Peace Activists Use Billboard to Call for Firing of UC Law Professor (John Yoo)

Source: berkeley daily planet

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“Torture + silence = complicity,” says the billboard above Round Table Pizza on University Avenue near Milvia Street, its orange background evocative of the Abu Ghraib prisoner jumpsuits.

That billboard is not exactly what activists had envisioned. They wanted an image of a torture victim and the words “Fire John Yoo” with a link to firejohnyoo.org, said Giovanni Jackson, of the Fire John Yoo Coalition.

The coalition is made up of the World Can’t Wait, the Coalition for an Ethical American Psychological Association, Act Against Torture, the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute and individuals such as Elliot Cohen from the Peace and Justice Commission and Gray Brechin, noted author and UC Berkeley geography professor.

They thought that at the $500 per month billboard rent, they could craft the message as they saw fit.

However, billboard companies, it appears, get to control the message. CBS Outdoor, which owns the billboard, turned down the originally proposed “Fire John Yoo” billboard but accepted the other, Jackson said.


Read more: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-08-07/article/30768?headline=Peace-Activists-Use-Billboard-to-Call-for-Firing-of-UC-Law-Professor

I wonder if he even cares that nearly everyone around him wants him gone.

Woo hoo, expose law mangler John Yoo.

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If they didn’t put up the ad the advertiser wanted, I’d say the advertiser can let CBS Outdoor eat the cost. There’s nothing illegal about advocating the firing of John Yoo (First Amendment and all that), and since our tax dollars paid for the torture that Yoo worked so hard to justify, it’s hard to see how that could be considered inappropriate or obscene or whatever other justification CBS Outdoor is proffering for changing the advertiser’s billboard.

So many people protecting torturers. You’d almost think it was a concerted effort. A conspiracy, even.