February 14, 2012
Boston University
Bringing Torture Home: American Soliders and the Legacy and Legality of Torture
Joshua E.S. Phillips, reporter and author of None of Us Were Like This Before will speak about what many soldiers cannot: the devastating legacy of torture on the United States' veterans who witnessed or participated in it, with commentary from George Annas, J.D, M.P.H. He will be giving two talks on February 14 at Boston University:
12pm-1pm
Room L-112, Boston University School of Medicine
72 East Concord Street, Boston
4pm-5pm
Barrister Hall, Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Boston University
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None of Us Were Like This Before
The legacy of torture in the “War on Terror,” told through the story of one tank battalion.
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Talks on Torture by Joshua E.S. Phillips
Tune into the Firedoglake Book Salon on Saturday, February 18 at 2pm PST (5pm EST) to join author Joshua E.S. Phillips in an online discussion of his book None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture. In real time, participants, led by TruthOut's Jason Leopold, will weigh in on Phillips' incisive account of how ordinary soldiers in a US tank battalion, ill trained for the responsibilities foisted upon them, descended into the degradation of abuse.
Joshua E.S. Phillips on uncovering the failures of the Detainee Abuse Task Force
Though the horrific images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib have been burned into the American cultural consciousness, what modes of redress are actually available to victims of US military torture? In an interview with Erika Eichelberger of the Nation Institute, Joshua E.S. Phillips discusses the grim shortcomings of the Detainee Abuse Task Force that he uncovered while researching his incisive investigation of American soldiers and torture, None of Us Were Like This Before. The DATF, Phillips explains, too often fails to properly investigate and resolve reports of torture: