Dear All,
Thank you for all your notes and for holding the QUIT conference in the Light. The conference was excellent! All 4 presenters outdid themselves in presenting current information from their fields.
Terry Kupers, author of Prison Madness, gave us clear information about how the use of torture in American prisons results in deformed people unable to live as whole humans.
Fr Roy Bourgeois explained the history of the School of the Americas and the torture training for more than 60,000 Latin American military and police that continues.
Scott Horton, lawyer and Harper’s magazine writer of the No
Comment column, explained the legal context in which Obama not only continues Bush policies but in some instances makes things worse regarding torture.
And Hector Aristizabal, Columbian therapist and torture survivor,
showed us how movement and play can help us integrate all the information and subsequent emotions after learning so much about torture.
California has good and active groups working against torture and we heard of several actions taken in recent years- everything from clown protests to legislation. Friends from Durham, North Carolina and Bosie, Idaho and Eugene, Oregon along with mostly Californians attended, plus several non-Quakers joined us. Meeting for worship in the Redwood forest was as amazing as one might imagine
Thanks again for your good care and support,
John