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Culture Project’s Groundbreaking “Blueprint For Accountability” Event Plays To A Sold Out Audience

June 9, 2010, New York, NY – Culture Project’s “Blueprint for Accountability” event—a groundbreaking fusion of theater, film and journalism—played to a sold out audience on June 7th at 7:30PM at NYU Skirball Center.

“Blueprint for Accountability” featured provocative panel discussions with former CIA Officer Valerie Plame Wilson, retired Iraq commander Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez, author and environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., best-selling author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, and Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren.

Punctuating the experts’ discussion, Director Fisher Stevens (The Cove, 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary) screened vital archival footage and directed theatrical scenes starring acclaimed actors James Spader, Liev Schreiber, Julianna Margulies, Mariska Hargitay and Matt Dillon.

“Blueprint for Accountability” assembled some of the nation’s leading and most influential voices to debate and examine the unparalleled events, policies and circumventions of the previous administration. This forum urged policy makers, the military, and world citizens to craft a decisive moral response capable of restoring both America’s dignity and standing throughout the international community and bring back long-held our values of justice and liberty; ultimately creating a ‘blueprint for accountability’.

Bobby Kennedy, Jr. called for a restoration of the Rule of Law and a return to the democratic ideals enshrined in the Constitution, calling into question President Obama’s ability to fulfill the mandate given by the American people in his 2008 election. “But will Obama lead us out of torture?” Warren asked.

Suskind and Styron were cautiously optimistic, touting America’s grassroots values and urging concerned individuals to hold public demonstrations and make their voices heard by the Obama administration, putting an end to ongoing abuses in the War on Terror. A number of solutions were offered, including a truth commission to investigate crimes committed in the Iraq War, though Warren remained wary of amnesty for officials implicated in the process.

The event featured several calls-to-action from prominent human rights organizations—including the Center for Constitutional Rights, Alliance For Justice, and Theaters Against War—with a special reading by Hargitay of Sister Dianna Ortiz’s letter to President Obama, part of Amnesty International’s “Ten Against Torture” campaign.

For more than a decade, Culture Project has been on the forefront in the movement to restore our system of democracy and standing in the international community. In 2002, the company catapulted to national prominence with its acclaimed production of The Exonerated, a dramatization of the real-life stories of six exonerated death row inmates that spurred Illinois Governor George Ryan’s decision to commute his state’s 156 death row sentences to life in prison.

"Democracy demands that we have accountability to prevent abuse of power by elected officials. This event was sold out in no time, and it tells me that people really care. If you sweep this under the rug, it festers indefinitely."

- Valerie Plame Wilson, "outed" former CIA official

http://www.pr-inside.com/culture-project-s-groundbreaking-blueprint-r1942286.htm

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And he's losing the moderate center.....whats left? 3 individuals in Congress? Do we even need name them...