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A somber display about torture

By Anna Pratt | 09.04.08 | 9:08 am


Members of a committee of Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) brought a striking yet silent protest to the plaza outside St. Paul’s Ecolab on Wednesday.
Group members stood vigilantly on the steps, wearing bright orange bodysuits with black…

Torture expert banned from speaking at Catholic church — because he’s pro-choice

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.02.08 | 4:56 pm

stevenmilesOn Sunday, May 4, Dr. Steven Miles was scheduled to speak at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, the progressive South Minneapolis congregation that has played host to hot-button speakers like Gloria Steinem, former Dominican priest Matthew…

Torture News Update

By Leigh Pomeroy | 04.26.07 | 4:31 pm

TortureU of M makes torture documents available

A year ago Dr. Steven Miles of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Bioethics published a…

4 MN Republicans and 1 Democrat support Bush bill on detainee treatment

By Paul Schmelzer | 09.27.06 | 10:02 pm

The US is one step closer to OKing a new bill advocated by President Bush that limits the rights of detainees and, according to Democrats, may result in continued torture of terror suspects.  Today’s 253-168 vote in the House of…

Former members of military, State Department, CIA & FBI urge Senate to reject torture

By Leigh Pomeroy | 09.27.06 | 10:20 am

Mankato resident Tom Maertens, former National Security Council director for proliferation and homeland defense in the George W. Bush White House, and 16 other former members of the U.S. military, State Department, Defense Department, CIA and FBI have

You’re wrong, Mr. President, the US does torture

By Leigh Pomeroy | 09.07.06 | 3:13 pm

Yesterday the President admitted that the CIA had secret prisons overseas. Yet in nearly the same breath he said, “The US does not torture. I have not authorized it and I will not”