{"id":315,"date":"2011-08-14T21:33:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T05:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=315"},"modified":"2011-08-26T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T22:48:59","slug":"aug-27-aiusa-montage-of-apology-to-maher-arar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Aug. 27 – AIUSA Montage of Apology to Maher Arar"},"content":{"rendered":"
UPDATED Aug. 26, 2011 with additional details<\/strong><\/div>\n
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WHEN:\u00a0\u00a0 August 27th: Noon,<\/p>\n

WHERE:Seattle Center north section – nearby the big fountain;<\/p>\n

SPONSOR:
\nAmnesty International USA, Puget Sound Cluster (Student and Local Groups;volunteers,volunteer leaders – including UW, and Group4 of\u00a0 Seattle);<\/p>\n

WHAT TO DO: Participate in the emerging Montage of Apology – for Mr.Maher Arar – Canadian Engineer, who survived disappearance and torture in Syria; he was “rendered” (by the US in 2002) at JFK airport and sent to Syria until his release.\u00a0 Canada has formally apologized to Mr. Arar and his family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Apology to Maher Arar<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The USA needs to make formal apology and restitution, under the terms of the Convention On Torture, ratified by the USA in 1996. We can help with our on-going grassroots apology… .<\/p>\n

WHO IS INVITED: Jim Page, UW Human Rights Center Faculty, media, YOU; several poets to share work of their own, or – OF name poets of witness (Neruda; Brutus; Espada; Forche, more -‘)<\/p>\n

SEATTLE CONTACT: Larry Ebersole<\/p>\n

Amnesty International USA, Area Coordinator in WA<\/a><\/p>\n

206.527-9683<\/p>\n

wordheath@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Further information at: http:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/our-work\/cases\/usa-maher-arar<\/a><\/div>\n
Facebook event: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=247434561954713<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED Aug. 26, 2011 with additional details WHEN:\u00a0\u00a0 August 27th: Noon, WHERE:Seattle Center north section – nearby the big fountain; SPONSOR: Amnesty International USA, Puget Sound Cluster (Student and Local Groups;volunteers,volunteer leaders – including UW, and Group4 of\u00a0 Seattle); WHAT … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[56,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnestyseattle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}