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The QUIT Consultation November 11 & 12 2011 in Durham NC has been postponed due to lack of response. Future activities will be posted.
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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. We 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.
For a preview of this talk, go to Preview Calvi Plenary
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.
From Quaker House & The Quaker Initiative to End Torture
A Study Booklet: by Chuck Fager
Patience & Determination:
ToolEnding
Torture & Seeking Accountability
Read Terry Kupers keynote speech given at the QUIT 4th Conference, at Quaker Center in September 2010.
An important information source for QUIT this past year has been the gift of the TorturesNotUs website, created by Jeanne Herrick-Stare.
Jeanne has laid down the website to give time to her work as Policy Counsel for the Center for Victims of Torture. We are delighted she is sharing this compilation and analyses of materials with QUIT. They are reproduced here with her permission.
Visit the QUIT BLOG, where members of the QUIT Steering Committee share what they've learned and what they're thinking.
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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