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Date: Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:26 PM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Fw: TEN Years of Guantanamo? Hell No
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--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Debra Sweet, World Can't Wait <debrasweet@worldcantwait.org> wrote:


 
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Dear Romi,

Protest Guantanamo Events January 2011

Tuesday January 11, 10.30 am: 11-day Vigil and Fast for the Closure of Guantanamo begins outside The White House.  On the 9th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, anti-torture activists Witness Against Torture launch a Daily Vigil and Fast for Justice that will continue for 11 days and includes demonstrations throughout Washington D.C. The event on January 11 begins with a rally of a coalition of human rights and grassroots groups and individuals, including the Center for Constitutional Rights, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, The World Can't Wait.

   Sunday January 9, 4 pm: World Can't Wait open house to celebrate the New Year, new office, and to welcome Andy Worthington.  Contact World Can't Wait by email or 866-973-4463.

   Monday January 10, 7 pm: "War Is A Lie" book talk by David Swanson, with Andy Worthington. Cindy Sheehan, Debra Sweet.
Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins Bookstore, 3330 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, MD 
War Is A Crime.

   Tuesday January 11, 3.30-5 pm: Panel discussion — "Nine Years of Guantánamo: What Now?" with Andy Worthington, Tom Wilner, Morris Davis and Benjamin Wittes.  New America Foundation, 1899 L Street, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, D.C.

   Wednesday January 12, 12-1.30 pm: Panel discussion on the future of Guantánamo and accountabiity for torture with Andy Worthington, Juan Méndez and Leili Kashani, plus excerpts from "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo."  American University Washington College of Law, JD Lounge, 6th floor, 4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.

Stay tuned for events in LA & SF

   Tuesday, January 25, 5:30 pm, Room 341, Lewis Center, DePaul University College of Law, 25 E. Jackson, Chicago by Amnesty International, World Can't Wait, and DePaul Chapter of The National Lawyers Guild.

M. Cherif Bassiouni is a Distinguished Research Professor Law Emeritus at DePaul University. Candace Gorman is a civil rights/human rights lawyer in Chicago who has represented two Guantánamo detainees pro bono. Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can't Wait.  Ben Meyer is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law and a practicing attorney.

   I wish all of you a happy new year.  Thanks to your hundreds of donations from $4 to $2500, the World Can't Wait fund raiser brought in close to $26,000 by December 31. We were able to speak with hundreds by phone and learned that how you value the work of World Can't Wait, and donate as an important way of being involved in it.

 

   You can count on this work continuing, and on being asked for further donations! The goal -- to fund anti-war protests and the We Are Not Your Soldiers tour for 2011 is $64,000 by January 31.  I really appreciate that more of you have signed up to be monthly sustainers.  We can now do this directly through worldcantwait.net, instead of through Paypal.  Through our fiscal sponsor, Alliance for Global Justice, those of you who wish to have tax deductions can make monthy recurring donations.  Write me for help in arranging that.


The year of resistance to the crimes of our government starts now!  As part of the protests marking the beginning of the tenth year of Guantanamo, we're pleased to announce that World Can't Wait is sponsoring Andy Worthington's east coast events January 6-12.  Andy is traveling from London.  Many of you have read his work on our site; he is the premier "expert" on the conditions of the detainees at Guantanamo. See his article below.

Earmark a donation to support Andy's visit during the Guantanamo protests of $50 or more, and receive a copy of his book The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison.


Andy Worthington Visits the US to Campaign for the Closure of Guantánamo on the 9th Anniverary of the Prison's Opening, January 6-12, 2011 by Andy Worthington

    The 9th anniversary of the opening of the "War on Terror" prison at Guantánamo Bay is on January 11, and, in the hope of raising awareness of the need for action to close Guantánamo and to secure fair trials or release from the prison for the 174 men still held, Andy Worthington, freelance investigative journalist, author of The Guantánamo Files and co-director of the documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo," is traveling to the US to take part in a number of events during the week of this baleful anniversary, with the support of The World Can't Wait and Witness Against Torture.

   Sadly, two years into Barack Obama's Presidency, and a year after the failure of his promise to close Guantánamo within a year, the outlook for the remaining 174 prisoners in Guantánamo is bleaker than it has been at any time since June 27, 2004, the day before the Supreme Court ruled that the prisoners had habeas corpus rights.

   Although 90 of the remaining 174 prisoners have been "approved for transfer" for at least a year by the Guantánamo Review Task Force, established by President Obama to review the cases of the remaining prisoners, 58 of these men are Yemenis, whose release is prevented by a moratorium on the release of any Yemeni prisoners, which was issued by the President last January, in response to hysterical overreaction to the news that the failed Christmas Day plane bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had been recruited in Yemen. In addition, Congress has now stepped in, unconstitutionally restricting the President's powers by declaring Yemen as one of several countries that are too dangerous for prisoners to be released to.

   The remaining 32 men "approved for transfer" are mostly still held because of fears that they will face torture or other ill-treatment in their home countries, and because no third countries have been found that will accept them. They should, therefore, be offered new homes in the United States, but the Obama administration, the courts and Congress have all acted to prevent the relocation of a single cleared Guantánamo prisoner to the US mainland.

   Of the remaining 84 prisoners, three are imprisoned after trials by Military Commission, 33 were recommended for trials by the Task Force, and 48 others were recommended for indefinite detention without charge or trial. Congress recently passed legislation preventing the transfer of any of these men to the US mainland to face trials, and also preventing the administration from buying a US prison to rehouse them, but this is not the only stumbling block to attempts to secure justice for any of these men.

Although the adminstration has been prevented from proceeding with the planned federal court trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks, officials have also shown little appetite for trials by Military Commission either, especially after the negative publicity that greeted the plea deal negotiated in October with the former child prisoner Omar Khadr, who was obliged to plead guilty to war crimes invented by Congress and endorsed by the administration.

   In addition, it was recently announced that President Obama is set to sign an executive order formalizing the indefinite detention of the 48 men designated for indefinite detention by the Task Force. This will allow them a periodic review of their cases, but it remains an unjustifiable position for the administration to maintain (and is symptomatic of the administration's disregard for the US courts and the prisoners' ongoing habeas petitions), and the combination of factors in play as Guantánamo begins the 10th year of its lawless business — the executive order regarding indefinite detention, the unwillingness to proceed with any trials, and the self-imposed obstacles preventing the release of 90 men whose release was recommended by the Task Force — means that, on this particular anniversary, there is a very real possibility, without concerted effort by Americans opposed to the existence of Guantánamo and all it stands for, that almost everyone still held at Guantánamo will continue to be held indefinitely.


Hold the date: This from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression

Protest on Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011 

Take action now!

Show your solidarity with the nine newly subpoenaed activists who are being called before a grand jury in Chicago on January 25.

We are calling for protests on Jan. 25 across the country and around the world to show our solidarity. Hundreds of organizations and thousands of people will be protesting at Federal Buildings, FBI offices, and other appropriate places.


Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait

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