Call to Action
What You Can Do Now
- Find a local World Can’t Wait chapter
- Volunteer for World Can’t Wait
- Bring the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour to your school
- Join the campaign to Fire John Yoo
- Protest the war criminals when they come to your community; join War Criminals Watch
- Sustain World Can’t Wait, and support this movement
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Justice for the 20 men already cleared for release from Guantanamo
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Washington DC protest Wednesday February 15: Support the Men in Guantanamo Who Have Been Cleared for Release
12:00 noon - New Jersey Avenue & Independence Ave SE across from Longworth & Cannon House buildings
This action will take place at about the same time as a vigil in London, in front of Parliament House in London. Organizer Steve Lane says "We will have signs, but if you can bring your own orange jumpsuit it would be helpful."
January 11, Protests to Close Guantanamo NOW!
- Category: Call to Action
The Bush regime set up a detention camp on Guantanamo in January 2002, designed deliberately to be out of reach of U.S. and international laws, as part of its “war on terror." 779 Muslim men were detained, almost all held for years with no charges. Nine died there; 735 have been released without apology or reparations. 21 of the remaining have been “cleared” for release, many of those when Obama was president. Three of the remaining are called “forever” prisoners whom the government will never charge nor release because to do so would reveal the torture methods the government developed on them. Very few were ever found guilty of a crime and none received legal due process.
The open violations of human and legal rights of those detained — secret “renditions,” torture by third country allies, “enhanced interrogation," via the CIA — shocked the world. And yet, the U.S. has upgraded Guantanamo.
Download: Poster and GITMO-Clock
We gather on the 21st anniversary of this torture camp to say:
Calls to Action