A time comes when silence is betrayal . . . We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness so close around us.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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U.S. and Torture
A Religious Call to Action
CONFERENCE AGENDA
June 17, 2006
River Road Unitarian Church, Bethesda, Maryland
8:30 Coffee, rolls, registration
9:00 Invocation - Bishop John Bryson Chane, read by Rev. Doc. Nancy C. James, Priest Associate, St. John's Lafayette Square Episcopal Church
9:05 Welcome - Reverend Scott Alexander,
Senior Minister, River Road Unitarian Church
9:10 Overview of the Conference - Linda Gustitus, Chair, WRRCAT
9:15 A View from the U.S. Senate - The Honorable Senator Carl Levin,
Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee
10:00 Break
10:15 Exposing the Story - Seymour Hersh, Pulitizer Prize-Winning Reporter
11:00 What the U.S. Has Done - Elisa Massimino, Director, Washington Office,
Human Rights First
11:30 On the Ground in Iraq - Beth Pyles, Christian Peacemaker Team
Noon What We Can Do - Working Lunch--Steve France, Co-Founder, WRRCAT
1:30 The Reality of Torture -
The Law on Torture -- Jennifer Harbury, TASCC
The Experience of Torture - Mario Avila, TASSC
2:15 Break
2:30 Torture is Wrong and It Doesn't Work - Raymond McGovern, 27 year veteran of the CIA
2:50 The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) - Jeanne Herrick-Stare,
Chair of NRCAT's Coordinating Committee; Senior Fellow, Friends
Committee on National Legislation
3:00 The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture (WRRCAT) -
Linda Gustitus, Chair
3:10 Benediction - Rev. Dr. Janet Parker, Associate Pastor for Parish Life,
Rocky Springs Congregational UCC, Arlington, Virginia