Tribute to Justice

Monday September 9, 2013 @ 583 Park Avenue, NYC

The Charles Horman Truth Foundation brings together champions of justice whose efforts led to the detention and prosecution of coup leader Augusto Pinochet for crimes against humanity. This historic effort and the dynamic new legal doctrines which resulted, will be discussed at the afternoon panel discussions. Then join us for a Dinner Awards Ceremony honoring those who brought Pinochet to justice. Artists and activists whose work contributed to the exposure and investigation of Pinochet’s crimes over the years, and helped to foster a worldwide human rights movement, will present the Tribute to Justice awards to those being honored.

Evening Dinner Ceremony

Award Recipients

Center for Constitutional Rights

Peter Weiss, Nancy Stearns, John Corwin, Rhonda Copelon (posthumously)

Juan Garcés 

Judge Baltasar Garzón 

Sir Geoffrey Bindman, QC 

Ambassador John O'Leary (posthumously)

Peter Kornbluh 

Judge Juan Guzmán Tapia 

Award Presenters (Pending)

Joyce Horman, Patricio Guzmán, Costa Gavras, Joan Jara, Chris Lemmon, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Deborah Shaffer 

Event Co-Hosts

Michael Ratner, Amy Goodman 

Honorary Co-Chairs

Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Joyce Horman, Board Chair, The Charles Horman Truth Foundation

John Cavanagh, Director, Institute for Policy Studies

Cynthia Soohoo, Director, International Women's Rights Clinic, CUNY School of Law

7pm - Dinner festive dress

8pm - Award Ceremony

9pm - Music by Chilean singer-songwriter Claudia Acuña

To receive updates by email, please write to:2013event@hormantruth.org

Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here

Dear Friends and Allies,

Warm summer greetings. I wanted to share with you the good news that my book, "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism," has just been published, at last. 

http://www.amazon.com/Your-Fatwa-Does-Apply-Here/dp/0393081583

Inspired by my father Mahfoud Bennoune's work in Algeria, it tells the stories of progressive people (journalists, artists, women's rights activists, etc...) who have risked everything to stand up to extremism and terror - stories rarely heard in the West.   For the book, I interviewed nearly 300 people of Muslim heritage from almost 30 countries - from Afghanistan to Mali.  Thank you so much to all of you for your support with this project during the writing and research.  Now, I am writing to ask for your support and advice in spreading the word about the book any way you can.

  

I would be most honored if you might consider reading "Your Fatwa", giving the book to friends, sharing the link with any friends, family, colleagues, bookstores, websites, listservs and libraries near you. If you do modern things involving social media (unlike this dinosaur), please feel free to share that way too.  (If you do forward this email, please don't send my Email address along with it... thanks.) If you have ideas about places where I could give talks or readings, or booksignings, that would be great too. Whether or not the book is translated into other languages will depend on how well it does in English, so any and all support greatly appreciated. If you have time to read the book, and happen to like it, please consider writing a review on the amazon or barnes and noble sites - or "liking" the book on their sites.

You can also visit www.karimabennoune.com to see additional material not in the book in case you are interested.

Once I get through the book tour, I hope that I will get to catch up with you all. I have missed friends and colleagues during all this wandering and writing - though it has been the most amazing adventure - like three years of studying in the university of the world....  Thank you so much for any ideas you have on getting the word out - this is a rare opportunity for our perspectives to be heard, but I know you are all very busy.

warm wishes and thanks, karima