Brown Amnesty International presents the series

The America I Believe In: Human Rights and the War on Terror

"Guantanamo and Beyond - US Lawlessness in the 'War on Terror'" Address by Jumana Musa
Jumana Musa is a human rights attorney and activist. She is currently the Advocacy Director for Domestic Human Rights and International Justice at Amnesty International, where she addresses the domestic and international impact of the Bush administration's "war on terror" on human rights. She has also served as Amnesty International's legal observer at military commission proceedings at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Monday 9 April. Barus & Holley 166. 7pm


"A Path to Justice for the Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" Talk by Susan Burke and Screening of “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib”
Susan Burke is an attorney in a Saleh v. Titan, a case against the government contractors who participated in torturing and abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison and other prisons in Iraq. Some of her clients are featured in the film. Susan L. Burke is a founding member of Burke O'Neil LLC. She has defended and prosecuted class actions involving varied allegations such as breaches of ERISA fiduciary obligations, disability discrimination in public housing, failure to provide mental health services and toxic torts.
HBO documentary Ghosts of Abu Ghraib looks beyond the headlines to investigate the psychological and political context in which torture occurred. For the first time, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib features both the voices of Iraqi victims (interviewed in Turkey after arduous attempts to meet with them) and guards directly involved in torture at the prison.
Cosponsored by Operation Iraqi Freedom: Brown's Antiwar Group and Brown Amnesty International
Tuesday 10 April. MacMillan Hall 115. 7:30pm


"War, Violence and States of Exception" Discussion with Professor Bogues
Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence and the current  chair of the department. Bogues‘s major research and writing interests are intellectual and cultural history, radical political thought and critical theory as well as Caribbean and African politics.  He is the author of Caliban’s Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James (1997); Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (2003) Empire of Liberty: Power. Imperial Freedom and Desire (Forthcoming).
Wednesday 11 April. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street. 7:30pm


Film: “Frontline: The Torture Question”
In "The Torture Question", PBS Frontline, traces the history of how decisions made in Washington in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 -- including an internal administration battle over the Geneva Conventions -- led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Iraq. "The Torture Question" provides the context for understanding how the rules were confused, how lines of authority were blurred, and what happens when the authorization of "coercive interrogation" makes it way into the battle zone.
Monday 16 April. Smith-Buonanno 106. 7pm


Dramatic Reading of Play "As American As"
Staged reading of Ken Prestininzi's award-winning (Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2006) play "As American As", which explores torture and terror on the American family.
Ken is a professional playwright/director and graduate student in Theatre and Performance Studies (ABD) at Brown University.
Wednesday 18 April. Wilson Hall 102. 7pm


"Prisons Beyond The Law: An Examination of Post-9/11 Detentions – Where We've Been, Where We're Going" Talk by Joseph Margulies
Professor Margulies is an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center and an Associate Clinical Professor at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago. Margulies was lead counsel in Rasul v. Bush, involving the detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, and in Habib v. Bush, involving the rendition of Mamdouh Habib from Pakistan to Egypt. In June 2005, at the invitation of Pennsylvania Republican Senator Arlen Specter, Margulies testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on detainee issues. He writes and lectures widely on civil liberties in the wake of September 11 and plays a leading role in coordinating the litigation nationwide challenging the Bush Administration's post-9/11 detention policy. He is also the author of Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (Simon and Schuster 2006), named one of the best books of 2006 by The Economist Magazine.
Monday 23 April. List Art Center 120. 7pm


“Race, Immigration and the War on Terror" Talk by Tram Nguyen
Tram Nguyen, Executive Editor of ColorLines Magazine, is an award-winning writer and editor with a particular interest in race, immigration and organizing. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the anthology Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, Amerasia Journal, AlterNet, New California Media, the Boston Globe, the anthology The New Faces of Asian Pacific America: Numbers, Diversity and Change in the 21st Century, and the anthology New Horizon: 25 Vietnamese Americans in 25 Years. Tram's extensive coverage of civil liberties earned her a New California Media Award in 2003. Tram's book, We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories From Immigrant Communities After 9/11 (Beacon) was released in September 2005.
Wednesday 25 April. MacMillan Hall 117. 7pm

Stop by the Upper Blue Room in Faunce House to see the accompanying photo exhibit!
All events are free and open to the public.
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Many thanks to our sponsors: Undergraduate Finance Board, Global Security Program of the Watson Institute for International Relations, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Office of the Dean of the College, Office of Institutional Diversity, the Office of Student Life, the Third World Center, Campus Progress, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Department of American Civilization.