Handing over the keys to Guantanamo


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Chris,

8 days from now Guantanamo Bay Prison will enter year 16 of its torturous existence. 15 years of illegal and immoral detention and torture. 15 years of inflicting an open threat of preemptive incarceration without trial.

59 men still remain in this darkness despite Obama's 2008 promise to close Guantanamo within a year. For many they have endured the unimaginable-locked away without trial, without a charge against them.


In 2007, we said "5 years too long." Who expected Guantanamo to go on for 15 years?

Obama is now preparing to hand this power and this prison to Trump, a man who has said, in reference to Guantanamo, "We are keeping open. Which we are keeping open ... and we're gonna load it up with some bad dudes, believe me, we're gonna load it up." and that if President he would “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”

Our decisive, visible, and vocal action is urgently needed. To the men who still remain, to their families, to the global community and to future generations our silence and inaction equals complicity. We cannot be complicit with a Guantanamo that remains open indefinitely or to the prospect of it taking in new detainees as part of an endless global war in which the entire world is a battlefield.

The closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp can’t wait. The abomination of U.S. torture must not only end; the rationale of “exceptionalism” — that American lives are worth more than others — must be repudiated.

JOIN World Can't Wait, Witness Against Torture, Amnesty International, Center for Constitutional Rights, National Religious Coalition Against Torture, and many other coalition groups:

Washington D.C. 15th Anniversary of US torture camp for Muslims at Guantanamo Bay

Close it Now! Rally and March to Close Guantanamo and End Islamophobia

Wednesday January 11 Rally:

No More Guantanamo. No Torture Presidency. No Indefinite Detention

Location: White House Ellipse
12 noon: Music
12:30: Rally
1:30: March to Department of Justice


BRING DC TO A HALT! MILLIONS IN THE STREET SAY NO!
DON’T STOP!

Starting before the Inauguration, flood the streets of Washington, DC with millions of people, determined to stay on the streets to stop the Trump-Pence regime before it starts.

This starts January 14, the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, and DOES NOT STOP till this regime is prevented from ruling. This is the kind of political crisis needed at this moment in history. It has happened before, and it can happen again.

Clear your calendar to “get on the bus” to DC, and be part of making history.


What Can I Do to Prepare and Organize for This?

You are needed to make this happen.

Come to DC now, as soon as possible, and volunteer with the core group of refusefascism.org that will be reaching out, organizing, and preparing. There is nothing more important than being there now, building the political beachhead for what we’re working to make a flood of millions going into the week before the Inauguration. By our actions and organizing, by going everywhere, we can inspire, awaken and draw forward the reservoirs of people in anguish over the horrific future represented by the Trump-Pence regime. Call the National Office of RefuseFascism.org at (917) 407-1286 or email [email protected] to hook up.


What If I Can’t Come to DC Now?

If you can’t join us in DC now, organize your family; your friends; your church, synagogue and mosque; your union, community organization and school to come to DC starting January 14 and going into the Inauguration. We have a starter kit for this. Call us if you have questions or run into obstacles.


Recommended Reading:

“We’re Not Opposing Donald Trump With The Unified Fierceness He Deserves”
Shaun King writes in The New York Daily News:

A man who some believe to be a pretty terrible human being is scheduled to become our next President in less than three weeks. I won’t make yet another rundown of all of the awful things he has said and done. I’ve done that a dozen times. Pretty much every reputable news outlet in the country has covered Trump’s lies, deceit, failed commitments, his unethical business dealings, and his personal admissions on mistreating and sexually assaulting women.

We knew he was a bad man before he was elected. Since he’s been elected, his character continues to fail us as a nation.
Continue reading...




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Sights and sounds from protests around the country against Trump & Pence collected by revcom.us.


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