Comments on: June is Torture Awareness Month http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/ A blog exploring the intersection of social justice, human rights based education, and folklife studies. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: marty http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-38 marty Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:04:45 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-38 it was downtown in raleigh. i'm curious if others have seen them too. it was downtown in raleigh. i’m curious if others have seen them too.

]]> By: meredith http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-37 meredith Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:08:31 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-37 I so agree. I never thought of faith based organizations being human rights based, but I think that is because we have too few models. I am learning more and more that there can be such a direct link between the two. When I was in DC this past week I saw a big black banner on a church near Embassy Row. Where was the banner you saw? Anyone else seen one? I so agree. I never thought of faith based organizations being human rights based, but I think that is because we have too few models. I am learning more and more that there can be such a direct link between the two.

When I was in DC this past week I saw a big black banner on a church near Embassy Row. Where was the banner you saw?

Anyone else seen one?

]]> By: marty http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-36 marty Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:16:42 +0000 http://meredith-martin.com/blog/june-is-torture-awareness-month/#comment-36 i'm glad you posted this. the other day i saw a big black banner with bold white text hanging off the fence of a baptist church that said "end torture". patrick and i talked about it and wondering about its contextual placement (and design). had it been placed by an activist without the church's approval? was it "graffiti"? i never thought of baptists as particularly human rights based. (biased view i know, just going off of my extended families southern baptist tendencies) then i wondered about my immediate reaction. why couldn't a faith based organization also be human rights based? i agree with you that the intersection of faith and social justice is an interesting one. i know it made me think. i’m glad you posted this. the other day i saw a big black banner with bold white text hanging off the fence of a baptist church that said “end torture”. patrick and i talked about it and wondering about its contextual placement (and design). had it been placed by an activist without the church’s approval? was it “graffiti”? i never thought of baptists as particularly human rights based. (biased view i know, just going off of my extended families southern baptist tendencies) then i wondered about my immediate reaction. why couldn’t a faith based organization also be human rights based?

i agree with you that the intersection of faith and social justice is an interesting one. i know it made me think.

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