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Title:
Guantanamo Nine Years Later: Issues of Torture and Detention
When:
01.12.2011 - 01.12.2011 19.00
Where:
St. Clement School - Chicago
Category:
Speaking Engagements

Description

Please join us on January 12, one day after the ninth anniversary of Guantanamo, to hear noted speakers H. Candace Gorman (War Criminals Watch advisor), Dr. Frank Summers and Sister Dawn Nothwehr address issues of torture and detention.

H. Candace Gorman, is a civil rights attorney who is currently representing two Guantanamo detainees. She was featured in Ron Suskind's book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism.

Dr. Summers, Ph.D., ABPP, is a supervising and training analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School and president of Psychoanalysts for Social Responsibility and has worked to prohibit psychologists from participating in detention centers.

Sister Dawn Nothwehr, O.S. F., M.A., Ph.D., is a Professor of Catholic Theological Ethics at the Catholic Theological Union and a frequent speaker on issues of social justice in the Catholic Church. She is the author of several books and contributed to an essay on the Catholic position on torture in a volume produced by the United Methodist Church on the position of major religious groups against torture.

Sponsored by the St. Clement Human Concerns Commission
Cosponsored by 8th Day Center for Justice


Transportation: Clark St. bus (#22 or #36), exit at Clark & Deming. Red, Brown, or Purple Line to the Fullerton El Train stop; walk east on Fullerton to Orchard; walk north on Orchard three blocks to the school. Parking is available in lot across St. Clement Church.

Free Event

For further information, please contact Betsy at
ews4 (at) prodigy.net

Venue

Venue:
St. Clement School
Street:
2524 N. Orchard St., Fireside Hall
City:
Chicago
State:
IL
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