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Students at Mt. Holyoke arranged a "Torture: Where's the Outrage?" campaign to raise awareness on campus and solicit signatures in favor of John McCain's Anti-Torture Amendment to the Defense Spending Bill.
"We wanted something creative and eye-catching to draw people in," one student said of their display outside the library featuring enlarged images of torture victims from Guantanamo. In addition, students stood in busy sections of the campus dressed as a torture victim while a partner asked people passing by to sign the petition.
The Mt. Holyoke ACLU Club collected 642 signatures in support of the Anti-Torture Amendment, a feat announced on the front page of the Mount Holyoke News.
Suggested Activities:
1 Hold a screening of the ACLU Freedom Files.
Check out the website
2 Table at your student union.
Email
Nancy Murray for materials.
3 Hold a Protest or Demonstration. See what students at Mt. Holyoke (left) did to organize against torture.
Learn more about your right to protest here.
4 Get creative: Organize a large group to flood your local pharmacy with requests for emergency contraception (EC, the morning after pill). Show them there is enough demand to stock EC.
