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January 11, Protests to Close Guantanamo NOW!
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The Bush regime set up a detention camp on Guantanamo in January 2002, designed deliberately to be out of reach of U.S. and international laws, as part of its “war on terror." 779 Muslim men were detained, almost all held for years with no charges. Nine died there; 735 have been released without apology or reparations. 21 of the remaining have been “cleared” for release, many of those when Obama was president. Three of the remaining are called “forever” prisoners whom the government will never charge nor release because to do so would reveal the torture methods the government developed on them. Very few were ever found guilty of a crime and none received legal due process.
The open violations of human and legal rights of those detained — secret “renditions,” torture by third country allies, “enhanced interrogation," via the CIA — shocked the world. And yet, the U.S. has upgraded Guantanamo.
Download: Poster and GITMO-Clock
We gather on the 21st anniversary of this torture camp to say:
No Shortage of Party Cowards; We Need Heroes In the Streets
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"Not everybody was enamored with the show of solidarity between Trump and Newsom " while the Camp Fire raged, posted Andrew Sheeler to thetribunenews.com. Last weeks' photo session in Paradise, California was nothing short of shameful in terms of missed opportunity to challenge the Climate-Change-Denier-in-Chief face to face. "In the bitter reality of the fires, what you saw from [governor-elect] Newsom and [Governor] Brown is the claim that a little cash and aid from the Feds is reason to unite with Trump and the implication that in this there is some totally illusory victory for the people," concluded Refuse Fascism organizer Barry Thornton. "We need to step outside the framework of normal politics and build a mass movement of millions to drive out the regime."
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