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You are cordially invited to the War Resisters League’s 42nd Annual Peace Award Ceremony and Reception, “Taking on the Torturers”

A gala event celebrating the crucial work of two groups that have gone toe-to-toe with those who believe in fighting terror with terror

TAKING ON THE TORTURERS

Celebrating
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and
The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC)
For their leading roles in defense of human rights
With Sister Dianna Ortiz and Michael Ratner
Other Special Guests Including The Welfare Poets, Emma’s Revolution and Poet Father Daniel Berrigan, SJ.
https://secure.serve.com/resist/2007award.htm
Hosted by
Deepa Fernandes, WakeUp Call, WBAI
Friday Evening • September 28, 2007
New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West
New York, NY

ABOUT THE EVENING
WRL wishes to honor the work of CCR and TASSC by both hearing about their vital campaigns and activities and sharing food and conversation, as we further weave our movements and celebrate our victories. Cocktail party at 6:00 p.m., with sumptuous hors d’oeuvres and wine. Panel discussion and award ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Following the program, we’ll have more time to meet and mingle over dessert and champagne at 9:30 p.m.

The evening will be catered by Pacifeast Catering–WRL New England staffer (and former War Resisters’ International Chair) Joanne Sheehan and her partner Rick Gaumer.

ABOUT THE AWARDEES
The Center for Constitutional Rights The country’s premiere progressive legal institution, CCR was founded in 1966 to use litigation proactively to change the law for the better and to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources.

The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International The mission of TASSC is to end the practice of torture wherever it occurs and to empower survivors and their families and communities wherever they are. It is the only organization founded by and for torture survivors.

ABOUT WRL Peace Award Intended to honor an organization or person whose work represents the league’s radical nonviolent platform of action, the award was first
given in 1958 to Jeannette Rankin, the only congressperson to vote against U.S. entry into both world wars. Subsequent awardees have included civil rights activists Bayard Rustin and Bob Moses, political folksinger Odetta, poet-priest Daniel Berrigan, military resisters from both Gulf wars, and Fernando Suarez del Solar of Military Families Speak Out, along with groups like Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques. Speakers at Peace Award events have included Nobel laureates Martin Luther King Jr. and Pearl S. Buck, poet Allen Ginsberg, and labor organizer A. Philip Randolph.

HOW TO ATTEND Make your reservations for the evening online at
https://secure.serve.com/resist/2007award.htm or use the form below and mail it to:

WRL Peace Award Reservations, 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012

Make your reservations today. (Reservations must be received by
Friday, September 21, 2007.)

Tickets will be waiting for you at the door under your name.

Some ticket sales will be possible at the event though there is limited space.

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