<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Cambridge Forum<br> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138<br>617-495-2727<br>email: director@cambridgeforum.org<br>cambridgeforum.org<br><br><font size="4"><i><b>Release </b></i></font> <b>April 3, 2013</b><br><br><font size="4"><b>Cambridge Forum Looks at “The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror” with Victoria Brittain</b></font><br><br>On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Cambridge Forum hosts British journalist and playwright <b>Victoria Brittain</b> discussing her book <i>Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror.</i> <b>Nancy Murray</b>, Education Director at the ACLU of Massachusetts, moderates the discussion. The forum takes place at 7:00 pm at the First Parish in Cambridge, 3 Church Street in Harvard Square. <br><br>What happens to ordinary people, innocent people when a society abandons the rule of law? This is the question that author Victoria Brittain explores in her new book <i>Shadow Lives</i>. By examining the lives of the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US after 9/11, she shows how these families have been made scapegoats, justifying the state’s exercise of arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'. <i>Shadow Lives </i>documents how a culture of intolerance and cruelty has left individuals at the mercy of the security services’ unverifiable accusations and punitive punishments. What is our unquenchable post-9/11 thirst for security doing to our tradition of human rights and civil liberty?<br><b><br>Victoria Brittain</b> has lived and worked as a journalist in Washington (DC), Nairobi, Saigon, Algiers and London, and has traveled extensively in Africa and the Middle East. She worked at The Guardian for 20 years, finally as Associate Foreign Editor. She is the author of <i>Death of Dignity: Angola’s Civil War,</i> co-author of Moazzam Begg’s Guantanamo memoir,<i> Enemy Combatant</i>, and author and co-author of two verbatim plays.<br><br><b>Nancy Murray</b> is Director of Education at the ACLU of Massachusetts. She has wide experience as a teacher, scholar and social activist in Great Britain, Kenya, and the Middle East as well as the United States, and has written widely on the themes of civil liberties, civil and human rights. Since 9/11 she has worked through the ACLU of Massachusetts’ Civil Liberties Task Force to build a movement for civil rights and civil liberties across the Commonwealth. <br><br>Cambridge Forum is recorded and edited for public radio broadcast. Edited CDs are available to the public by contacting 617-495-2727. Select forums can be viewed in their entirety on demand by visiting our website at cambridgeforum.org and clicking on the Forum Network at WGBH.<br><br>#############<br></font></font></font></body><pre>
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