Ban Torture

What do you stand for?

Get Involved

  • Learn the facts
  • Link to this and other human rights sites to raise awareness
  • Speak out against torture on prime-time TV
  • Contact your Senator or Representative
  • Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper
  • Discuss with your friends, family, colleagues
  • Speak up in your church, synagogue, mosque, civic association, school, or club
  • Put up posters
  • Distribute fliers
  • Design posters or fliers
  • Sign a petition
  • Join an advocacy group
  • Donate money
  • Campaign for those who vow to end torture
  • Get your town or state to enact a resolution or law banning torture
  • Make and post a video
  • Start or join an online group
  • Watch a relevant movie
  • Read a relevant book
  • Write a movie or book review
  • Post in a blog
  • Write a speech or talking points for yourself or others
  • Help with a website
  • Help draft a bill or resolution
  • Create a PowerPoint presentation for yourself or others
  • Start a discussion group or book group
  • Start a local chapter
  • Organize something: a demonstration, letter writing campaign, discussion group
  • Take out an ad in a newspaper, magazine, website
  • Vote
  • Volunteer for a campaign
  • Contribute to an online discussion on Digg, Reddit, Fark

More ideas from American Friends Service Committee (pdf)