By Andy Worthington, Read the original post on closeguantanamo.org For the last 19 months, dedicated campaigners across the U.S. and around the world have been taking part, on the first Wednesday of…
Category: Reports on Protest & Resistance
Photos and Report: The Ten Coordinated Global Monthly Vigils for the Closure of Guantánamo on August 7, 2024
Read the original post by Andy Worthington On Wednesday (August 7) campaigners for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay marked 18 months of monthly coordinated global vigils for the prison’s…
Update on Closing Guantanamo
Global Vigils to Close Guantanamo NOW in 10 cities June 5 Since last month’s vigils, we’ve learned, via four Biden administration officials who spoke anonymously to NBC News, that eleven of the…
YES ― Institutions Splitting Over Genocide
Institutions need to, and are, splitting apart over U.S. support of Israel’s war on Gaza and the occupied territories of Palestine as we see more examples of individuals working in them stepping…
Never again is NOW
A note from Stephanie Rugoff: I am a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), a branch of the State University of New York (SUNY) located in Manhattan in NYC. I have also,…
NYC Close Guantanamo Now Vigil
Sharing with you a photo from our NYC vigil, part of the global vigils taking place the first Wednesday of each month, on May Day in front of the main public library…
Report on Wednesday May 1: Global Vigils to Close Guantanamo Now
In London, Mexico City, Washington DC, NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Minneapolis We continue to highlight the 16 men still held in Guantanamo even though they have been “cleared” for release…
Columbia/Gaza
Thursday, we saw the most significant arrests of student protesters since 1968. Columbia University, whose president testified in Congress Monday, promising to crack down on pro-Palestinian voices, called in the NYC police to…
Photos and Report: The Global Vigils for the Closure of Guantánamo on the 22nd Anniversary of the Prison’s Opening
Click here to read the orginal post on andyworthington.co.uk. Campaigners in Washington, D.C., including representatives of Amnesty International, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT), Witness Against Torture and Dorothy Day Catholic…
December 28 Actions For Palestine
From Jewish Elders: Thousands of New Yorkers marched silently through the streets of Manhattan. The procession was led and organized by Jewish Elders. The marchers carried hundreds of effigies of children wrapped…