Most Valuable Crusade: When no one else seemed to be getting serious about challenging the Bush-Cheney administration’s taste for torture, THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT movement developed an orange campaign – appropriating the color of the jump suits worn by detainees – to highlight popular opposition to violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. As the torture issue came front and center, DEBRA SWEET and other World Can’t Wait activists – most of them veterans of the pre-war Not In Our Name movement — were already there with a smart, uncompromising challenge to untenable practices and an untenable status quo.
The article can be found at The Nation