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Friday, October 19, 2007

Dear all,

On Friday, October 26 at Cinema Farnese the film "Taxi to the Dark Side"
(2007) will be screened at 8:30pm as part of the Rome Film Festival. The
film was directed by Alex Gibney of "Enron: the Smartest Guys in the
Room" fame and also recommended to us by Ret. Col. Ann Wright. It will
be screened in English with Italian subtitles.

We plan to see this important film together as a group and meet to discuss
it afterwards at a local bar. See a description of the film below by Executive
Producer Sidney Blumenthal.

Important: you are responsible for getting your own tickets. You can do so
in advance at Cinema Farnese on Campo de´ fiori, daily from 4:30pm to
10:30pm. You can also reserve tickets by email
(comunicazione@cinemafarnese.it) but must purchase them in person by
the day before the film. See their web site: http://www.cinemafarnese.it/ Tel
06 68 64 395

Seats are NOT numbered, so let´s try to meet there by 8:15 at the latest.

Please RSVP if you plan to come, and most importantly, if you plan to join
us afterwards to discuss the film so that we can try to reserve a table on a
Friday night near Campo de´ fiori! taxi@peaceandjustice.it

>From Executive Producer Sidney Blumenthal:
"Through the film runs the story of an Afghan taxi driver, known only as
Dilawar, completely innocent of any ties to terrorism, who was tortured to
death by interrogators in the U.S. prison at Bagram Air Base in
Afghanistan. `Taxi to the Dark Side´ traces the evolution of the Bush policy
from Bagram (..) to Guantánamo (..) to Abu Ghraib; its roots in sensory
deprivation experiments decades ago that guided the CIA in understanding
torture; the opposition within the administration from the military and other
significant figures (the former general counsel of the Navy, Alberto Mora,
and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence
Wilkerson, explain how that internal debate went, while John Yoo, one of its
architects, defends it); the congressional battle to restore the standard of
the Geneva Convention that forbids torture (centered on John McCain's
tragic compromise); and the sudden popularity of the Fox TV show `24´ in
translating torture into entertainment by means of repetitious formulations of
the bogus ticking-time-bomb scenario."

See you next Friday!

Gene, Maria, Maria Chiara, Michael and Stephanie
--
U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice - Rome
info@peaceandjustice.it
http://www.peaceandjustice.it