Wednesday, August 17, 2011

BIG concerns about US misuse of Authority

How easy to see why so many worldwide interpret US policies and actions as a kind of Crusade against certain peoples...

GO here

Amnesty International USA's Security with Human Rights campaign aims to gather, and then deliver to President Obama, 100,000 signatures either in on line response or upon paper airplane petitions by May 1, 2012, with the goal of prompting him to apologize to Maher Arar during whatever remarks he delivers to commemorate the United Nations' International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, observed annually on June 26.When the struggle to promote, protect and defend human rights seems overwhelming, try to remember the courage of Mr. Arar and the other victims and survivors of torture and their families.

There are links to the action via the North Carolina Stop Torture Now - NCSTN Web site: GO here

or, more directly: GO here

CUT PASTE for your friends:
http://www.ncstoptorturenow.org/action.html#apologize
or, more directly: http://tinyurl.com/Apologize2Arar

ALSO VISIT Bill of Rights Defense Committee bordc@mail.democracyinaction.org

Find all these below at bordc.org or GO here

1 comment:

CN said...

CN said...

Find these as well on nomoregitmos.org/news

08/16 / Daniel Morgan / Newsweek / The Hard Cell

08/16 / Jennifer Fenton / CNN / Ten years on, Kuwaiti inmates fear indefinite Guantanamo detention

08/15 / Paula Whyman / The Rumpus / Interview with Dave Engelhardt, Pro Bono Lawyer for Guantanamo Detainees

08/15 / Andy Worthington / WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Eight of Ten)

More news at http://www.nogitmos.org/news