Featuring:

• His Excellency Juan Gabriel Valdés, Ambassador of Chile to the United States and former colleague of Orlando Letelier at the Institute for Policy Studies
• John Dinges, co-author (with Saul Landau) of Assassination on Embassy Row and professor of journalism at Columbia University
• Music by Patricio Zamorano
• Josephine F. Kalipeni, Director of Policy & Partnerships, Caring Across Generations Campaign
• Daniel Weiss, Chief of Staff, Rep. George Miller (D-CA)
• John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies (emcee)

Background

On September 21, 1976, agents of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile detonated a car bomb on Washington, DC’s Embassy Row, taking the lives but not the memory of Institute for Policy Studies colleagues Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt.

Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador to the United States, had become one of the most outspoken critics of the Pinochet regime. Moffitt was a 25-year-old IPS development associate. For more than three decades, the pursuit of justice for their murders has been a symbol of hope for victims of tyranny everywhere.

On the Sunday closest to the date of this tragic event, human rights activists, friends, family, and colleagues gather in remembrance of Letelier and Moffitt and to reflect on the ongoing struggle for human rights around the world.

This program will take place outdoors at the site of the assassination and end with a laying of flowers on the Letelier-Moffitt memorial across the street from Sheridan Circle. Please bring flowers.

You are also invited to the 37th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards on October 14, 2014,  5:30 pm at Carnegie Institution, 1530 P Street NW, Washington, DC. Early bird tickets will be available until September 15th.