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<td>[RHRJ-certificate] NEXT WEEK! (Th., Apr. 18 @ 4 pm) "The
Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago, "
A Book Talk with Flint Taylor</td>
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<td>Mon, 8 Apr 2019 12:06:34 +0000</td>
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<td>Jennifer Nye <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jlnye@history.umass.edu"><jlnye@history.umass.edu></a></td>
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<td>RHRJ Certificate Listserv
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rhrj-certificate@wost.umass.edu"><rhrj-certificate@wost.umass.edu></a>, WOST Listserv
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style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#351C75">"The
Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago," A
Book Talk with Civil Rights Attorney Flint Taylor </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="color:black">Thursday April 18, 2019, </span>4<span
style="color:black">pm, in 601 Herter Hall, UMass Amherst</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="color:black">Open to the Public | </span><span
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style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">Introduction
by Dr. Toussaint Losier, Du Bois Department of Afro-American
Studies<br>
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With his colleagues at the <a
href="https://peopleslawoffice.com/" target="_blank"
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<b>People’s Law Office</b></a> (PLO), <a
href="https://peopleslawoffice.com/about-civil-rights-lawyers/attorney-staff-bios/flint-taylor/"
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<b>Flint Taylor</b></a> 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.<br>
<br>
<i><a
href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1151-the-torture-machine"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><b>The Torture
Machine</b></a></i> 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 fro<span
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suspects.</span><br>
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<span
class="m-2009910050789915962m7044638483075088798m-6408858848212258783gmail-textexposedshow">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.</span><br>
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<span
class="m-2009910050789915962m7044638483075088798m-6408858848212258783gmail-textexposedshow">About
the Speaker:</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">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.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">Co-Sponsored
by the Departments of History, Sociology, Legal Studies,
Political Science, and Afro-American Studies and the
Feinberg Lecture Series.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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