{"id":1111,"date":"2005-10-15T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T11:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2005-10-15T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T11:15:32","slug":"bushcommissionorg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"bushcommission.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>via<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwarleague.com\/\">Antiwar League<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States will convene at:<\/p>\n<p>4:00 PM Friday October 21 and 12 Noon Saturday October 22 in the Grand Ballroom of the Manhattan Center, 311 W. 34th Street, New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission will take testimony and judge evidence on indictments concerning aggressive war, detention and torture as well as reviewing evidence as to whether crimes were committed before during and after Hurricane Katrina.  The detention and torture section will be on Friday, Katrina on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>NJ Civil Rights Defense Committee has been involved in preparing the indictment and organizing the evidence. Barbara Olshansky, Center for Constitutional Rights and coordinator of Guantanamo detainee defense will act as  a prosecutor. Other participants(list in formation) include: <\/p>\n<p>James Abourezk, former United States Senator<\/p>\n<p>Amy Bartholomew, professor of law at Carleton University<\/p>\n<p>Steven Bronner, professor of political science, Rutgers University<\/p>\n<p>Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power &#038; Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Halliday, ex-UN Assistant Secretary-General, former head of UN Humanitarian Mission In Iraq <\/p>\n<p>Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst<\/p>\n<p>Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Raskin, co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies and member of The Nation&#8217;s editorial board <\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Scahill, correspondent for Democracy Now!<\/p>\n<p>Howard Zinn, author of A People&#8217;s History of the United States <\/p>\n<p>plus eye witness testimony from survivors of Hurricane Katrina and former government detainees <\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushcommission.org\">http:\/\/www.bushcommission.org\/<\/a> for more information. Posters available in a day or two. Eric Lerner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Antiwar League The Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States will convene at: 4:00 PM Friday October 21 and 12 Noon Saturday October 22 in the Grand Ballroom of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1111\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-hV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}