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Resources

Tue, 12/23/2008 - 6:18pm

BOOKS

American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination, Kristian Williams, South End, 2006

A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation from the Cold War to the War on Terror, Alfred W. McCoy, Macmillan, 2006.

Detainee 002: The Case of David Hicks, Leigh Sales, Melbourne University Press, 2007

Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bay, Clive Stafford Smith, Nation Books, 2007

Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar, Moazzam Begg, WW Norton, 2007

Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism, David Cole, The New Press, 2002

Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, Murat Kurnaz, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power, Joseph Margulies, Simon and Schuster, 2006

Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo, Oberon Books, 2005

Guantanamo: The War on Human Rights, David Rose, New Press, 2006

Guantanamo: What the World Should Know, Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004

Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness, Erik Saar, Penguin Press, 2005

Monstering: Inside America's Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, Tara McKelvey, Basic Books, 2007

Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak, Marc Falkoff (editor), University of Iowa Press, 2007

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, Jane Mayer, Doubleday, 2006

The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 759 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison, Andy Worthington, Pluto Press 2007

The Torture Debate in America, Karen J. Greenberg, ed., Cambridge, 2005

The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, Karen J. Greenberg, et al, eds., Cambridge, 2005

Torture and Democracy, Darius Rejali, Princeton, 2007

Torture: Religious Ethics and National Security, John Perry, Orbis Books 2005

Torture and Truth: America, Abu Grahib and the War on Terror, Mark Danner, New York Review Books, 2004

Torture and the Twilight of Empire: from Algiers to Baghdad, Marina Lazreg, Princeton, 2007

Truth, Torture and the American Way: the History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture, Jennifer Harbury, Beacon, 2005

Witch Hunts: From Salem to Guantanamo Bay, Robert Rapley, McGill, 2007.

FILMS

“Charged in the Name of Terror” This short film by Susan Youseff features Witness Against Torture member Danny Burns’ footage from the walk to Guantanamo

Taxi to the Dark Side, Academy Award winning documentary directed by Alex Gibney,

The Road to Guantanamo, award winning docu-drama directed by Michael Winterbottom

The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, award winning film by Rory Kennedy

The Torture Question, FRONTLINE

Outlawed: Extraordinary Rendition, Torture and Disappearances in the 'War on Terror'

NOW hosted by David Brancaccio, PBS.  The Prisoner NOWD6230 & Guantanamo Justice NOWD6331

Torturing Democracy, documentary written and produced by Sherry Jones
 

LINKS

Act Against Torture

American Civil Liberties Union, Project to Restore the Constitution

Amnesty International

Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Cageprisoners

Campaign to Ban Torture

Center for Constitutional Rights

Code Pink

Democracy Now, http://www.democracynow.org/

Human Rights First, http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/etn/index.asp

Human Rights Watch, http://www.hrw.org/

International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), http://www.fidh.org/

Jonah House, http://www.jonahhouse.org/

National Religious Campaign Against Torture, http://www.nrcat.org/

NC Stop Torture Now, http://www.ncstoptorturenow.org/

Physicians for Human Rights, http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/torture/

QUIT: Quaker Initiative to End Torture, http://www.quit-torture-now.org/

Reprieve, http://www.reprieve.org.uk/

School of the Americas Watch, http://www.soaw.org/

September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, http://www.peacefultomorrows.org/

Southwest Witness, http://southwestwitness.org/

The Center for Victims of Torture, http://www.cvt.org/

Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International, http://www.tassc.org/

Torture on Trial, http://tortureontrial.org/

United For Peace & Justice, http://www.unitedforpeace.org/

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – Torture is a Moral Issue study guide,

http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/TortureIsAMoralIssueCatholicStudyGuide.pdf

Voices for Creative Nonviolence, http://vcnv.org/

War Resisters League, http://www.warresisters.org/