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In light of the talk recently about the "Zero Dark Thirty" film's
legitimation of torture and propagandizing for the CIA's point of
view, as Glenn Greenwald wrote about well here --<br>
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<a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/14/zero-dark-thirty-cia-propaganda">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/14/zero-dark-thirty-cia-propaganda</a><br>
a.k.a.<br>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/14-9">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/14-9</a><br>
<br>
World Can't Wait is speaking out to oppose this -- perhaps we should
join them, around the time the film opens here? Don't know when
that's slated to be, but perhaps mid or late January.<br>
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<h3>Protests against drones
coming up:</h3>
<p><span style="font-size:
small;">Last Saturday,
World Can't Wait hosted
almost 30 activists from
more than a dozen groups
to work on a strategic
plan to stop the U.S.
drone wars through
political protest. We're
in the process of sharing
plans with others across
the country.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size:
small;">In addition to
January 21 drone protest
in Washington, we are
calling for April 2013
Days of Action:<br>
<br>
<b>April 4-6 </b>Stop the
Manufacture of Drones<br>
<br>
<b>April 16-13 </b>Stop
Drone Research on Campus<br>
<br>
<b>April 27-28</b> Protest
Drone Bases, especially at
Hancock AFB, Syracuse NY<br>
<br>
More info to come: </span><a
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to DC in January</a>? You
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<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Aware,<br>
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Next month, many organizations are coming
together to protest in Washington and
nationwide against indefinite detention
and drone strikes, and for the closure of
Guantanamo. We had not anticipated the
relevance — and outrageous content — of
the new film Zero Dark Thirty entering the
public sphere at the same time. But, it's
here... what are we going to do about it?</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span
style="font-size: x-small;">Above,
protesting at the opening of Zero
Dark Thirty in NYC Wednesday</span></p>
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width="22"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ED25sha0G%2BANjRtgcKHe%2FFP3yaxfGJps"><span
style="font-size: medium;">Listen to me
discuss the film</span></a><span
style="font-size: medium;"> on
Flashpoints, KPFA (at 42:00 into the
show).<br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-size: medium;">The
film, which opened today in NYC and LA,
and opens nationally on Friday January 11,
the anniversary of Guantanamo, could
bamboozle and confuse millions who see it.
On short notice, a few of us were outside
the first showing, talking to people about
what's wrong with the CIA's view of the
world. <br>
<br>
It's critical to challenge such a slick
production, likely to win many awards. On
Friday, January 11, <b>we're calling on
everyone to be at theaters in direct,
creative, substantive ways to expose and
challenge the core message of this film</b>:
torture may be bad, but it "protects"
"us." People have to know this is almost
literally a propaganda film from the CIA.
Here is the message we took today:<br>
<br>
ZERO DARK THIRTY depicts the world through
the CIA's eyes & falsely depicts
torture as necessary to find Osama Bin
Laden.<br>
<br>
What happened on 9/11 was a horror. The
forces that attacked the World Trade
Center are totally reactionary. BUT what
has been done by the U.S. in the name of
9/11 has been far worse:</span><br>
<br>
<span style="font-size: medium;">• <b>More
than a million people have been killed</b>
and millions more turned into refugees
in the American war against Iraq (a
country which was not even connected to
9/11). Tens of thousands have been killed
in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia,
and other countries.<br>
<br>
• <b> Drones used to kill</b> suspected
militants and thousands of innocents,
including children, with the U.S. military
now justifying targeting even children as
young as 6 years old as "enemies" fit to
be killed.<br>
<br>
• A <b>worldwide network of CIA torture
sites</b> run by the U.S., including
Guantanamo was built, and a system of
indefinite detention without trial put in
place through law and executive orders by
Bush and Obama.<br>
<br>
• <b>Stripping of fundamental rights
within the U.S.</b>, giving the state
unlimited power to spy on people¹s
personal communications and lives, to hold
people without trial based merely on an
accusation or suspicion that they might do
something bad, and kill people without
trial in targeted assassinations directed
by the President meeting in secret
session.<br>
<br>
We as a people are further brutalized and
degraded by the celebration and
justification of torture as in this
film. Torture produced no useful
intelligence in the pursuit of Bin Laden.
Even the government has admitted this. Yet
this film claims the opposite. <br>
<br>
There were people in the wake of 9/11
including some who had lost loved ones at
the WTC who declared "NOT IN OUR NAME."
That captures our sentiment now. We do not
share the CIA¹s view of the world. <b>End
these wars now, and stop torture. </b><br>
<br>
Further reading:</span><br>
<b><br>
</b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZJ7UzqYN3nrXmZV1IM2l2VP3yaxfGJps"><b><span
style="font-size: medium;">Zero Dark
Thirty: the Veneration of Torture and
the C.I.A.</span></b></a><span
style="font-size: medium;"><br>
by Glenn Greenwald<span style="color:
rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><br>
<br>
</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xvJSF7rgeu9cztDmCKxF4FP3yaxfGJps"><b><span
style="font-size: medium;">Zero
Conscience in “Zero Dark Thirty”</span></b></a><span
style="font-size: medium;"><br>
by Jane Mayer</span></p>
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<h3>January Protests in DC:</h3>
<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">January
11: </span></b><span class="name"><a
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href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=q2dbVy7mXCJ6iXVidx%2F7%2F1P3yaxfGJps"><b><span
style="font-size: medium;">Shut Down
Guantanamo</span></b></a></span><span
style="font-size: medium;"><br>
Protest at 12noon at the US Supreme Court<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br>
<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">NEW!</span>
January 12: </span></b><a
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style="font-size: medium;">Stop CIA
Killer Drones & Torture!</span></b></a><span
style="font-size: medium;"><br>
Protest at CIA HQ at 10am<br>
The CIA has been found guilty by the
European Court of torture, abuse, &
secretly imprisoning. US Military &
CIA drones have maimed & killed
thousands of people in Yemen, Somalia,
Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, & Afghanistan.
This year alone there have been over 333 +
strikes in Afghanistan. Almost 60
Guantanamo prisoners have been cleared for
release but still remain captives of the
US indefinitely. Stand with us opposing
CIA & US Military drones used in
extrajudicial killings and US/CIA secret
rendition, indefinite detention, all
torture, to oppose & close the
Guantanamo prison camp. Torture & US
killer drone strikes are illegal, immoral,
and must stop now!<br>
<br>
</span><b><span style="font-size: medium;">January
21 </span></b><span class="name"><a
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href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dER0h5qnLL12UfExBsK8LYDAuZXDloJi"><b><span
style="font-size: medium;">Stop the
Wars - Stop the Drones!</span></b></a></span><span
style="font-size: medium;"><br>
Protest at the Inauguration Parade </span></p>
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World Can't Wait</span></p>
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