great, if fleeting, success. During the following months and years, mountains of new memos and statements emerged on the Iraq War lies, many of them more damaging than the Downing Street documents. But increasingly nobody cared, because evidence of crimes was less interesting
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Citizens Face Prosecution for Speaking Against Wars
WHAT: Four of the people featured in this report by Bill Moyers’ Journal in January ( http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01092009/watch3.html ) face prosecution for disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly.
WHEN: Monday, June 22, 2009, 9:00 a.m. ET.
WHERE: Before Judge Richard H. Ringell in the Superior Court of The District of Columbia Criminal Division, Courtroom 120.
BACKGROUND: On January 6, 2009, the first day of the 111th Congress, seventy people came to Washington D.C. from all over
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