2 pm
YOO BE GONE – DISMISS, DISBAR, PROSECUTE UC TORTURE PROFESSOR JOHN YOO

Join Us! “Trick or Treat” to Tell the Chancellor & Law School Dean “Dismiss Yoo”, “Yoo Be Gone” Ritual, Hand out Candy

2PM Meet Café Strada, College & Bancroft, Berkeley; 2:30PM Chancellor Birgeneau’s office, 200 Calif. Hall #1500, UC campus; 3PM Law School, Bancroft@ College

IT’S VERY SIMPLE: TORTURE IS NEVER LEGAL

We, citizens, students, faculty and groups* call on the University of California to dismiss Yoo, and for Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Yoo for giving legal advice that torture is legal when he worked for the Department of Justice. Yoo’s complicity in torture is a felony under federal law. Just as lawyers were convicted at Nuremburg, Yoo must be held accountable. Yoo is unethical, incompetent, immoral, and a criminal. He should NOT be teaching at UC. Yoo’s actions have endangered our country. Torture is the #1 recruiting tool for terrorists. We are all living with the shame and fear of having a government that tortures. Children have been tortured and at least 100 detainees have died, says the International Red Cross. We stand in witness of his crimes against humanity.

Ways to Help

• TELL UC TO DISMISS YOO NOW. This should be Yoo’s last semester teaching at UC. Call Law School Dean Chris Edley, 510-642-1741 and Chancellor Birgeneau, 510-642-7464

• Add Your Name to Campaigns to Disbar Yoo

National Lawyers Guild Voters for Peace

Tell United States Attorney General Eric Holder to Prosecute John Yoo: Call: 202-514-2001 Email: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

“I ask you, out of a concern for justice, a concern for humanity, and a concern for our reputation as a university, to dismiss Professor John Yoo from membership in our university.” UC Professor Brad DeLong to U.C. Law School Dean Christopher Edley.
“If writing memoranda authorizing torture — actions which then directly lead to the systematic commission of torture — doesn’t make one a war criminal in the U.S., what does?…. Yoo wasn’t acting as a lawyer in order legally to analyze questions surrounding interrogation powers. He was acting with the intent to enable illegal torture and used the law as his instrument to authorize criminality.” Glenn Greenwald, www.salon.com/opinion
“John Yoo took a material involvement in the deaths and torture of untold numbers of people. The broken bodies, the broken spirits, the broken trust he wrought with his actions - that’s why they call these crimes against humanity.” Max Anderson, Berkeley City Councilmember

*National Accountability Action Network (NAAN), Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), CODEPINK, Velvet Revolution, National Lawyers Guild, afterdowningstreet.org, Voters for Peace, Berkeley Peace & Justice Commission

Contact: Cynthia Papermaster, Accountability Action Network, www.actforjustice.org, 510-333-6097, cynthia_papermasteratyahoo.com; Susan Harman, Progressive Democrats of America, susanharman1atgmail.com