Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror”
Tuesday October 13 , 2009
- By: PEN American Center, ACLU , Cooper Union
- Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
- Location:
The Great Hall, Cooper Union7 East 7th Street at Third AvenueNew York, NYMap: maps.google.com
Reckoning with Torture will call attention to acts of torture and abuse carried out by the United States after 9/11. Authors Jonathan Ames, Ishmael Beah, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler, Nell Freudenberger, AM Homes, Susanna Moore, George Saunders and Art Spiegelman will take the stage with Matthew Alexander (former U.S. interrogator and author of How to Break a Terrorist), Jack Rice (former CIA case officer), and Amrit Singh (former staff attorney for the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project) to read from recently released secret documents that have brought these abuses to light-memos, declassified communications, and testimonies by detainees. The event will also feature a special presentation by Jenny Holzer.
$15/$10 for PEN/ACLU Members and Students with a valid ID.
Tickets are available through www.smarttix.com/searchresults.aspx or (212) 868-4444. They may also be purchased at the door. Seating is by general admission, on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information, please visit www.pen.org or www.aclu.org.
