Category: Reports of Demonstrations
11-3-10 Reflection On & Summing Up of Berkeley Says No to Torture Week
By Stephanie Tang and Curt Wechsler, San Francisco Bay Area World Can’t Wait “Berkeley Says No To Torture” Week was one of those special moments people will remember for a long time to…
10-28-10 Ohio University students speak out against John Yoo appearance
By Curt Wechsler From Fire John Yoo | Original Article About 15 protesters wearing black bags over their heads sat silently through professor John Yoo’s lecture forum yesterday at Baker Center Theater….
10-25-10 Protesting Drone Warfare at a Drone Maker’s Home
By Debra Sweet Saturday, World Can’t Wait joined a protest against drone warfare. Activists made a predator drone with an 8 foot wingspan, symbolizing those the US uses, at a cost of…
10-18-10 Citizens’ Attempted Arrest of Condoleeza Rice
On October 18, 2010, when former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke about her childhood and new book at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, she was confronted by five Bay Area…
10-2-10 Stone-Walled by Obama Justice Department
From Witness Against Torture | Original Article Anti-Torture Activists are Denied a Promised Meeting, Picket OfficeCommit to Future Actions, Including Twelve Day Vigil and Fast in January 2011 WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Shut Down Guantanamo,…
9-13-10 In Our Name
By Jason Whited From Las Vegas City Life | Original Article Anti-war activists, Muslims gather to remember 9/11 and lament its consequences Anti-war activists and American Muslims from Washington, D.C., to West…
8-16-10 First New York City Support Rally for Bradley Manning
By Debra Sweet About 80 people converged on Times Square Monday August 16 to demand that the US military drop charges against Army private Bradley Manning who is jailed in Quantico, VA. …
8-16-10 Protest draws dozens at UC Berkeley for John Yoo’s first day of classes
By Sean Maher From MercuryNews.com I Original Article BERKELEY — Protesters gathered at the opening of classes Monday to protest the school’s continued employment of John Yoo, a UC Berkeley professor who…
8-2-10 End the Torture State – Silence is Complicity!
Sunday, August 1st, was the 8th anniversary of the writing of the torture memos by John Yoo and Jay Bybee. Cheers to Coleen Rowley, the former FBI official, for protesting in Minneapolis,…
7-22-10 Bush administration torture memo writer Yoo protested at Sacramento appearance
By Gina Kim From The Modesto Bee | Original Article John Yoo didn’t set out to become the face of torture. But that’s what happened after the former attorney in the George…
6-28-10 Sad clouds hang over St. Thomas Law graduation
By Roger Cuthbertson and Coleen Rowley From Twin Cities Daily Planet | Original Article Clouds hung over the St. Thomas School of Law graduation on May 8, 2010, in more ways…
6-15-10 24 Activists Acquited in Trial for Protest at US Capitol
By Witness Against Torture WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness AgainstTorture were acquitted in Washington, D.C. Superior Court of charges of “unlawfulentry with disorderly conduct.” The charges…
6-11-10 Trial for 27 Anti-Torture Activists Who Protested Obama’s Failure to Close GITMO Begins Monday, June 14
By Witness Against Torture WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, June 14 twenty-seven will face trialstemming from arrests at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2010 — thedate by which President Obama had…