Wellstone Documentary Film Series - "Taxi To The Dark Side" on Thursday, March 26 at 6:30 pm

This documentary tells the 2002 story of Dilawar, a young Afghan taxi driver who picks up three passengers and never returns home.  Five days later he winds up dead at Bagram Air Base, killed by injuries inflicted by US soldiers.  The interviews, net footage, and firsthand reports provide a gripping look at this controversial case and the Bush administration’s policy on torture.  The term “dark side” was coined by Vice President Dick Cheney during a “Meet the Press” interview when he stated that the US might have to use tactics of the “dark side” to contain terrorists.  The documentary has had excellent reviews:  Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe writes:  “the film quickly becomes one of the most powerful, carefully researched investigations of the moral-legal side effects of current American military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Tamard Straus, writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, suggests that the film’s winnning an Oscar must mean that “academy members also want Americans to be rattled by the country’s lost moral stature.”

Please join us for a viewing and lively discussion afterward on Thursday, March 26th.

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