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PEN American Center and the ACLU presents
Reckoning With Torture: Memos & Testimonies From The 'War On Terror'
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Featuring: Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler, George Saunders, Susanna Moore, Ishmael Beah, Jonathan Ames, Paul Auster, AM Homes, Art Spiegelman, David Cole, former U.S. interrogator Matthew Alexander, the ACLU's Amrit Singh and others.
Length: 1 hr 30 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.
PEN American Center--one of the oldest literary and human rights organizations--joins forces with American Civil Liberties in a tribute addressing the acts of torture and abuse carried out on behalf of the United States government since 9/11. Jonathan Ames, Paul Auster, Ishmael Beah, Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler, AM Homes, Susanna Moore, George Saunders, and Art Spiegelman take the stage with Matthew Alexander (former U.S. interrogator and author of How to break a Terrorist), Jack Rice(former CIA case officer), David Cole (author of several books, including The Torture Memos) and Amrit Singh (staff attorney at the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project) to read from the recently-released secret documents that have brought these abuses to light and to reflect on how we can move forward as a |
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