MnyrcatENDTORTURE

MNYRCAT (Metro NY Religious Campaign Aginst Torture) event on the occasion of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (6/26/09) at NY Friends Meeting House.
June 26 U.N. International Day in Support of Victims and Survivors of Torture at 3.30 p.m. -- with:

Dr. Ashin Nayaka, International Burmese Monks Organization
- Michael Feinberg, Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
- Rev. Mark Hallinan, Society of Jesuits
- Sarah Sayeed, Interfaith Center of New York
- George Horton, Catholic Charities
- Rabbi Ellen Lippman, Kolot Chayeinu reading the testimony of a Jewish Chilean torture survivor
- Marjorie Cornwall, 15th Street Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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