A time comes when silence is betrayal . . . We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak. For we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness so close around us.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture
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WRRCAT Holds First Interfaith Conference on Torture in Region
On June 17, 2006, WRRCAT sponsored a conference entitled "U.S. and Torture: A Religious Call to Action." Over 250 persons attended, representing 35 different religious congregations in the Washington region. The conference was the kick-off event in the campaign to organize religious congregations in the region to stop torture. Participants who attended the conference have pledged to put the torture issue on the agenda of their respective congregations and mobilize opposition to U.S.-sponsored torture.
CONFERENCE MATERIALS
- Conference Summary
- Agenda
- Speaker Bios
- Talk by Ray McGovern
- Talk by Rev. Beth Pyles
- Opening Words by Linda Gustitus
- Q & A About Torture (In registration packets)
- Short History of the Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture (In registration packets)
Conference Participants Listen to Speaker
Linda Gustitus, Conference Chair, Introduces Senator Carl Levin
Rev. Doc. Nancy C. James Gives Invocation
Senator Carl Levin, showing "redacted" document he received from the Administration, in his search for information about U.S.-sponsored torture. All text has been deleted from the document.
Unitarian Universalist Chalice, with Torture is Un-American sign in background.
Audience listens intently to speaker