This report is from North Carolina Stop Torture Now:
We had 50 people, ranging widely in age, on the bio-diesel bus from North Carolina to the Close Gitmo protest in DC yesterday. A handful of other North Carolinians drove up.
While rainy, the protest was spirited, colorful, and very moving. A lot of local, national and international media attended.
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The “NC Stop Torture Now” banner and the “Who Would Jesus Torture?” banner were widely filmed & photographed.
Here's a youtube video: Just under three minutes, and North Carolina folks are in it: CLICK here
Participating people and groups Part I:
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Broad Coalition Opposes NDAA and Calls on President Obama to Keep His Promise and Shut Guantanamo Bay Now --- Groups will mark 10th anniversary of first detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay with rally, human chain starting at White House; military, legal, religious and 9/11 families among speakers’ list
(Washington, D.C.) – A broad coalition of human rights groups and other like-minded organizations: Speakers at the rally include Colonel Morris Davis, executive director of the Crimes of War Education Project, who previously served as the chief prosecutor for the office of military commissions at Guantánamo Bay; Talat Hamdani, mother of Salman Hamdani, an emergency medical technician who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks while helping people at the Twin Towers in New York City and Ramzi Kassem, an attorney who represents Guantanamo and Bagram detainees and supervises the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project at CUNY School of Law.
Prior to the rally and demonstration, there (was scheduled) a press briefing from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the National Press Club (First Amendment room), with Rear Admiral John Hutson, an early critic of the military commission system and the treatment of detainees as one of the featured speakers.
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Participating groups Part II:
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Amnesty International USA, Center for Constitutional Rights, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Witness Against Torture, 8th Day Center for Justice, Appeal for Justice, Arab American Association of New York, Backbone Campaign, Baltimore-Washington Area Peace Council, Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Bradley Manning Support Network, Casa Esperanza, Catholic Worker, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban 5, Code Pink, Comision Mexicana de Defensa Y Promocion de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH), Comite de Accion Juridica (CAJ, Argentina), Council on American-Islamic Relations, Courage to Resist, Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), High Road for Human Rights, Human Rights USA, International Justice Network, Islamic Circle of North America-Council for Social Justice, International Federation for Human Rights, Just Foreign Policy, Latin America Solidarity Coalition, Liberty Coalition, Limeddh, Midwest Anti War Mobilization, Muslim Justice Initiative (MJI), Muslim Peace Coalition, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms,Natural Solutions Foundation, No More Guantánamos, North Carolina Stop Torture Now Coalition, NYU Center for Health and Human Rights, Occupy DC, Pakistan Solidarity Network, Pax Christi USA, Peace & Justice Center,Physicians for Human Rights, Project Salaam, Quaker Initiative to End Torture, Rabbis for Human Rights-North America, Refuge Media Project, School of the Americas Watch, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, South Asian Americans Leading Together, Texans for Peace, The Rutherford Institute, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, United National Antiwar Coalition, United Nations Association-USA East Bay Chapter, U.S. Peace Council, Veterans for Peace, Veterans for Peace, NY Chapter 34, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, War Criminals Watch, War Resisters League, WarIsACrime.org and World Can’t Wait.
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