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Some Reports from Cuba
first is a report from Friday night
Friday, 7pm - After camping out last night, today the marchers continued their trek
through the Santiago de Cuba Province -- the second most populated province in the
island of Cuba. Tonight they are staying in a hotel in Niceto Pérez. Tomorrow,
International Human Rights Day, the marchers plan to arrive in the city of
Guantánamo, about 12 miles from the detention centers. They plan to hold a press
conference at a soon to be determined time and location. Press - and only press
please - can arrange interviews, find more information, etc. by emailing
press(at)witnesstorture.org. Print quality photos are now available on this site,
and more are soon to follow. Journalists are free to run them with their stories.
Visit the photo gallery, click on the photo you want, and then, if you need a print
quality version, click "view original" under the photo.
Tomorrow (Saturday, December 10) is International Human Rights Day. People are
planning vigils across the United States and around the world to support human
rights and the Geneva Conventions and to end torture and illegal detentions.
through the Santiago de Cuba Province -- the second most populated province in the
island of Cuba. Tonight they are staying in a hotel in Niceto Pérez. Tomorrow,
International Human Rights Day, the marchers plan to arrive in the city of
Guantánamo, about 12 miles from the detention centers. They plan to hold a press
conference at a soon to be determined time and location. Press - and only press
please - can arrange interviews, find more information, etc. by emailing
press(at)witnesstorture.org. Print quality photos are now available on this site,
and more are soon to follow. Journalists are free to run them with their stories.
Visit the photo gallery, click on the photo you want, and then, if you need a print
quality version, click "view original" under the photo.
Tomorrow (Saturday, December 10) is International Human Rights Day. People are
planning vigils across the United States and around the world to support human
rights and the Geneva Conventions and to end torture and illegal detentions.
For more information:
http://www.witnesstorture.org/
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A line from a Gipsy King song has been going through my head for the past few days
as we have walked through the Cuban countryside. "Estoy caminando a la montanya
donde naci." it is such a rousing song to walk with, and i wish i knew the rest of
the words. But, I am not walking to the mountains where i was born. the landscape is
rolling hills and sugar cane fields- not mountains. And every time I try and speak
with someone I know I was not born here. But as i walk, each step bringing us
closer to the prisoners, closer to Guantanamo base, closer the modern heart of
darkness, i feel hope being born inside of me. Hope for what people with faith,
courage and community can accomplish. Hope for what humanity can be if violence and
retribution are spurned.
We are in the third day of our walk and feeling strong. Each step of what we are
doing is brand new. People do not do what we are doing here, people do not walk
when they can ride, they do not camp except for in necessity... They certainly do
not visit the prisoners at Guantanamo and perform the works of mercy. And yet that
is what we are doing, that is the road we are walking.
In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Vice President Dick Cheney said that in
its response to 9/11, the government would need to "work through, sort of, the
dark side."
He continues: "We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A
lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any
discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence
agencies, if we're going to be successful. That's the world these folks operate
in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal,
basically, to achieve our objective."
That dark side is the torture, the disappearances, the secret prisons, the holding
incommunicado, the abrogation of U.S. and international law. We are walking to
shine a light on that darkness.
as we have walked through the Cuban countryside. "Estoy caminando a la montanya
donde naci." it is such a rousing song to walk with, and i wish i knew the rest of
the words. But, I am not walking to the mountains where i was born. the landscape is
rolling hills and sugar cane fields- not mountains. And every time I try and speak
with someone I know I was not born here. But as i walk, each step bringing us
closer to the prisoners, closer to Guantanamo base, closer the modern heart of
darkness, i feel hope being born inside of me. Hope for what people with faith,
courage and community can accomplish. Hope for what humanity can be if violence and
retribution are spurned.
We are in the third day of our walk and feeling strong. Each step of what we are
doing is brand new. People do not do what we are doing here, people do not walk
when they can ride, they do not camp except for in necessity... They certainly do
not visit the prisoners at Guantanamo and perform the works of mercy. And yet that
is what we are doing, that is the road we are walking.
In an interview on NBC's Meet the Press, Vice President Dick Cheney said that in
its response to 9/11, the government would need to "work through, sort of, the
dark side."
He continues: "We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A
lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any
discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence
agencies, if we're going to be successful. That's the world these folks operate
in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal,
basically, to achieve our objective."
That dark side is the torture, the disappearances, the secret prisons, the holding
incommunicado, the abrogation of U.S. and international law. We are walking to
shine a light on that darkness.
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