The Ghosts
of Abu Ghraib

The film by Rory Kennedy about torture at Abu Ghraib will be shown

Thursday, October 25, 2007, at 7:30 pm

in the First Day School at Princeton Friends Meeting,
470 Quaker Road

This showing is co-sponsored by:
Princeton Friends Meeting,
The Anti-Torture Advocacy Group of Nassau Presbyterian Church,
The Coalition for Peace Action
All Are Members of the National Religious Coalition Against Torture

This 82 minute film was an official selection at the American Documentary Competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.  It has been chosen by NRCAT to be shown as widely as possible.  Comments by Abu Ghraib MPs in the film: “That place turned me into a monster.” “It’s easy to sit back in America or in different countries and say, ‘Oh, I would have never done that’, but, until you’ve been there, let’s be realistic: You don’t know what you would have done.”  Ultimately, the film raises serious questions about what happened, why it happened and whether it was an isolated incident, as the government continues to maintain.

Discussion following the film will be led by the Rev. Dr. George Hunsinger, Professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture.

Directions to the Friends Meeting from central Princeton:
Go on Mercer Street past the Battlefield Park.  Take the first left after that,
onto Quaker Road (as if going to the malls on US 1), but make another left immediately around the little traffic island and go into the driveway of the Meeting.  Go into the parking lot to park.  Then walk toward the Meeting building (far end of lot) on the asphalt path, keeping the graveyard wall on your right, turn the corner, continue along asphalt path with graveyard still on right.  At the end of the graveyard is a U-shaped building.  Enter at the base of the U.

Do not bring children; this is a very disturbing film.

Coalition for Peace Action, Princeton, NJ
609-924-5022 - emai: cfpa@peacecoalition.org