our group has been protesting US policy of torturing since 2003.
We had a video contest last year about Torture. It was to get the young audience to care and join groups to stop torture.
Well, we are doing it again this year. You don't have be young to submit a video.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1501437333437741/
Submission deadline for videos: MARCH 1, 2015.
Prizes: $500 Jury Prizes in Serious and Satirical Categories and $300 Audience Favorite Prizes in the same two categories (for more info and rules, see http://tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com/ )
Tackling Torture at the Top (T3), a committee of Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) announces a video contest on the subject of torture and torture accountability. (See Contest Rules for rules, deadlines and prizes.)
Despite US and international law prohibiting the use of torture the US has used torture, often euphemistically called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” in its so-called “War on Terror”. Despite the law, despite documented proof that such efforts produce inadmissable evidence, false information and false confessions, and despite the blowback of such efforts, the US continues to shield the lawbreakers--both those who committed and those who authorized torture--by “Looking forward, not backward,” and there is evidence that such techniques continue to be used and falsely justified.
Tackling Torture at the Top, through this contest, hopes to produce entertaining and informative videos that contradict this harmful and inhumane view, educate the public, raise questions about the direction of our foreign policy and our use of the military, and by so doing, give the public the awareness and courage to rein in our country’s out of control security apparatus.
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