Free Dramatic Reading

The Sort of Happy Ending To the Sad Tale of Mr. Ali Ali
Or: The Lighter Side of Outsourcing Torture
A Short Play By Craig Abernethy

William J. Aceves

• Professor of Law and Director, International Legal Studies Program, California Western School of Law

Michael D. Ramsey

• Professor of Constitutional and Foreign Relations Law, University of San Diego School of Law

Craig Abernethy

• Playwright

Videotaped interview with Marjorie Cohn, Internationnnal Law Professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Executive Vice President, National Lawyers Guild; and Contributing Editor to Truthout

Event will be followed by audience discussion

Amnesty International and
The International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego

present
a FREE dramatic reading of the critically acclaimed play

GUANTANAMO: Honor Bound To Defend Freedom

By Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo, taken from spoken evidence.
Directed by Dale Morris, managing director of 6th @ Penn Theatre

One Performance Only!

*** NOTE: Seating is Limited. Please call 619-260-7509 to RSVP. ***

Join the POST-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION with the actors and Professor William J. Aceves, Director of the International Legal Studies Program at California Western School of Law, and Gwen Young, director of human rights for the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice.

Weaving together personal stories, legal opinion, and political debate, this play looks at the questions surrounding the detentions in Guantanamo Bay, and asks how much damage is being done to Western democratic values during the "war on terror."

"Deeply moving... exerts an icy visceral charge."
-- The New York Times

"This is political theatre at its best - marvellously acted, movingly humane, genuinely eye-opening."
-- The Daily Telegraph (London, UK)

Co-Sponsored by The International Legal Studies Program at California Western School of Law, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, and Women's Equity Council of the United Nations Association

For additional information, contact info@imohr.org

Directions are available at
http://peace.sandiego.edu/directions%20to%20ipj.shtml

TPlease join the International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego and the Women's Equity Council of the United Nations Association of San Diego in a discussion on election results and future directions for the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Dale Kelly Bankhead spotlights ACLU's work on the future of civil rights legislation.

Environmental Health Coalition's Amy Simpson summarizes globalization at the crossroads.

Nick Stamon brings his insights on multilateralism in a unilateral U.S.

Anne Hoiberg describes her election monitoring experiences (in October, Belarus).

Rebecca Booth agonizes about the future of the Women's Movement.

Dave Chase shares his grass roots campaigning endeavors that crisscrossed the country.

The Torture Ship Is Not Welcome In San Diego

Join Us In Protesting The Arrival In San Diego Of The "Esmeralda"

At the beginning of the Pinochet regime in Chile (1973-1990), the Chilean dictatorial government used the sailing ship "Esmeralda" as a torture chamber. According to Amnesty International and the Organization of American States, at least 112 political prisoners were interrogated and tortured aboard the ship without charges or trial. Many of the detainees died on board or were "disappeared".

The Chilean government has never officially acknowledged the somber past of the Esmeralda and it is still used as a Navy Training vessel.

The organizers of Sunday’s protest demand that the Chilean government officially apologize to the victims’ families and that those responsible for the crimes committed aboard the Esmeralda be brought to justice.

Support the following organizations to pursue their work so justice can be served and the victims of the Esmeralda torture chamber will never be forgotten.

Survivors of Torture International
Amnesty International
The International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego
Committee for World Democracy
Union Del Barrio
Raza Rights Coalition

Amnesty International and The International Museum of Human Rights, San Diego present two events featuring Esther Chavez Cano, director of Casa Amiga in Ciudad Juarez and an advocate of women’s rights in Mexico. Speaking through an interpreter, Sra. Chavez Cano will discuss the more than 370 young women who have been found murdered and mutilated in and around Ciudad Juarez over the last ten years. The murders are known as the "maquiladora murders" since many of the victims worked in the maquiladora industry.

The situation in Juarez is an egregious example of the violence against women that is pervasive around the world. The failure of the competent authorities to take action to investigate these crimes, whether through indifference, lack of will, negligence or inability, has been blatant over the last ten years.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear a case regarding Guantanamo Bay detainees.  This panel will examine the Guantanamo Bay case and consider its implications on the rule of law.

William Aceves
          Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies Program at California Western School of Law

Michal Belknap
          Professor of Law at California Western School of Law

Michael Ramsey
          Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law

Charles Anthony Smith
          Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science at UCSD

A Free Film Screening
Commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Women had their place. Hers was in the revolution.

Set in the Caribbean island nation of the Dominican Republic, "In the Time of the Butterflies" is based on the true story of Minerva Mirabal and her family's struggle against the ruthless dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.

• James Ajemian
  Professor Emeritus, School of Social Work, SDSU

"Who today still speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?"
Adolf Hitler, August 24, 1939*
*One week later, on September 1, 1939, World War II began
with Hitler's invasion of Poland. The holocaust soon
followed.

• Stuart Seldowitz
  Deputy Director, Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs
  United States Department of State

• Sylvia Hampton, President Quality Health Care Coalition
• Dr. Gary Jones, Philosophy Department University of San Diego
• Dr. Lawrence Schneiderman, M.D. University of California at San Diego

41 million U.S. citizens, including I I million children, are without health insurance. Those that have insurance are finding it increasingly unaffordable. How did we get to this state? What is the situation on the medical delivery line? And what can we at the grassroots do to find remedies?

• Quynh Nguyen
        discussing women in labor organizations
• Reyna Montero
        discussing women in the maquiladoras in Tijuana
• Kelly Jenkins-Putz from the Women's Bureau U.S. Department of Labor
        discussing refugee women in microcredit-funded business and women in U.S. employment

Estimated to cost between $8 billion and $13 billion a month, the Bush Administration's Iraq War will impact economically the most vulnerable Americans and Mexicans: the millions of senior women on fixed incomes, women workers earning less-than-a-livable wage, and single mothers and their children.