Archive for November, 2009

Broadside Balladeer Vic Sadot recorded this original song in Berkeley, backed by the Pink Police Chorus. Vic writes:

John Yoo wrote legal briefs for the Bush-Cheney regime to justify torturing prisoners who were held for years without charges. According to the International Red Cross, over 100 prisoners died in these secret torture sessions. Some people defend John Yoo’s position as a professor of law at UC Berkeley on grounds of “free speech” and “academic freedom”. However, as Dan Siegel clarifies, the issue is about what Yoo did while on leave as legal counsel to the Bush-Cheney regime, which constitutes criminality, not his academic work. This song came along while doing actions in Berkeley, CA with Code Pink Goldengate. * See the Dan Siegel video clip titled “Demonstration Against Torture and John Yoo - Dan Siegel”