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Listener Action: Because You Can Make A Difference

There are many ways to get involved. Please take one step, no matter how small. Educate yourself. Write your representatives. Tell your friends, your church, your family. Whatever you can do, do it.

These links relate to the A World of Possibilities program “Strange Fruit: Torture and the War on Terror ”.

Amnesty International: Guantánamo Bay - a human rights scandal. See the “What can you do page from Amnesty International.

Human Rights Watch believes that international standards of human rights apply to all people equally, and that sharp vigilance and timely protest can prevent the tragedies of the twentieth century from recurring.

Frontline: The Torture Question In "The Torture Question", FRONTLINE traces the history of how decisions made in Washington in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 -- including an internal administration battle over the Geneva Conventions -- led to a robust interrogation policy that laid the groundwork for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Iraq.

Outsourcing Torture The secret history of America’s “extraordinary rendition” program. By JANE MAYER in the New Yorker, Issue of 2005-02-14

Power turns good soldiers into 'bad apples' By Philip G. Zimbardo, The Boston Globe, May 9, 2004

The Road to Guantanamo Film by Michael Winterbottom MSNBC article on movie


FULL INTERVIEWS WITH

Janis Karpinski, Former Commander of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
Thomas Wilner, Attorney for six Kuwaiti prisoners Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, Partner in the law firm of Shearman and Sterling
Susan Fiske, Social Psychologist, Professor at Princeton University




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