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Reminder of NRCAT Interfaith Strategy Session – Friday, April 5 in Arlington, Virginia
Dear Friends,
Please attend the interfaith Strategy Session on Friday, April 5, 2013 from 2-4 p.m. sponsored by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) before the start of Ecumenical Advocacy Days. People of all faiths are encouraged to attend this important conversation without cost (Ecumenical Advocacy Days conference registration is not required). This session gives those who are supportive of NRCAT an opportunity to offer your suggestions about next steps for the program and policy efforts of NRCAT. Everyone who has participated in NRCAT’s work in any way is encouraged to attend. Please RSVP for this session.
The NRCAT strategy session will be from 2-4 p.m. on Friday, April 5 at the Doubletree Hotel in Crystal City (Arlington), VA. Madison/Monroe Rooms. Click here for directions.
Participants will be divided into two groups, one group on the issue of prolonged solitary confinement and another group for U.S.-sponsored torture of post-9/11 detainees and other torture issues. A list of the possible questions that participants will be asked to address is below my name.
Please join us for this strategy session and help shape our program and policy efforts in 2013 and beyond. There is no cost to attend the strategy session, but we ask that you please RSVP.
Following the Strategy Session, there will be two film showings of NRCAT’s films, both of which could be used during Torture Awareness Month (June 2013):
We hope to see you there.
Rich
Rev. Richard L. Killmer
Executive Director
Participants at the Strategy Session will address questions like:
- How do we urge people of faith to advocate for the release of the 6,000 page report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on CIA torture?
- How should NRCAT follow-up on the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment report, which provides a comprehensive description of U.S.-sponsored torture?
- How should NRCAT work for the codification of key elements of President Obama’s Executive Order halting torture?
- How should NRCAT involve congregations in its work to end prolonged solitary confinement?
- In what ways can NRCAT deepen partnerships with people of faith who are working with the broader movement to end mass incarceration to join NRCAT’s efforts to end prolonged solitary confinement?
- How can NRCAT work to increase the likelihood of the U.S. becoming a party to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture or to advocate for the creation of oversight mechanisms similar to those prescribed by the treaty?
- Are there additional ways NRCAT can work to help the U.S. end torture in other countries?
- How can NRCAT enable congregations to work for an end to anti-Muslim sentiment in their communities?
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