The release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's executive summary on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation program has been met with outrage across the media. The report's revelations of post-9/11 torture, deception, and its pages of redacted names, dates, and places are all equally distressing.

One day after the release of the Senate report on CIA's torture programs, the New York Times ran an Op-Ed by Army veteran Eric Fair entitled “I Can’t be Forgiven for Abu Ghraib.” Fair, who has been publishing doleful public confessions of his participation in the Abu Ghraib torture program for years, draws a pathetic picture of himself as a still-repenting and increasingly wise character in a post-Iraq American landscape.

The protests that followed the non-indictments of the racist, murderous police officers in the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases have given me a keen awareness and understanding of what solidarity really needs to be in a movement. Solidarity is more than compassion, or empathy. It involves more than realizing or checking your privilege. It definitely involves more action than just “feeling sorry” about said privilege. Solidarity, especially when you occupy a privileged space, means using your voice to amplify others.