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Category: Speeches & Public Statements
1-28-11 Discussion with Bassiouni and Gorman
By Debra Sweet On Tuesday January 25, at the same moment Congress gathered for the State of the Union address from Barack Obama, almost a hundred people gathered to discuss “Torture, Guantanamo and…
1-26-11 Guantanamo Event in Berkeley with our advisor, Candace Gorman
Activists and former prisoner call for Obama to close Guantánamo By Asaf Shalev From San Francisco Bay Guardian Online | Original Article The second anniversary of President Obama’s promise to close the…
1-25-11 We Will Oppose Obama As Long As He Supports War
From WarIsACrime.org | Original Article ADD YOUR NAME We the undersigned share with nearly two-thirds of our fellow Americans the conviction that our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq should be ended and…
1-12-11 A Statement from Former Prisoner Omar Deghayes on the 9th Anniversary of the Opening of Guantánamo
From Andy Worthington | Original Article I’m delighted to reproduce below a statement by my friend, the former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, which was read out at a rally (at which I…
12-16-10 Columbia j-school staff: WikiLeaks prosecution ‘will set a dangerous precedent’
By Jim Romenesko From Poynter | Original Article Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism faculty and officers tell President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder that “while we hold varying opinions of…
12-14-10 Hands off Wikileaks! Prosecute War Crimes, Not Those Who Leak Them
Statement by World Can’t Wait From World Can’t Wait | Original Article Wikileaks Published Nothing But the Truth About Your Government “The truth is in your hands now.” -Julian Assange, Founder of…
12-10-10 An Open Letter to the Left Establishment
From ProtestObama.org | Original Article This letter is a call for active support of protest to Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Katrina van den Heuvel, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, Tom Hayden,…
12-7-10 Ellsberg: “EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.”
From Daniel Ellsberg’s Website | Original Article Ex-Intelligence Officers, Others See Plusses in WikiLeaks Disclosures WASHINGTON – December 7 – The following statement was released today, signed by Daniel Ellsberg, Frank Grevil,…
12-2-10 War.Wikileaks.Protest: Why New Evidence Demands End to Wars
With Wikileaks Revelations, Peace Community Redoubles Demand for End to Wars and Voices Support for Whistleblowers While only a tiny fraction of the U.S. diplomatic cables scheduled for publication by Wikileaks have…
12-3-10 Please Sign Petition Asking Eric Holder to Release Fayiz Al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantánamo
From Andy Worthington | Original Article Sign the petition here! Regular readers will know that I have been writing about the incompehensible ongoing detention of Fayiz al-Kandari, one of the last two…
11-16-10 Close Guantánamo with Justice Now!
From Center for Constitutional Rights Shortly after taking office President Obama signed an executive order promising to close Guantánamo within a year. Not only has he broken his promise by indefinitely delaying…
11-10-10 United Response to George W. Bush Memoir
With the publication of George Bush’s book, Decision Points, we, the undersigned, set the record straight. Instead of being rewarded with a lucrative book contract and treated by the media as a…
10-28-10 Traumatized Troop Seeks Help, NCO Tells Him: “Get the sand out of your vagina!”
By Libby Liberal From Corrente | Original Article It’s been a week since I heard Ethan McCord, Iraq soldier whistleblower, speak at a World Can’t Wait event on the lower west side…
10-19-10 Video: “The Giant John Yoo Debate” at “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week
By Andy Worthington From Andy Worthington | Original Article Just up on YouTube (and posted below) are three edits of “The Giant John Yoo Debate,” which took place last Tuesday as part…