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Ten Years of Guantanamo: We Say NO MORE!

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Date:
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Time:
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Event Type:
Vigil/Ritual
Organizer/Author:
Cynthia Papermaster
Location Details:
Federal Building, 7th St., between Market and Mission, San Francisco

January 11 Day of Action Against Guantanamo, in solidarity with giant action in D.C. Rally with speakers from Amnesty International and other sponsoring groups, the great David Rovics will perform, 171 people dressed in orange will assemble in a "human chain" in front of the Federal Bldg. and 9th Circuit Court to read the names of the remaining Guantanamo detainees and kneel in witness to their suffering. Please join us to call for the closure of Guantanamo and Bagram Prisons, and to protest the NDAA detention provisions making it legal for our government to detain any U.S. citizen indefinitely without charge or trial. PLEASE SIGN UP TO BE PART OF THE HUMAN CHAIN at link below. Contact: endgitmo@gmail.com Co-sponsors include: Amnesty International, CODEPINK Women for Peace, Witness Against Torture, World Can't Wait, Physicians for Human Rights, Center for Constitutional Rights, Bay Area Religious Campaign Against Torture, Veterans for Peace, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club. warisacrime.org, BFUU, PDASF, War Resisters' League- West, Marin Task Force on the Americas, many others.
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