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This is the Quaker Initiative to End Torture Website.
QUIT is the spiritual work of Quakers to end torture.
This website offers information and resources for learning and taking action. Our hope is that Friends and others will come together in this work as the next great abolition movement in the United States.ÊWe want to stop torture as policy and practice forever.
As this field of work is ever changing, we hope you will check this website often for information updates as well as our blog for news stories. Please learn and choose ways to help. This is an historic time for America on this topic and large change is possible. But it may well take more than one generation of Quakers to carry this work.
Ending torture is a good spiritual work to give yourself to. We welcome your donations and all efforts you can make locally.
Order Audio Talks by John Calvi
To Go Where There Is No Light
Plenary presentation at Friends General Conference Gathering 2011.
Quaker Books. $5.00. After your order is processed, you will get an email with a download link.
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Ending Torture and Starting Healing
Interview on Northern Spirit Radio Spirit In Action section, an hour of interviews with those providing leadership in peace, justice and "good works," interspersed with relevant music. You have the option of listening to the interview, or purchasing the interview ($10 through PayPal or \with credit card and downloading the MP3 file.
RECOMMENDED READING
Links to Amazon .com
Marjorie Cohn, editor
14 essays, 2011 New York University Press
Torture is a Moral Issue
Also available on Kindle
George Hunsinger, editor
24 essays, 2008 Eerdmans Publishing
Torture and Democracy
Also available on Kindle
Darius M. Rejali
2007 Princeton University Press
The Dark Side
Also available on Kindle
Jane Meyer
2009 Random House
The Guantanamo Files
Andy Worthington
2007 Pluto Press
Some Members of the Community Against Torture
American Friends Service Committee
Friends Committee on National Legislation about Torture Memos
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Stop Torture Campaign
Amnesty International - Denounce Torture Campaign
The Center for Constitutional Rights current information on Guantanamo
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
Center for the American Progress Action Fund
Coalition for an Ethical Psychology
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