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Subject: 	[RHRJ-certificate] NEXT WEEK! (Th., Apr. 18 @ 4 pm) "The 
Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, " A Book Talk 
with Flint Taylor
Date: 	Mon, 8 Apr 2019 12:06:34 +0000
From: 	Jennifer Nye <jlnye at history.umass.edu>
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*"The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago," A Book 
Talk with Civil Rights Attorney Flint Taylor *

*Thursday April 18, 2019, 4pm, in 601 Herter Hall, UMass Amherst*

*Open to the Public | Facebook Event 
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| Umass Calendar 
<https://www.umass.edu/events/talk-torture-machine-%E2%80%94-racism>*

Introduction by Dr. Toussaint Losier, Du Bois Department of 
Afro-American Studies

With his colleagues at the *People’s Law Office* 
<https://peopleslawoffice.com/> (PLO), *Flint Taylor* 
<https://peopleslawoffice.com/about-civil-rights-lawyers/attorney-staff-bios/flint-taylor/> 
has argued landmark civil rights cases that have exposed corruption and 
cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the 
city’s corrupt political machine.

/*The Torture Machine* 
<https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1151-the-torture-machine>/ takes 
the reader from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party chairman Fred 
Hampton and Panther Mark Clark—and the historic, thirteen-years of 
litigation that followed—through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon 
Burge, the leader of a torture ring within the CPD that used barbaric 
methods, including electric shock, to elicit false confessions from 
suspects.

Joining forces with community activists, torture survivors and their 
families, other lawyers, and local reporters, Taylor and the PLO 
gathered evidence from multiple cases to bring suit against the CPD 
officers and the City of Chicago. As the struggle expanded beyond the 
torture scandal to the ultimately successful campaign to end the death 
penalty in Illinois, and obtained reparations for many of the torture 
survivors, it set human rights precedents that have since been adopted 
across the United States.

About the Speaker:

Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People’s Law Office in 
Chicago. He was one of the lawyers who represented the families of slain 
Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in the landmark civil 
rights case against the Chicago police, the Cook County state’s 
attorney, and the FBI’s COINTELPRO agents. For more than thirty years he 
has represented numerous survivors of Chicago police torture in criminal 
and civil cases, as well as in seeking reparations. He was also 
co-counsel in the civil rights case brought by the victims of KKK and 
Nazi terror in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1979. He is still actively 
fighting against, and writing about, systemic police violence and racial 
injustice as a senior partner at the PLO, which will celebrate its 
fiftieth anniversary in August 2019.

Co-Sponsored by the Departments of History, Sociology, Legal Studies, 
Political Science, and Afro-American Studies and the Feinberg Lecture 
Series.

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