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Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and Physicians for Human
Rights this Thursday, May 14, 2009 for a discussion about health professional complicity in
abuse and how it affects both New York health professionals and patients.
The recently released Office of Legal Counsel memos and ICRC 
and Senate Armed Services Committee reports undeniably confirm that doctors
and psychologists played key roles in crafting and justifying torture
tactics, inflicting suffering, overseeing abuse, calibrating pain and
enabling, covering up and turning a blind eye to torture. Learn
from local health professionals and human rights lawyers about the
issue and how you can help prevent it from happening again.
     
Featuring:

Richard N. Gottfried, NY State Assemblymember (D-75th District) & Chair, NY State Assembly
Committee on Health

Allen S. Keller, M.D, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture & Physicians for Human Rights

Dr. Steven Reisner, Coalition for an Ethical Psychology &
Physicians for Human Rights

Jamie Fellner, Esq., U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch

Jack Beck, Esq., Correctional Association
of New York

Gitanjali Gutierrez, Esq. and Deborah Popowski, J.D., Center for Constitutional Rights.

We all have an obligation to show those in power that the US refuses
to be a torturing society any longer, so that those who choose today to
cover for torturers as a matter of political expediency will come to
see the pursuit of justice as a political necessity.