Downloadable Actions
Here is a list of resources and information you can use to take action at your next house party and help make it truly successful!
-Fact Sheet: Outsourcing Abuses in the "War on Terror"
Background information on torture, shootings, and abuse related to private military and security contractors. » PDF
-Petition to the Justice Department: Investigate and Prosecute Military Contractors Who Torture
The Army’s Fay / Jones and Taguba reports investigating abuse at Abu Ghraib implicated contractors from two companies in torture and ill treatment. Yet of the 20 known cases of abuse allegedly committed by civilians that have been forwarded to the Department of Justice, and the hundreds of serious incident reports voluntarily filed with U.S. authorities in Iraq, only one trial has been initiated. Amnesty International condemns torture and abuse committed in the name of the War on Terror and demands that those responsible for the abuses be brought to justice in accordance with U.S. obligations under international and domestic law. Accountability is a critical component of enforcing human rights. » Download
-Petition to the Titan Corporation: Concern about Private Military Contractors
The Titan Corporation has supplied thousands of Arabic translators for its operations in Iraq, many of whom have allegedly translated interrogators’ threats of death, rape, rape of family members, as well as having allegedly participated in direct violence against detainees during interrogation. Amnesty International condemns the abuses allegedly committed by U.S. agents in the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq as torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. AI has documented a pattern of abuses by U.S. agents against detainees in this and other facilities and we feel that those responsible for abuses should be brought to justice in accordance with U.S. obligations under international and domestic law. » Download
-Executive Order Action: Letter to the Senate
Recently, President Bush issued an executive order outlining what parameters apply to the "CIA detention program." The order came with classified guidance to the CIA that detailed what specific techniques were available to the CIA beyond those allowed by the Army Field Manual. These techniques likely violate the ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and, especially when used in combination, could amount to torture. In addition, these techniques are being applied to a program of enforced disappearance and secret detentions in violation of international law. Urge Congress to end secret detention and torture in CIA black sites. » Download
