9TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS POTLUCK DINNER

9TH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS POTLUCK DINNER
Commemorate the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Saturday, December 16, 2006
  6:30-9:30 p.m.
  Dinner and Program
  (Please bring a main dish to share)

  Florence Bain Senior Center
  5470 Ruth Keaton Way, Columbia, MD 21044
  (Driving directions are at the bottom of this message)

   
   

  SPEAKERS:

  Nadine Bloch has been prominent in nonviolent direct action campaigns, both locally and internationally for over 25 years. She works with the Ruckus Society, Bread and Puppet Theater, Green Peace, WAG (Washington Action Group) and the Mobilization for Global Justice, among others.

  Jennifer Harbury is an attorney, author and activist. She has spent the last 20 years working for human rights reforms both in Guatemala and the US.  Her husband, Mayan resistance leader Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, was captured, tortured, and eventually executed without trial. Ms. Harbury’s efforts to save his life, including three dangerous hunger strikes, resulted in startling official disclosures in 1995 about the CIA’s use of known torturers as paid informants. She has written two books about her experiences, “Searching for Everardo,” (Warner Books 1997) and “Bridge of Courage” (Common Courage Press, 1993). She has continued to investigate and document CIA involvement in torture in Latin America as well as the Middle East. Her newest book, “Truth, Torture and the American Way” (Beacon, 2005) analyzes the historic, legal and policy questions raised by current US torture practices.  She is a member of the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition, “TASSC”, in Washington DC.
   

• Annual Human Rights Awards given to local human rights activists
• Raffle of various items from Latin America

  SPONSORS:    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHAPTER 228; HOWARD COUNTY FRIENDS OF LATIN AMERICA; HOWARD COUNTY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 
   
  Driving Directions:
   
  Florence Bain Senior Center is in the Harper’s Choice Village Center. 
   
  1. From Rte. 29, take the Rte. 175 west, exit toward Columbia. Rte. 175 becomes Little Patuxent Pkwy. 
  2. After about 3.3 miles, turn right onto Harpers Farm Rd (intersection at Howard Community College). 
  3.  After 0.6 miles turn right on Beaverkill Rd (there is a red light).  Ruth Keaton Way is less than one-half mile on the left.  Parking is directly in front of the center.
   
    For more information, call Leslie at 410-381-4899, Bob at 410-465-0987, or e-mail cuba_is_hope@comcast.com or xuzw63a@aol.co