NPC Newsmaker Program - Guantanamo Accountability: Former Army JAG Prosecutor, Human Rights, Law Experts | Press Release

Former Army JAG Prosecutor Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld, who resigned his Guantanamo post in protest, and other law and human rights experts will outline ways to hold former administration officials accountable for what they call a policy sanctioning torture at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 16, in the Murrow Room, 13th floor, National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C.

Participants include Vandeveld; Scott Horton, professor of humanitarian law and international business at Columbia Law School; Elisa Massimino, CEO of Human Rights First; and Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause.

Institute for Policy Studies Invites you to the

33rd Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards

Thursday, October 15, 2009

National Press Club Ballroom, 13th Floor
529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

5:30 PM: Reception and Light Fare
7:00 PM: Human Rights Program

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RSVP & Reservations
Early Bird tickets: $40 through September 30th

Foreign Policy Briefing: Congressional Staff and Public

Speakers:

Mr. McGovern was an Army Infantry/Intelligence officer in the 1960s and then spent 27 years as an analyst in the Central Intelligence Agency, during which he chaired National Intelligence Estimates and briefed the President's Daily Brief under Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. He is co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

Senate Foreign Relations Hearing Thursday, 10/1 "Afghanistan's Impact on Pakistan"

What: Afghanistan's Impact on Pakistan - Senate Foreign Relations Committee - Hearing

When: 10:00 am, 10/01/2009

Where: 419 Dirksen Senate Office Building

Who: Witness(es):

• Former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Maleeha Lodhi
• Milt Bearden, former Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Islamabad, Reston, Va.
• Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation

Obamanologues (pronounced Obama-nalogues), written and directed by R.M. Peete, is a theatrical play developed in early 2009. The play's title is the intersection of the two words: Obama and monologues. The writer (who is also an actor) developed the play's concept after completing an initial monologue (entitled, "First Day"). After attending the 2009 Presidential Inauguration, he was inspired to create the monologue, which he planned to use at future acting auditions.

Please RSVP by Saturday, 9/19 - cbrown@lifelinefund.org

International Lifeline Fund

The International Lifeline Fund is a non-profit humanitarian relief organization based in Washington, D.C. In the three short years since it became operational in 2006, this cutting edge organization that has found ways to dramatically reduce human misery and environmental destruction at remarkably low cost. In an effort to get the most bang out of every buck, Lifeline has been promoting cost-effective technologies and self-sustaining programs, which give vulnerable individuals the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty and become productive members of their societies.

The American Society of International Law, the Constitution Project, and the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law invite you to attend a special event on Constitution Day, September 17, 2009, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm.

Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001

RSVP

Presentation of the Constitution Project's 2009 Constitutional Commentary Award

Honoring Michael Kirk for his production of Frontline's "Bush's War;" the award will be presented by 2007 honoree and Pulitzer Prize-winner Charlie Savage of the New York Times

Panel Discussion: "Defining Human Rights: What Role does International Law Play in our Constitutional System?" Featuring:

• John Bellinger, Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP; Legal Adviser to the Department of State, 2005-2009
  

Should Terrorists be Prosecuted by Military Commissions?

~A Panel Discussion with ~

• Matt Olsen, Executive Director of the Guantanamo Review Detainee Taskforce
• Major Jon Scott Jackson, Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions
• Richard E.N. Federico, Lieutenant Commander, JAG Corps, U.S. Navy
• Denny LeBoeuf, Director, John Adams Project, ACLU

~ Moderated by ~

Stephen Vladeck, Professor, American University College of Law

Thursday, September 10th 3:30 p.m.

Hart Auditorium, 600 New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington DC 20208

Reception to Follow

~ Sponsored by ~

Amnesty International & The Center on National Security and the Law

Questions and comments to

rw243@law.georgetown.edu (Amnesty International) or nationalsecurity@law.georgetown.edu (CNSL)

A Special Walter Reed Vigil this Friday, Sept. 11, 2009

Sisters and brothers,

The Walter Reed Vigil is now more than four and a half years old. We have been there every Friday evening despite rain or shine, ice, sleet, and harassing pro-war elements.

Our message is more important than ever. The wounded continue to pour into the hospital. The government wants to balance its budget on the backs of veterans, and troops are being shuffled back and forth between Iraq and Afghanistan, and we soon may be inside Pakistan.

But the Vigil is under attack from the commander of Walter Reed and this Friday may see the haters of peace out in large numbers. (Interesting that the haters of peace are also the haters of health care for all.)