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Veterans to Obama: Release Guantanamo Prisoners Now!

June 25, 2013 Staff, www.CloseGitmo.net , ,
Hunger striking members of Veterans For Peace will be joined by multiple organizations and scores of protesters outside the White House on Wednesday, June 26, to press their demand for the closure of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “Just think about it: 86 prisoners are cleared for release by the government -- the Department of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security over a year ago, and they're still being held. Many of them have been held for over 11 years! This is a violation of our moral and religious principles, international law, and national law. It is also a violation of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the things that are supposed to define America. “I just can't sit and enjoy my life when my country is doing such terrible things to these people. It's up to us to force our government to get them out of there.”

Join Campaign to Close Guantanamo Tomorrow June 26 at the White House

June 25, 2013 Staff, www.witnesstorture.org , ,
Weeks past President Obama’s speech announcing his renewed intention to close Guantanamo, human rights activists — including three US military veterans on open-ended fasts in solidarity with hunger striking Guantanamo detainees — will stage dramatic protests on Wednesday, June 26th at the White House calling on the President to turn his promise into action. In response to the hunger strike of Guantanamo detainees, several US citizens have for weeks been on open-ended fasts, suffering the health effects of sustained hunger. They hope with their immense sacrifice to draw attention to the plight of the Guantanamo detainees and force the President to act.

This Week: Close Guantanamo, Stop US Torture of Hunger Strikers

June 22, 2013 Margaret, www.populareresistance.org , ,
This Wednesday, June 26, is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Veterans who are on hunger strike with prisoners in Guantanamo Bay will come to Washington, DC to protest at the White House. The call for support for this push is made even more urgent by news in the Guardian that the prison has stepped up abuse of the hunger strikers in order to get them to stop their fast. According to the Guardian, Shaker Aamer, a British prisoner in the camp who has been on hunger strike for four months, reports that the prison is placing the hunger strikers in freezing cold rooms and using metal-tipped feeding tubes. This is happening because US authorities are getting desperate.

Join the Campaign to Close Guantanamo

June 19, 2013 Matthew W. Daloisio, www.popularresistance.org ,
Guantanamo has been open for 4,177 days. In a major speech on national security on May 23, President Obama promised to begin releasing the 86 prisoners still held at Guantanamo Bay who were cleared to leave by his inter-agency task force in January 2010 but are still held. It has been 27 DAYS since President Obama’s speech. 0 men have been released. There can be No More Excuses on Guantanamo. We will be judged by our actions, not our speeches. Please JOIN US TO ACT on behalf of the men who remain detained.

Video Update: Save the Innocent, Close Gitmo

June 17, 2013 Elliott Adams, www.closegitmo.net , ,
Born in 1967 he could be my son – tortured for 10 years by my government, 10 years when he was at the prime of life. I don’t know if the pain for me is greater thinking of this young man or thinking of the despotism of a government in my name. He keeps creeping into my mind. Djamal Ameziane came from a close family with 4 brothers and 4 sisters. Djamal left his home, Algeria, to avoid persecution for his religion, lived in Austria and Canada working for years as a head chef and selling office supplies waiting for process of his immigration papers. After both countries denied him and fearing he would be deported to Algeria, he headed for Afghanistan thinking this is one country that would not persecute him for being a Muslim. Djamal is an accomplished young man, with a college degree and work experience managing public water systems, he speaks something like 4 languages.

You Don’t Solve Mistakes With More Mistakes

June 15, 2013 Terry Kay Rockefeller, www.PopularResistance.org ,
Along with fellow members of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, I have been protesting the corrupt and cruel Guantanamo system for years. I came to Yemen to deepen my understanding, but sitting face-to-face with the families whose lives have been devastated, I am sickened anew by how my country’s responses to 9/11 continue to multiply the pain and injury of the attacks. At a meeting with families of Guantanamo detainees arranged by HOOD, a human rights organization in Sana’a, we are introduced to a 12-year-old girl who has only seen her father, in photographs and via videoconferences arranged by the Red Cross. She weeps as she shows us his picture.

Tarak Kauff: Why I am on Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Guantanamo Prisoners

June 14, 2013 Tarak Kauff, www.PopularResistance.org , ,
To keep things in perspective, my own hunger strike is a small sacrifice compared to what the prisoners are going through. I am not kept in solitary confinement; I do not have burly U.S. military guards bursting into my cell, slamming my face against the floor, breaking my nose, my teeth and bones. I do not have my head shoved into a toilet bowl as I am told to drink. I am not strapped down for two hours while a tube is painfully pushed through my nasal passage so I can be force fed. I am not deprived of seeing my loved ones, my children. I am not treated as a sub-human object to be brutalized and shown no human kindness. The Guantánamo Bay prison is a blight on America's soul. Having lived in the United States for all of my 71 years — am I not part of that soul? Are not the torture and hellish conditions perpetrated at Guantanamo Bay prison an abomination, a black mark on every U.S. American's soul? I ask this question of myself and all of us.

Elliott Adams: Why I Fast with the Guantanamo Prisoners

June 14, 2013 , , ,
We can end this terrible travesty of our values, but it will take a broad-spectrum critical mass that includes Christians, Muslims and Jews, Democrats and Republicans, leftists and conservatives. This is an affront to what all of us believe in. I beg you to join the effort to get the prisoners out of Guantanamo and shut that place down. Fast if it feels right for you, call your congressman, sign the petitions, they are all good. But I need you, the prisoners need you, indeed our nation needs you to educate yourself about this travesty so you can be a spokesperson for the simple decency, for the basic humanity that you believe in. You may reach out based on your religious beliefs, or based on the law, or based on labor principles, or based on what you believe the American values are. You can talk to one person or a hundred, you can twitter, or facebook, or organize actions, but please reach out to everyone and anyone everywhere and anywhere.

Diane Wilson: Why I am on a Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo

June 14, 2013 Diane Wilson, www.closegitmo.net , , ,
Okay, President Obama, the time to talk and ruminate is over with! Now is the time for action. And what can you do? Well, pardon a backwoods shrimper from the Gulf Coast for saying this, but Congress may have imposed unprecedented restriction on detainee transfers, but you still have the power to transfer men. Right now. You can and should use the certification/waiver process created by Congress to transfer detainees. According to the ACLU, there are two essential first steps the President must take. One is to appoint a senior point person for the administration’s Guantanamo closure policy that is directed by the White House and not by Pentagon bureaucrats. The President can also order the Secretary of Defense to start certifying for transfer detainees who have been cleared, which is more than half the Guantanamo population
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