1-18-13 March & Speak Out for An END to the US "War on Terror" |
By Debra Sweet While we walked from the Supreme Court, past the US District Court, the FBI, and to the White House last Friday to protest eleven years of illegitimate imprisonment at Guantanamo, Hamid Karzai was meeting inside with Barack Obama. As my friend Anna, who lives in Kabul, said while walking beside me, "Karzai has his list of requirements to stay on the job." “this west African nation of 15 million people is the eighth country in which western powers - over the last four years alone - have bombed and killed Muslims - after Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and the Philippines.” Join us Monday to protest drone warfare at the Inauguration in DC! Monday, World Can't Wait will be marching in the "Arc of Justice" parade before the Inaugural Parade begins. Can you begin to imagine the contrast between the Commander-in-Chief of the largest, strongest, military in world history, leading an ongoing "war on terror" against at least eight countries, and our message that "humanity and the planet come first? Reports on Protests Against the Eleventh Anniversary of GuantanamoThanks to everyone across the U.S. and the world — including prisoners in Guantanamo — who marked the anniversary of the illegal prison with protest. We are having essential debate in our ranks over how to go forward in the face of every legal door being closed to justice for the GTMO and Bagram prisoners, and for all those tortured and subject to indefinite detention in places we can't even locate. Should we campaign mainly for those already cleared for release, back to the Bush years? Or reject the arbitrary distinctions the government has made among prisoners, for whom in the greatest part there is no evidence of actions against the U.S.? Stay tuned for this debate, and check out the important action reports. Listen to my interview recorded live from the protest.
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