Participate in Torture Awareness Month:

• Torture Is a Moral Issue: Panel & Conference
  Fri.-Sat., June 26-27 in Palo Alto, CA
  See: http://www.councilofchurches-scc.org for more information and to register.
  
  Sponsored by the Council of Churches of Santa Clara County, NRCAT, No2Torture, Bay Area Religious Campaign Against Torture, Network for Spiritual Progressives, California Council of Churches, Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco & MicahsCall.org, with numerous co-sponsors.

• NRCAT (National Religious Campaign Against Torture) Activities
  See: Listing on the NRCAT website
  

• TASSC Survivors Week
  See: Schedule of Activities on the TASSC website
  

• Rabbis for Human Rights - North America
  See: Steps you can take in your community this June(RHR-NA website)
  

For Immediate Action

Some ways for individuals, congregations and communities to act on this issue:

• Support the Executive Order Project
  Join hundreds of religious leaders, national-security and military experts, politicians from across party lines and thousands of faithful people in calling for the next President to do what is necessary to end torture, prevent it in the future and restore justice.

• To start working on the issue...
  This is not an easy conversation to start. The issue of torture is intrinsically difficult, yet it is a foundational moral issue. To help you find the best way for your congregation or community to approach the topic, No2Torture makes some resources available – free, thanks to volunteer efforts and generous contributions:
  • No2Torture posters can be ordered online. They come with a legal-size sheet of main points and a three-page mini-curriculum. You may also download the "main points" (pdf or Word) and mini-curriculum (pdf or Word).
  • Our biblically based “Out of Horror, Hope” curriculum (download or CD only)
  • Hector Aristizabal's performance of Nightwind (DVD)
  • Talks from the LA Conference (video or audio on DVD)
  Other resources are available through the Presbyerian Peacemaking Program and NRCAT.
  

• Put a banner on your steeple
  Churches have prime “real estate” to make this simple message prominent in the community. The Banners Across America project is generating thought and conversation.

• Embark on a fast from TV violence
  Since 9/11, images of torture have become common on TV; see, for example, Jane Mayer's article, Whatever It Takes. Congregations can hold conversations about violence, especially torture, as entertainment – then turn it off! For more ideas, see Media Violence Fast.

• Support our servicemen and women, and their families.
  

• Try some of our other suggestions...
  for individuals (pdf or Word) and for local grass-roots action (pdf or Word).

No2Torture is a faith-based, grassroots movement, launched from within the Presbyterian Church (USA), but open to all who wish to end torture. Motivated by love of God and country, we are deeply saddened and morally outraged at the treatment of detainees by the United States and our allies. We are concerned for our troops, our nation and our world. Thus, we eagerly embrace the initiatives outlined in A Call to Say No! to Torture to pray, study, dialogue, speak out and come together. We urge others to join our cause. our work is possible because of key partnerships, including:

• The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT)
  

• The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
  

• The Presbyterian Peacemaking Program
  

No2Torture's Yahoo group is one place to discuss and share information on the torture issue.
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