Reckoning with Torture

Date: Jul 31, 2012

Time: 7:30 pm

Location:
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Featuring Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU and Director of the ACLU’s Center for Democracy and co-author of “Administration of Torture”; Larry Siems, Director of PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write and International Programs and author of The Torture Report; Tony Camerino (“Matthew Alexander”), former senior military interrogator and author of Kill or Capture and the acclaimed “How to Break a Terrorist”; Col. Morris “Moe” Davis, former Chief Prosecutor of the Guantánamo military commissions; Julie Gutman,Executive Director of Program for Torture Victims; Avram Ludwig, Producer, Reckoning With Torture film project.

Join an exceptional group of writers, advocates, and former military officers who will assess where we stand in the struggle for accountability and to showcase a new national film project that shines a light not only on what went wrong but on the courageous men and women who stood up for what is right. Join us for an evening that both looks back and points the way forward for all of us to reckon with torture.
Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonials from the “War on Terror”