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Witness Against Torture Applauds Decision on Guantanamo Detainees
October 7, 2008 - In a courtroom packed with anti-torture activists and members of the Uighur community, U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina struck a landmark blow against the Bush administration and its policy of indefinite detention at Guantanamo in Washington, DC today.
100 DAYS TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO!
Witness Against Torture is excited to announce a new campaign to close Guantánamo and end torture by the U.S. Kicking off with a nine day fast, the campaign will consist of a daily, sustained, physical presence across from the White House and a weekly schedule of Executive and Congressional education, public teach-ins and film screenings, prayer and vigiling, direct action and public pressure throughout the first 100 days of the new administration.
Our Prisoner of Guantanamo
From the Syracuse New Times, September 10, 2008
You better watch what you wear at the New York State Fair. Those obscene T-shirts and skimpy shorts may be fine, but don’t you dare show up in a hood and a jumpsuit reminiscent of the prison garb from Guantanamo Bay. Syracuse activist Ed Kinane spent a week as a prisoner in the Justice Center in downtown Syracuse. He was accused of criminal trespass after silently demonstrating at the New York State Fair by walking around dressed in an orange jumpsuit designed to mimic those worn by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the prison he has for years campaigned to close.
Pittsburgh Against Torture Vigil
Members of Pittsburgh Against Torture march silently through Downtown Pittsburgh as part of the United Nation's International Day of support of torture victims.
Supreme Court: A Victory for Justice, A Call to Further Action
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS THE RIGHTS OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
A VICTORY FOR JUSTICE – A CALL TO FURTHER ACTION
Press Release: June 13, 2008
With yesterday’s Supreme Court’s decision, there is now an unequivocal mandate from the highest judicial body in the United Sates to close the detention center at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and bring cases of the detainees into the Federal Justice system.
Ellen Davidson: Jumpsuit Justice Has To Go
From the June 6, 2008 issue of the IndyPendent
http://www.indypendent.org/2008/06/06/jumpsuit-justice/
On May 29, Washington, D.C., Superior Court Judge Wendell Gardner found me and 33 codefendants guilty of “parading, standing, or moving in a procession or assemblage in the Supreme Court Building” and displaying a “device designed or adapted to bring into public notice a party, organization, or movement.” For most of us, the “crime” consisted of either kneeling on the Supreme Court steps in orange jumpsuits and black hoods or kneeling inside in orange t-shirts that said “Shut Down Guantánamo.”