Many of my readers know that I was the Director of the Denounce Torture Campaign with Amnesty International, USA this last year. One of my main focus was to educate America on the issues around human rights abuses when it comes to the War on Terror. Specifically, Torture. One of my last successes was to secure the arrival of a replica of a Gitmo Cell to tour the states during the Presidential election.
The UK section of Amnesty International has had some major success with their Unsubscribe campaign that utilizes Web 2.0, social networks, and viral marketing. This latest, powerful video was on the issue of water-boarding. It has received some major press and has become successfully viral.
It is wonderful to see such an organization really use these strategies in an effective way.
2 comments ↓
I got this video sent to me by 17 different people before 10am. Not one of them thinks about torture, so I’m going to say it’s working.
have you seen the vanity fair writeup by christopher hitchens on waterboarding? he even tapes himself being waterboarded. very hard to watch
http://sean808080.com/blog/all-this-talk-about-waterboarding-see-it-for-yourself/
Leave a Comment