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Stop Torture Project:
Take Action!

Action Steps and Resources

Photo: Jeff MacDonald, Creative Commons license

• Actions to Consider
  
• Opportunities to Sign Petitions
  
• Organizations Working to Stop Torture
  
• Readings

Actions to Consider

1. Within the next week, speak with at least one person about torture.
2. Host our "End US-Sponsored Torture" workshop.
3. Join our Stop Torture committee. (Contact Eisha Mason.)
4. Volunteer with the Program for Torture Victims in Los Angeles.
5. Sign petitions to end torture (below).

Opportunities to Sign Petitions

Sign the following petitions:

1. Tell State Legislators: California Health Professionals Must Not Engage in Torture (AFSC Stop Torture Project and other organizations)
2. No More Abu Ghraibs: Ask Congress to Fully Investigate CIA and DoD Interrogation Methods (Physicians for Human Rights)
3. Demand the Restoration of Habeus Corpus (Center for Constitutional Rights) .

ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO STOP TORTURE

• Act Against Torture, www.actagainsttorture.org
• American Civil Liberties Union, www.aclu.org 
• American Friends Service Committee (Los Angeles), losangeles.afsc.org
• Amnesty International, www.amnestyusa.org/torture
• Center for Constitutional Rights, www.ccr-ny.org
• Friends Committee on National Legislation, www.fcnl.org 
• Human Rights Watch, www.hrw.org
• Human Rights First, www.humanrightsfirst.org
• National Religious Campaign Against Torture, www.nrcat.org
• Physicians for Human Rights, www.physiciansforhumanrights.org
• Physicians for Social Responsibility, www.psr.org 
• Program for Torture Victims, www.ptvla.org
• Psychologists Acting with Conscience Together, ww.psyact.org
• QUIT Quaker Initiative to End Torture, www.quit-torture-now.org
• School of the Americas Watch, www.soaw.org
• Stop Torture Now, www.stoptorturenow.org
• Torture Awareness, www.tortureawareness.com

(Find more organizations among the supporters of the California Campaign to Stop Medical Torture.)

Readings

• United Nations General Assembly. 1982. Principles of medical ethics relevant to the protection of prisoners against torture. December 18, 1982, www.cioms ch/1983 texts of guidelines.htm
• United Nations General Assembly. 1984. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. December 10, 1984, http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/h cat39.htm
• Medical Ethics and the Interrogation of Guantanamo. 063 by Steven Miles 2007. The American Journal of Bioethics 7(4):5, www.ajobonline.com
• Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror. By Steven Miles. Random House Publishing/ New York, 2006
•  The Pentagon's IG Report Contradicts What the APA Has Said About the Involvement of Psychologists in Abusive Interrogations:A Q&A on Psychologists and Torture. By Stephen Soldz, Steve Reisner, Brad Olson in CounterPunch;  June 6, 2007, www.counterpunch.org
• Psychological Warfare. By Mark Benjamin
• Question of Torture: CIA Interrogations from the Cold War to the War on Terror. By Alfred McCoy. Metropolitan Books/ New York 2006.
• "Rorschach and Awe" by Katherine Eban, www.vanityfair.com

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