Ask your organizations to endorse, too.*
Local human rights organizations have been working for years to investigate the connection between extraordinary rendition and North Carolina. Because the Convention Against Torture requires the US to take affirmative action to investigate and seek justice when it has engaged in torture, these groups have repeatedly asked our governor to step in where the national government has failed. So far, the governor has refused. For this reason, we are now calling for an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate. A panel representing the political and geographic breadth of our state will select the commissioners. The process will result in a report, to be formally announced and distributed publicly. When the report becomes available, Community UCC members will be invited to read, analyze, discuss and consider action based on the report's recommendations.
* Endorsing organizations are asked to have a designated person/group who will reach out to other groups (ours is Cy King); make a donation to create a seed fund for matches to this process (CUCC did); agree to read, analyze, discuss and consider action when the report is released (several SJM members have committed).
Local human rights organizations have been working for years to investigate the connection between extraordinary rendition and North Carolina. Because the Convention Against Torture requires the US to take affirmative action to investigate and seek justice when it has engaged in torture, these groups have repeatedly asked our governor to step in where the national government has failed. So far, the governor has refused. For this reason, we are now calling for an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate. A panel representing the political and geographic breadth of our state will select the commissioners. The process will result in a report, to be formally announced and distributed publicly. When the report becomes available, Community UCC members will be invited to read, analyze, discuss and consider action based on the report's recommendations.
* Endorsing organizations are asked to have a designated person/group who will reach out to other groups (ours is Cy King); make a donation to create a seed fund for matches to this process (CUCC did); agree to read, analyze, discuss and consider action when the report is released (several SJM members have committed).