Speaking in Brookline MA on Thursday
For readers in Massachusetts, I will be speaking at 7:00 PM at the Brookline Public Library in Coolidge Corner (31 Pleasant Street) on Thursday January 25th on Guantanamo and Torture: Considering Our National Nightmare. Speaking with me will be Jeff Gleason:
Jeff Gleason is a litigator in the Boston office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP (“WilmerHale”). For more than two years, Jeff and several of his colleagues at WilmerHale have represented six men imprisoned at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the suit filed on their clients behalf, Boumediene v. Bush, et al. In the course of the WilmerHale team’s representation, Jeff has participated in briefing and preparation for oral argument at both the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. and the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He has also assisted with diplomatic efforts to secure justice for his clients. In August, Jeff had the opportunity to visit his clients at Guantanamo.
This spring, Jeff will teach an undergraduate class, Understanding Guantanamo, at Tufts University’s Ex College.
My talk will focus on the role of psychologists in the Guantanamo interrogation process and our attempts to force the American Psychological Association to come out against this participation.
The meeting is sponsored by Brookline PeaceWorks [peace@texnology.com] and will include a Discussion led by Joan Ecklein of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and a UMass Professor emeritus.
For further information email peace@texnology.com or call: 617 738-8029.
UPDATE:
The talk will be preceded by a Fundraising Dinner for the Center for Constitutional Righrs at Fugakyu Restaurant 1280 Beacon St., Brookline. You can meet the speakers there. [RSVP required so they can make reservations.]
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