From Fire John Yoo! | Original Article The misappropriation of “free speech” precepts at Kepler’s Books to promote a braggart of torture is more than just sad; it raises questions of whose interests…
Category: Reports of Demonstrations
1-14-14 New Yorkers Protest Bush
Photos: Bud Korotzer On the morning of Mon., January 13th, about 25 people gathered outside NYC’s Javits Center to protest the presence inside of former George Bush who was giving the breakfast…
1-14-14 “Miami Protest to Close Guantanamo Bay” marched in Doral on Saturday
By Julia Duba From WGCU | Original Article Credit futureatlas.com via Flickr Listen 0:45 75 protestors gathered outside the U.S. Southern Command over the weekend for the event “Miami Protest to Close…
1-13-14 Voices from around the world calling for Guantanamo to be closed
By Debra Sweet There are two pertinent questions which demand answers if we are to force the U.S. to close the illegal torture camp at Guantánamo, and go on to end indefinite…
1-11-14 Activists Occupy National Museum of American History — Install Torture Exhibit to Mark Guantánamo Anniversary
By Witness Against Torture Vowing to “Make Guantanamo History,” human rights advocates from around the country marked the beginning of the thirteenth year of torture and indefinite detention at the prison camp with…
12-8-13 Confronting Petraeus’ War Party
By Debra Sweet On Monday night, Dec. 2nd, 75 or more of us gathered outside the Pierre Hotel to protest an award to General David Petraeus from the New York HIstorical Society. …
11-24-13 Anti-Cheney rally in Miami
An anti-Cheney rally was held at the Miami Beach Book Fair on Nov.23, 2013. Support came from PDA, POWIR and other local groups. Despite the police moving the activists across the street,…
11-23-13 Stanford Says NO To War: The Bigger Picture Emerges @ The Big Game
Kudos to the students of Stanford Says No To War, for insisting on the utter relevance of torture and war crimes to today’s Big Game festivities (the annual Stanford/UC Berkeley football confrontation)! …
11-1-13 Two Articles on Cheney in Toronto Amid Protest
Obama’s Keystone XL policy ‘totally foolish,’ Cheney says By Tanya Talaga From The Star | Original Article Tanya Talaga / Toronto resident James Campbell demonstrates against former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney,…
10-30-13 Cheney Unwelcome in Toronto!
Canada’s War Crimes Section Reviews Lawyers’ Call to Prosecute Cheney for Torture While Activists Protest When Cheney Speaks @ Toronto Global Forum on Halloween (Toronto) Torture and war crimes suspect Dick Cheney…
10-22-13 Activists Visit Canadian Consulates & Embassy Asking for Barring of Cheney
Activists in San Francisco, New York City and Miami paid visits to the Canadian Consulates to hand-deliver a letter from lawyers requesting Canadian officials to fulfill their legal obligations and either bar…
10-1-13 Torture Opponents Say Ban Dick Cheney from Canada or Arrest and Prosecute Him
By War Criminals Watch Toronto) Torture suspect and former U.S. Vice President Richard (Dick) Cheney is scheduled to speak at the Toronto Global Forum, October 31, 2013, at the Metro Toronto Convention…
9-30-13 Memo: CUNY is Moving David Petraeus Seminar to Avoid Protestors
By J.K Trotter From Gawker | Original Article The City University of New York has relocated David Petraeus’s fall seminar, titled “Are We on the Threshold of the North American Decade?”, to a…
9-26-13 Petraeus Running Scared: Veterans Drive the General Out of LA
By Mike Prysner From March Forward! | Original Article University cancels event day after protest announced The University of Southern California Veterans’ Association recently announced in an internal email that General David Petraeus,…
9-21-13 Violent Arrest of Students by NYPD Outside Petraeus CUNY Fundraiser
Petraeus was the main keynoter at a gala fundraiser at CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College on Tuesday evening, September 17th. The other keynote speaker was Fareed Zakaria, a foreign policy adviser to Obama…