The National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) is an interfaith coalition of more than 325 religious organizations committed to ending U.S.-sponsored torture. Rev. Ron Stief, Executive Director, will discuss NRCAT's campaign to close the Guantanamo prison and ban the torture of U.S. detainees. This campaign is intricately linked to NRCAT's work to mobilize solitary confinement survivors to end torture in U.S. prisons.
The clarion call for racial justice and the moral urgency to get this country back on a human rights footing are converging to shift power and win policy fights. But we need to be wary - Washington D.C. is severely broken, and the movement to overthrow our democracy is thriving.
Rev. Stief is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ (UCC). A national leader and faith strategist on ending the torture of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, jails and detention centers, he speaks widely at colleges, interfaith events, and state coalition actions.
Previously, Rev. Stief directed the UCC Washington D.C. office. There, he led advocacy for its 5,500 congregations and 1.2 million members nationwide on a range of domestic and international issues, through the UCC's Washington D.C. and United Nations offices. Rev. Stief has taught social ethics as an adjunct faculty member of the Pacific School of Religion and Starr King School for the Ministry, both in Berkeley, CA and McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.
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