13 yr anniversary of Guantanamo and our 2nd annual video contest

[annm4peace]

for the last 10 years our little peace group has been protesting US torture and Guantanamo and have been protesting
St Thomas Univ. Law Professor Robert Delahunty who was Bush legal council and co-wrote the pre-torture memo.


Anyhow,, after trying for so many years to get others educated and involved in speaking out, the group
decided to have a video contest for the social media savvy world (aka young people) .

We having a our 2nd annual video contest. Anyone with some computer skills and some time can make a very short video that could win $ 500.00 dollars.

Last year we had a young kid from Indonesia send in a video.
But a guy from Australia won with twin toddlers debating US use of torture.

You can see the videos here to get an idea: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqhCP_wOpPVF0umlss49MkQ

So you have until MARCH 1ST to submit your video

Prizes
$500 Jury Prizes
in Serious and Satirical Categories

$300 Audience Favorite Prizes
in the same two categories (see Rules)

http://tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com/

Tackling Torture at the Top (T3), a committee of Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) announces a video contest on the subject of torture and torture accountability. (See Contest Rules for rules, deadlines and prizes.)

Despite US and international law prohibiting the use of torture the US has used torture, often euphemistically called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” in its so-called “War on Terror”. Despite the law, despite documented proof that such efforts produce inadmissable evidence, false information and false confessions, and despite the blowback of such efforts, the US continues to shield the lawbreakers--both those who committed and those who authorized torture--by “Looking forward, not backward,” and there is evidence that such techniques continue to be used and falsely justified.

** Tackling Torture at the Top, through this contest, hopes to produce entertaining and informative videos that contradict this harmful and inhumane view, educate the public, raise questions about the direction of our foreign policy and our use of the military, and by so doing, give the public the awareness and courage to rein in our country’s out of control security apparatus.

[Mnemosyne]

1. K&R for more visibility. nt

[Luminous Animal]

2. I hope you get more than a few recs and I hope your org gets more

than a few who are willing to help out.

But, I suspect not. Because most DUers are unwilling to face the fact that we still torture.

Kudos to your for keeping up the good fight.

[annm4peace]

3. if there is anyone out there who thinks US didn't torture

1. You need to watch the videos

2. You might just be an idiot (Kindly).

But mostly I hope you watch the video and make one of your own.. there are great examples of what you can do.

It was surprising what video's one out and which one got more votes than other ones.

even in our small group we didn't have consensus on favorites.