[Peace-discuss] Taxi to the Dark Side at Boardman's Art / Friday March 14 2008

[Karen Medina]

"Taxi to the Dark Side" coming the Boardman's Art Theater this Friday! (Thanks Jan for checking on it) Perfect timing for the condemneration of the "War on Terror". 

"Taxi to the Dark Side" is a documentary about the controversial death of an Afghan taxi driver in US custody. The taxi driver was  was accused of being involved in a rocket attack against an American base. In fact, later on, it was learned that the very Afghan militia people who arrested the taxi driver were responsible for that attack and that the taxi driver had nothing to with it.

The American soldiers "beat him to death" by hitting his legs repeatedly over 5 days -- a knee to the thigh repeatedly until his legs were literally pulverized. 

>> It starts this Friday, March 14.
>> show it from DVD instead of 35mm film though, because of a sparsity of prints.
>>> http://www.taxitothedarkside.com/
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>>> "Taxi to the Dark Side" is an Academy Award winning 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner.[1]
>>> The film focuses around the controversial death in custody of an Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar.[2] Dilawar was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention at the Bagram Air Base.
>>> Taxi to the Dark Side also goes on to examine America's policy on torture and interrogation in general, specifically the CIA's use of torture and their research into sensory deprivation. There is description of the opposition to the use of torture from its political and military opponents, as well as the defence of such methods; the attempts by Congress to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention forbidding torture; and the popularisation of the use of torture techniques in shows such as 24.
>>> The film is said to be the first film to contain images taken within Bagram Air Base.
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