-----Original Message----- From: Voices for Creative Nonviolence [mailto:info=vcnv.org at mail298.us3.mcdlv.net] On Behalf Of Voices for Creative Nonviolence Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 10:00 AM To: cbcox at ilstu.edu Subject: Emergency Response to the Guantánamo Hunger Strike
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Hunger Strike – Emergency Response
We will gather for action in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities domestically and internationally next week to denounce the barbaric practice of torture and indefinite detention and to demand justice for the men at Guantanamo.
Joined by allies worldwide, Witness Against Torture members will fast for 7 days — Sunday, March 24 through Saturday, March 30– in solidarity with the men in Guantanamo on hunger strike.
Some of us will continue fasting every Friday until President Barack Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo is fulfilled.
We will try to reach the men at Guantanamo, their families, and men formerly detained to let them know that we have not forgotten their suffering.
We will continue to organize, agitate and witness in defense of human rights and the U.S. Constitution.
CHICAGO
Sunday, March 24th – 3pm: Demonstration at President Obama’s house in Hyde Park.
Tuesday, March 26th – 8am -9am: Vigil at the Lasalle & Jakckson Chicago, IL
Good Friday Stations of the Cross, March 29th – 12pm: Corner of Congress and Michigan in downtown Chicago
Saturday, March 30th, Time: TBA, Demonstration downtown at the federal building. Contact Chris with any questions by email <mailto:cknest11 at gmail.com> or phone: 216-798-9177.
NYC
Sunday, March 24th – 2-4pm: Vigil beginning in Times Square at 2pm. March to Rockefeller Center @ 3pm. Monday – Friday, March 25-30: Daily 1 hour public presence. Details TBA. Contact Matt with any questions by email <mailto:daloisio at riseup.net> or phone: 201-264-4424.
LOS ANGELES
Rotating Fast – Vigils at the Federal Building – Alameda & Aliso Streets (Monday – Saturday, March 25-30) Contact: Jeff – 323 267 8789
DES MOINES
Sunday, March 24th – 2-4pm: Vigil in Des Moines at the 35th Street Mall contact Palina <mailto:pprasasouk at gmail.com> .
TOLEDO
Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition weekly demos in Toledo. Friday peace vigil in Fremont. Contact Josie for details by email <mailto:josiesetzler at gmail.com> or phone: 419-559-3759
OTHER CITIES
Contact us if you are holding a vigil or event in your community.
Other Actions You Can Take
Join the Fast Skip a meal & Send a Letter
Flood the prison with mail by downloading and sending this letter <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=a37f5393c7&e=22b63ca423> to a man detained in Guantanamo.
Skip a meal and use that time to send it, or donate the food cost to sending the letters.
Organize through social media
Take a photo of yourself in an orange jumpsuit and black hood in a public place and send it to witnesstorture at gmail.com
Change your facebook photo to this photo <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=de493d1d71&e=22b63ca423> for the week of March 24-30 and post to your friends and networks about your protest.
Follow Witness Against Torture on Twitter <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=7213e0f99b&e=22b63ca423> .
Call the White House and U.S. Military
Call the White House and insist that President Obama fulfill his promise to close Guantanamo. 202-456-1111 or submit a comment online <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=b09c961243&e=22b63ca423> .
Call the U.S. Southern Command to decry the conditions at Guantanamo. 305-437-1000
E-mail or write Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=380c561017&e=22b63ca423> and demand that he rapidly resume the transfers of all the men the Obama administration does not intend to charge.
Write: Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel, 1000 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301
Where Is the World?
Where is the world to save us from torture? Where is the world to save us from the fire and the darkness? Where is the world to save the hunger strikers? from “Hunger Strike Poem” by Adnan Latif, 37 – found dead in Guantanamo on Sept. 8, 2012
What would you do if you were imprisoned for more than ten years, without ever being charged with a crime? You were tortured and abused. You could not see your family. Your only visitors were interrogators and lawyers. And then you were cleared for release — deemed by your captors to be no threat — and told that the prison would close. But you remained locked up, with no end in sight. Who would hear your cries? What resistance could you mount?
This is the situation for dozens of men at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo. Fed up with their treatment and spurred by a new wave of abuses, they launched a hunger strike in February that is just now gaining attention in the U.S. press. Read more. <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=48f73363b2&e=22b63ca423>
More Info About the Hunger Strike
New York Times Article About the Hunger Strike <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=83e0bd70d9&e=22b63ca423>
Attorney Letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=19cdaa2f73&e=22b63ca423>
How Long Can the Government Pretend that the Massive Hunger Strike at Guantánamo Doesn’t Exist? <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=a401d5b0bd&e=22b63ca423>
Guantánamo hunger strike grows <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=65dfbc8cb1&e=22b63ca423>
Guantanamo: By the Numbers, Center for Constitutional Rights <http://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=63e635fc0e&e=22b63ca423>
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Witness Against Torture formed in 2005 when 25 Americans went to Guantánamo Bay to protest the detention facility. Since then, the group has organized vigils, marches, nonviolent direct actions, and educational events calling for the close of Guantánamo, an end to U.S. torture, accountability for the torturers, and justice for the victims.
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