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Alliance for Justice is pleased to invite you to an exciting upcoming event, Blueprint for Accountability,
featuring a stimulating panel of the world's foremost experts and artists on the issues of torture,
democracy, and accountability--engaging the public in constructing a blueprint for a more just and
democratic future.
Details about the event can be found below, but we hope you will join us in person at the Newseum on April
22nd or watch a live stream broadcast of the event on FORA.tv. A video of the event will be available on
demand following the presentation. Campus activists are encouraged to organize a watch party or similar
event utilizing resources provided by our partner, Culture Project.
Culture Project is alarmed by the ongoing American experiment with torture. Like many around the world,
they were tempted to believe that the election of Barack Obama would change everything. The culpability
of the previous administration remains to be determined, not to mention the prosecution of those who
created and maintain this torture regime. The “Blueprint for Accountability” series is meant as an urgent call
to action for policy makers, elected officials and citizens of this nation to craft a decisive moral response
against torture.
Now in its second installment, Culture Project brings its "Blueprint for Accountability" series to
Washington, D.C. Watch a clip from last year's launch at The Times Center.
RON SUSKIND
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist
VINCE WARREN
Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
JOHN LEGUIZAMO
Emmy Award-Winning Performer
JEREMY SCAHILL
Best-Selling Author and Investigative Journalist
ROSE STYRON
Poet, Photographer and Human Rights Activist
directed by
FISHER STEVENS
Academy Award-Winning Producer, The Cove
(*participants may be subject to change)
The "Blueprint for Accountability" series at the Newseum will feature a stimulating panel of the
world's foremost experts and artists on the issues of torture, democracy, and accountability--engaging the
public in constructing a blueprint for a more just and democratic future. A brief look at the precedents set
by the Nuremberg Trials and Geneva Conventions will inform a probing discussion of the historical
framework for America's policies limiting abuses in war, and our nation's radical departure from
international human rights laws and civil liberties protections post-9/11.
If you do not live in the D.C. area, you can still tune in! The evening will be streamed live by FORA.tv with
video available on demand following the presentation.
Be a part of an event that will be instrumental in implementing policy change surrounding the investigation
of enhanced torture techniques. In 2002, Culture Project took its multiple award-winning dramatic play The
Exonerated on the road to Chicago for the National Gathering of the Death Row Exonerated. The show
inspired Illinois Governor George Ryan to commute the sentences of over 140 Illinois death row inmates.
This is the sort of action they hope to re-create as a result of the “Blueprint” series.
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