{"id":1058,"date":"2022-03-14T14:16:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2022-06-08T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T11:00:00","slug":"appalachian-state-univ-students-call-on-nc-governor-to-investigate-torture-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncstn.org\/content\/2022\/03\/14\/appalachian-state-univ-students-call-on-nc-governor-to-investigate-torture-taxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Appalachian State Univ. students call on Gov. Cooper & AG Stein to investigate “torture taxis”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In 2020, students in Dr. Belinda Walzer’s course Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum in the English Department at Appalachian State University took on an unusual assignment.  They put together a short video explaining North Carolina’s role in the CIA rendition-and-torture program that was a key part of the U.S. “war on terror” launched shortly after the devastating events of September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The video team included Vanessa Nowak, Daisy Alvarez-Lopez, Asheley Holloman, and Luke Robinson.  “We chose this topic because it hit really close to home,” Vanessa said. “All of us had probably driven by the site at some point in our lives and had no idea what was happening there. We felt that it was important to spread the word about this, as North Carolinians and to do our part for a grassroots effort.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The video encourages viewers to\nsign a petition to NC Governor Roy Cooper and NC Attorney General Roy Cooper to\ninvestigate the state’s role in hosting “torture taxis.”  These\nwere the jet aircraft stationed in Smithfield and Kinston that masqueraded\nas civilian planes, and were used to fly Muslim people snatched overseas to CIA\nblack sites where secret detention and torture were routine.  Although at\nleast 49 people are known to have been kidnapped using these planes and\nterribly mistreated, there has never been any official acknowledgement or\nredress in their cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The students hope that\ntheir advocacy video will motivate people of all ages,\nincluding young people, to look back critically at the torture conducted during\nthe “war on terror” and how it has damaged the moral standing\nand reputation of our state.  They want the public to know they can\nact to make a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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