LIBERTAD A LOS PRISIONEROS POLITICOS DE GUATANAMO
HOPE some of you will join me today for an hour or more.......
STANDING WITH THE HUNGER STRIKERS
WHERE: University Ave. Footbridge, (just south of University Ave. over I-80 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Postcards will be available to write to the detainees....
Bring instruments (We'll bring our nyckelharpas), Bring food to share, Bring love!
Toby
(Details of more actions today for Guantanamo below)
GUANTANAMO: 100+ PRISONERS...100 DAYS OF HUNGER STRIKE.......
11 YEARS of INDEFINITE DETENTION: How many more will die? NO HOPE
Dear Friends, Today marks the 100th day of the Hunger Strike at Guantanamo.......some are near death.
A VERY TRAGIC DAY INDEED!
Won't
you please find time to break the silence and join one or more of the
many solidarity actions planned in the Bay Area this weekend? (See
below for details)
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 9:00-1:00pm GIANT BANNERS FOR HUNGER STRIKERS!
I am organizing a solidarity vigil and bannering on the University Ave. foot bridge, Berkeley.
(just south of University Ave over hwy 80).......In memory of Adnan......
Can you please be there with us for one (or more) of the hours during this important vigil?
CLOSE GUANTANAMO NOW! NOT ONE MORE DEATH!
While on the bridge, we will write postcards to the prisoners at Guantanamo.
Bring postcards to share. Bring large banners. Food and drink to share welcomed.
PLEASE rsvp: Toby: ratherbenyckeling@comcast.
And join CodePink and World Can't Wait for one or more of the other amazing actions planned this weekend. See below for details.
In Memory: Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif:
-
The last prisoner to die at Guantanamo
Adnan's Poem:
They are artists of torture,They are artists of pain and fatigue,They are artists of insults and humiliation.
Where is the world to save us from torture?
Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness?Where is the world to save the hunger strikers?
Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness?Where is the world to save the hunger strikers?
- Adnan Latif: Poems from Guantánamo*
Call Obama: 202-456-1111
Tell him to release the 86 detainees cleared of any wrong doing!
SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO NOW! STOP THE TORTURE
Forced-feeding is Torture!!!
SATURDAY MAY 18
Guantánamo Vigil & Speak-out
Downtown San Francisco
12 Noon to 3 PM
Stand Up for the Hunger Strikers!
SUNDAY MAY 19, 9:00 AM to 1:00 pm
FREEWAY BANNERING: GIANT BANNERS
Dress in Orange and Black, Some detainee jumpsuits will be available to wear.
To include Postcard writing to Hunger Strikers
CLOSE GUANTANAMO, 100 DAYS, 100 HUNGER STRIKERS
SUNDAY MAY 19, 2:00 PM
Discussion with Andy Worthington
(Skype from London)
Stop the Torture! Close Guantánamo!
at Revolution Books in Berkeley
2425 Channing Way
(510) 848-1196 for information
Support World Can't Wait's Full Page Ad in the NY Times:
SUNDAY MAY 19, 4PM-5PM, Press Conference, Old City Hall Steps, 2134 MLK Jr. Way
4pm-5pm Press Conference, Old City Hall Steps, 2134 MLK Jr. Way
- Invited Speakers: Codepink,
Berkeley No More Guantanamos, Berkeley City Council members, Berkeley
Peace and Justice Commission members, Amnesty International, National
Religious Campaign Against Torture, Bill of Rights Defense Committee,
Alliance for Justice, National Lawyers Guild, Meiklejohn Civil Liberties
Institute, ACLU, Boalt Human Rights Institute, Ecumenical Peace
Institute, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, World Can't
Wait, Andy Worthington, Democracy Now's Andres Thomas Conteris, KPFA's Kriss Welch
- “Cleared Guantanamo Detainees Fund Drive” Kick-Off, with Berkeley No More Guantanamos, Codepink Women for Peace. John Yoo expected to make $50,000 pledge and receive Codepink “Pink Badge of Courage”
- Fast in Solidarity with Gitmo Hunger Strikers
- Orange jumpsuited 'detainees' with feedling tubes will dramatize plight of hunger strikers.
