Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
At 8:00AM EST on January 8, Bob Edwards will be interviewing former Justice Department ethics attorney Jesselyn Radack about her new book, "The Canary in the Coalmine: Blowing the Whistle in the Case of 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh," the first victim of U.S. torture policy in the war on terrorism. The book is available at patriotictruthteller.net Ms. Radack will be speaking at the Shut Down Guantanamo event in D.C.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
At 8:00AM EST on January 8, Bob Edwards will be interviewing former Justice Department ethics attorney Jesselyn Radack about her new book, "The Canary in the Coalmine: Blowing the Whistle in the Case of 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh," the first victim of U.S. torture policy in the war on terrorism. The book is available at patriotictruthteller.net Ms. Radack will be speaking at the Shut Down Guantanamo event in D.C.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Public meeting on the eve of the 5th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Speakers include Aamer Anwar (Glasgow-based human rights lawyer)and Victoria Britain (co-author with former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg of the book Enemy Combatant).
Organised by Scotland Against Criminalising Communities and supported by the Muslim Association of Britain
More information www.sacc.org.uk
Amnesty Denmark’s activities have included showing ‘Close Guantánamo’ advertisements on Danish TV, arranging for a famous Danish singer to sing a poem written by a Guantánamo detainee, and sending thousands of letters to detainees in Guantánamo.
Speakers include Sen Andrew Bartlett and open mike.
Assemble at the US Consulate, Edinburgh 10.30am. A letter will be handed over at 11.00 am. Afterwards, a file of supporters will walk through Edinburgh to the Scottish Parliament to demand that MSP's press the British Government to take action over Guantanamo Bay and provide effective assistance to the British residents still held there. We will arrive in time for a meeting in the Scottish Parliament hosted by Tommy Sheridan MSP (Solidarity) from 12.30pm to 1.30pm.
The vigil is being organised by Scotland Against Criminalising Communities, Edinburgh Stop The War Coalition and Amnesty International.
More information at www.sacc.org.uk
Many of us will wear orange jumpsuits and hoods. We will each take on the name of one prisoner and stand for their rights.
For more information on this International Day of Action, www.witnesstorture.org. To order orange jumpsuits go to www.nationaltextile.us/
We say no to the occupation, no to war crimes !Yes to impeachment!
Thursday, January 11, 10:00am. Gather at Upper Senate Park (intersection of Delaware & Constitution Avenues, NE).
All are welcome to join the struggle for human rights on this fifth anniversary of the establishment of the illegal Guantanamo prison.
For more information, contact Pioneer Valley Coalition Against Secrecy and Torture, 584-1079 or martygjf@comcast.net.
We will gather at noon on January 11 on the State Street Steps of the Capitol in Madison, WI to show our support for shutting down Guantanamo Bay Prison. Please join us. This will be a dramatic action with participants wearing orange jumpsuits with a "prisoner" locked in a cage.
contact:Betsy Keenan 641- 785- 2321 (keenanweaving@yahoo.com)or
Veronica Ray 641 785 2325
Thurs., Jan. 11:
Noon-1 pm: Vigil at Federal Bldg.
7:30 pm: "The Road to Guantanamo" at Friends Center, 65 Ninth St., near Civic Center
Sat., Jan. 13:
1-3 pm: Participatory protest
As many that show up.
Please leave parking nearest the Common for any with difficulty walking. We hope studets, teachers, ministers, rabbis, elders and our friends in wheelchairs will join us. The weather forecast calls for sunny skies for Thursday. Without your intervention, the forecast for prisoners at Guantanamoo is not hopeful. From the Common you may want to use your cell phones to call all members of Congress, 202 224-3121.
Chester County Peace Movement (Pennsylvania/USA) members will wear orange jumpsuits and black hoods at the Chester County Courthouse, High & Market Sts., West Chester, PA, Jan. 11, 4:30-5:30. Contact: ccpeacemovement@aol.com, www.ccpeace.org, 610-344-0228.
TWIN CITIES
VIGIL AND MARCH
TO SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO
4:00 PM, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2007
MEET AT HENNEPIN COUNTY COURT HOUSE
3rd AVENUE AND 5TH STREET
DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS
On Thursday, January 11th, a candlelight vigil will take place from 5-6 PM at the Morris Civic Plaza at the corner of Colfax and Michigan in downtown South Bend to stand in opposition to Bush's call for more troops in Iraq and to demand an end to torture and the closing of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo.
A candlelight vigil will take place from 5-6 PM at the Morris Civic
Plaza at the corner of Colfax and Michigan in downtown South Bend demonstrating our opposition to an escalation of troops in Iraq, and to call for an end to torture and the closing of Guantanamo prison.
Vigil from 5pm to 6pm at Main Street & Pocasset, Fall River, MA (with MoveOn.org members). Across from Government Center.
Candles provided, or bring your own.
Thursday, January 11, 2007 Is the 5 year anniversary of the first prisoners being brought to Guantánamo when,
attempting to sidestep the Geneva Convention protections for prisoners of war, the administration created a new category of “enemy combatant” for these men captured in the “war on terror.”
Staten Island Will Not Be Silent
Members of SDS/MDS Staten Island are holding a protest at Borough Hall on January 11, 2007 from 6 - 8 pm. Bring banners and signs: We Will Not Be Silent, No More War, No More Lies, No More Torture. Wear Orange prison jumpsuits, if possible.
For more info, contact Peace Resource Center of San Diego, 619-263-9301 or info@prcsd.org; Also see calendar of events at www.prcsd.org/webcalendar
For more information contact Kay H. Smith at (205) 595-9231 or khogan@uab.edu.
On Thursday, January 11th, 4:30pm, concerned community citizens will gather at the corner of highway 101 and highway 20, in Newport to support the immediate shut down of Guantanamo and an end to the torture. The vigil, sponsored by CODEPINK,Women For Peace and part of the International Day To Shut Down Guantanamo will be followed by the award-winning docu-drama, "Road To Guantanamo". At 6:30pm,the movie
will be shown in the Newport Recreation Center meeting room at 225 SE Avery. Community members are encouraged to attend both events.
For more information call 563-2090
At 7 PM on January 11 there will be a vigil held to call for Guantanmo's closure. The The vigil will be held at the Federal Building at the corner of Main and Monroe.
contact: papn@peoriapeace.com for more information.