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New York Quakers On Torture

  • C Wess Daniels

C Wess Daniels

10 Feb 2009

The New York Yearly Meeting of Quakers put a minute together on torture and then made a video of people reading it. I thought it was good enough to share with all of you.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMbeDd_W9AM&w=525&h=444]

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