by Sharat G. Lin and Gil Villagrán Santa Clara County Supervisor Pete McHugh joined human rights and peace activists from San Jose and the Peninsula in calling for an end to torture and extraordinary rendition. They picketed the local office of Jeppesen, asking the Boeing subsidiary to break its contract with the CIA, servicing “torture flights.” Bearing witness to the torture committed at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad, Iraq; and at secret prisons around the world, Peninsula peace and justice activists boarded the train to San José on Friday, June 20, 2008, then marched to the building housing the penthouse offices of Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. to speak out against torture and extraordinary rendition (a CIA euphemism for kidnap and transport to secret prisons in third countries for...
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