Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror" was presented at the Cooper Union in New York on October 13, 2009, sponsored by the ACLU, PEN American Center and the Cooper Union.
In front of a remarkable and chilling projected backdrop by Jenny Holzer, artists, activists and operatives read memos, testimonials, and transcripts documenting torture and torture policies. With writers and artists Don DeLillo, Jonathan Ames, Eve Ensler, Paul Auster, Nell Freudenberger, A.M. Homes, Susanna Moore, George Saunders, Jonathan Ames, and Art Spiegelman alongside Ishmael Beah (author and former child soldier), David Cole (author of The Torture Memos), Matthew Alexander (a former senior military interrogator), Jack Rice (former CIA special agent), and Amrit Singh (a former ACLU attorney who litigated post-9/11 abuse cases). With remarks by K. Anthony Appiah of PEN and Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU. Plus hear testimony from former Guantanamo detainees.
(80 minutes)









