Public Forum: Torture’s Impact on Families and Communities
Join us for a discussion featuring these mothers of torture survivors: Jeanette Plummer, Amanda Shackelford, Carol Johnson and Bertha Escamilla.
Professor Adam Green, from the University of Chicago and author of Selling the Race: Culture and Community in Black Chicago, will provide an overview of the history of police torture in Chicago, followed by a panel discussion with mothers of torture survivors on the impact that torture has had on their families and their communities. A question and answer session will follow their presentations.
The Illinois Coalition Against Torture (ICAT) is an association of individuals and community-based organizations whose goal is to end U.S. torture by state actors at all levels of government at home and abroad. We want to eliminate the culture of impunity regarding torture through influencing public opinion and advocating for political change.
Saturday, September 29
1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum UIC
800 S. Halsted St., Chicago
Parking is available across the street. Public transportation: UIC Halsted stop on the Blue Line or the Halsted Bus (#8).
Sponsored by: Illinois Coalition Against Torture, 8th Day Center for Justice, Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, Clerics of St. Viator, Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, Heartland Alliance Marjorie Kovler Center, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