The American Medical Association has condemned the force feeding of about 100 prisoners who have refused food in protest of their indefinite confinement. - Postcard writing and March 2 blocks to Berkeley Post Office to mail cards to fasting detainees, Obama & Yoo
UC
Law Professor and ‘architect of U.S. torture policy in the Bush
Administration John Yoo’ is expected to make a pledge to kick off the
"Berkeley No More Guantanamos" Cleared Guantanamo Detainees Fund Drive,presenting a big check for $50,000 to the group at a press conference this Sunday, May 19, 4pm, at Old City Hall in Berkeley, 2134 MLK Jr. Way. Yoo will be awarded a “Pink Badge of Courage” from Codepink Women for Peace for this unexpected but welcome humanitarian gesture.
A
2011 Berkeley City Council resolution welcoming one or two cleared
Guantanamo detainees to settle in Berkeley is moving a step forward on Sunday with the launching of the campaign to raise private funds for the detainees’ expenses. Pledges will be made and then collected when the cleared detainees are allowed by Congress to come to the U.S.
A
spokesman for John Yoo said that this gesture was done in the spirit of
the return of the “Age of Acquarius.” Yoo declared “I used to say that
the people protesting my legal opinions authorizing torture were
Birkenstock-wearing holdouts from the 60’s. I've come to realize that
hundreds of innocent men were renditioned, tortured and otherwise
treated inhumanely, and are being detained indefinitely because of my
legal advice to Cheney and Bush. While I still think we were right to
torture terrorists to establish an Al Qaeda-Sadam Hussein connection in
order to justify
the invasion of Iraq and protect the United States from future 9/11
attacks, knowing that many of the Guantanamo detainees are innocent
makes me want to help them to transition to freedom, in my own
community, as established by a Resolution of the Berkeley City Council
two years ago. This gift will help them come here and rebuild their
lives."
“UC
Berkeley law professor John Yoo, who authored legal opinions allowing
waterboarding and other inhumane and illegal treatment of detainees, was
asked to make a pledge to the Cleared Guantanamo Detainees Fund,
to help cover mental health services, housing, food, transportation and
other necessary expenses until the detainees can get on their feet. Yoo
lives in the Berkeley Hills, has several BMWs, we pay him over $280,000
a year to teach at our public University and he gets enormous speaking
fees at Tea Party, Young Republican, American Enterprise Institute and
Federalist Society events. He can well afford to contribute, especially
in light of his role in the detainees’ suffering. Some of the 86 cleared
and 100 fasting detainees have been tortured, they’ve all been
mistreated. Yoo’s pledge of $50,000 is not only a fitting humanitarian
gesture, but it’s totally amazing!” says Cynthia Papermaster of
“Berkeley No More Guantanamos.” Jay Winks, a member of the Golden Gate Chapter of Codepink added “Codepink
is thrilled that John Yoo has found it in his heart to pledge generous
monetary support for these men, some of whom are near death by
starvation. Yoo will receive a “Pink Badge of Courage” as a token of gratitude from the Berkeley community.”
A possible detainee for settlement in Berkeley is Shaker Amer, the last remaining British citizen at Guantanamo. Cleared by the Bush Administration in 2007 for release, Amer, who is not a terrorist and not even anti-American, has been imprisoned for 11 years but has never been charged with a crime. He says he has little hope of ever seeing his wife and children again. He has written that he is frequently beaten, isolated, and taunted with food while on hunger strike. Having lost over 30 pounds and so weak he can barely walk, he is being strapped down and painfully force fed.
A possible detainee for settlement in Berkeley is Shaker Amer, the last remaining British citizen at Guantanamo. Cleared by the Bush Administration in 2007 for release, Amer, who is not a terrorist and not even anti-American, has been imprisoned for 11 years but has never been charged with a crime. He says he has little hope of ever seeing his wife and children again. He has written that he is frequently beaten, isolated, and taunted with food while on hunger strike. Having lost over 30 pounds and so weak he can barely walk, he is being strapped down and painfully force fed.
COME OUT ON SUNDAY
TO JOIN THE CALL FOR RELEASE OF FASTING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES! Banner on
the Overpass, Sign Up to FAST IN SOLIDARITY, Write to a Detainee &
to President Obama, THANK JOHN YOO for Pledging to the “Cleared
Guantanamo Detainees Fund” and please make a pledge yourself! Our fund
raising goal is $100,000 in pledges this year; we’re half way there with
Yoo's pledge!
Contact: Berkeley No More Guantanamos and Codepink Golden Gate,cynthia_papermaster@
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