When: Wednesday - May 20th - 5 PM

Where: 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, PA 19130 - (outside of the Philadelphia Inquirer's building)

Yesterday Will Bunch, a senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News, and author of the blog Attytood published this article "The latest poor information on John Yoo" dissecting the defense given by Harold Jackson, the Inquirer editorial page editor, in the column "Uproar over Inquirer's Yoo ignores opinion page purpose".

Harold Jackson defends the paper’s decision to hire Yoo in the following:

The decision to publish Yoo monthly came at the suggestion of The Inquirer's publisher, Brian Tierney, who cited Yoo's mutual roots in Philadelphia as well as his legal scholarship. He's a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

I had misgivings, but believed our readers would place the move in context with the paper's clearly expressed criticism in numerous editorials of the Bush administration's use of torture.

I was wrong. From the beginning, we received letters and e-mails criticizing the hiring of Yoo. The criticism increased after his torture memos became public.

At our urging, Yoo wrote a column explaining his reasoning in writing the memos. That piece allowed our readers to hear him out, and respond with their own thoughts about torture. It was exactly what you want to see newspaper opinion pages do - provide the catalyst for intelligent discourse.

Bunch clearly points out this is not a freedom of speech issue...this is about the moral fiber of a community: about giving a platform to someone who is justifying unlawful and immoral actions.

If you agree that torture enablers have no place on the editorial pages, please join us in telling the Philadelphia Inquirer in no uncertain terms, "Keep John Yoo off the pages of the Inquirer. Terminate his contract immediately."

Thousands of you have taken action by writing to the Inquirer to say that torture apologists like Yoo have no place on the payroll of a daily newspaper.

So far the Inquirer has not replied to our letters, so we're taking the action to their doorstep.

Join us on Wednesday. Bring your signs, your friends and your voices!

Wear your orange jumpsuits and black hoods...And if anyone wants to participate in some street theater contact Bob Smith for waterboarding detail.

Be creative with signs “Allowing Yoo (you) to torture supports Tierney(tyranny)” ...you get the idea.

On Wednesday, May 20 at 5:00 we'll be gathering outside of the Philadelphia Inquirer's building at 400 North Broad Street in Philadelphia.

Organized by : PennAction, Veterans for Peace, National Lawyers Guild, Keystone Progress, AFSC, Brandywine Peace Community,Progressive Democrats of America-NJ