"Torture on Trial" – DVD House Party
Join folks across America in building support for accountability for torture by hosting a house party screening of Link TV's compelling new 30-minute documentary, "Torture on Trial." Use the screening to inspire your guests to send an email to President Obama and call the White House.
» Host a DVD House Party/Special Screening of the documentary "Torture on Trial"
Watch the documentary "Torture on Trial" online.
President Obama has taken a number of disturbing steps backwards since his announcement to close Guantanamo, including rejecting an independent commission of inquiry into torture and endorsing revised, yet still unfair, military commissions and indefinite detention. These steps threaten values of justice, fairness and human rights. Join us and millions of others worldwide in speaking in one voice to change President Obama's mind.
ACTIONS
After you and your house party guests watch Link TV's new documentary "Torture on Trial", make the most of your house parties by encouraging your guests to take meaningful action to change President Obama's mind about investigating torture and about using military commissions and indefinite detention:
- Register now to host your own house party screening of "Torture on Trial"
- Download our house party action guide (PDF) to find out more about our national call-in to the White House,
- Send an email to President Obama
LATEST NEWS
In a major speech on national security on May 21, 2009, President Barack Obama rightly restated his commitment to closing the Guantánamo detention facility and to ending the use of the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved under the previous US administration.
So it is a disturbing step backwards that he also:
- stated his opposition to a independent commission of inquiry into human rights violations committed in the "war on terror";
- clarified his decision to pursue revised versions of military commissions begun by President George W. Bush;
- endorsed the global "war" paradigm developed under President Bush and pointed to the possibility that the US would develop a preventive detention regime within that paradigm.
Now is the time to urge President Obama and other leaders in Congress to do the right thing to close the book on torture, unfair trials and illegal detention.
RESOURCES
Print and share them at your house party!
- "Torture on Trial" House Party Action Guide (PDF)
- New York Times article about how letters reach the President
- Read report: Accountability For Human Rights Violations In The 'War On Terror'
- Link TV's Accountability action page
Need a "Torture on Trial" DVD for your house party? Email ctwj@aiusa.org to borrow a dvd copy. There is a limited supply; DVDs will be sent on a first come, first serve basis. We encourage you to show the film online, through Link TV's website.
