Friday, January 11, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Dallas Demonstration to Shut Down Guantanamo
Earle Cabell Federal Building, 1100 Commerce St.
Six years after the first hooded, shackled men were brought to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo, not a single prisoner has been convicted of a charge of terrorism. Many have been released because no evidence was found against them. Yet nearly 300 men remain in indefinite detention without hope of release. Join other human rights activists in Dallas and throughout the nation in demanding that the prison be shut down.
With these actions, people of conscience and justice call on the U.S. government to:
· Repeal the Military Commissions Act and restore Habeas Corpus
· Charge and try or release all detainees,
· Clearly and unequivocally forbid torture and all other forms of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, by the military, the CIA, prison guards, civilian contractors, or anyone else,
· Pay reparations to current and former detainees and their families for violations of their human rights, and
· Shut down Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and all other U.S. prisons overseas, including secret CIA detention facilities.
Sponsored by the End the Occupation of Iraq Committee of the Dallas Peace Center and local chapters of Amnesty International, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Code Pink and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Hear poetry written by Guantanamo prisoners and view scenes of last year’s Dallas demonstration to shut down Guantanamo on the home page of http://www.dallaspeacecenter.org/
Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeemilyplay/sets/72157603694946085/
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avz6U9yKL0U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzTH4oRNLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI3-6GvPv-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHDnPL8CIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO4UeisUS2s
Thanks to EmilyC for these fantastic images !
Dallas Demonstration to Shut Down Guantanamo
Earle Cabell Federal Building, 1100 Commerce St.
Six years after the first hooded, shackled men were brought to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo, not a single prisoner has been convicted of a charge of terrorism. Many have been released because no evidence was found against them. Yet nearly 300 men remain in indefinite detention without hope of release. Join other human rights activists in Dallas and throughout the nation in demanding that the prison be shut down.
With these actions, people of conscience and justice call on the U.S. government to:
· Repeal the Military Commissions Act and restore Habeas Corpus
· Charge and try or release all detainees,
· Clearly and unequivocally forbid torture and all other forms of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, by the military, the CIA, prison guards, civilian contractors, or anyone else,
· Pay reparations to current and former detainees and their families for violations of their human rights, and
· Shut down Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and all other U.S. prisons overseas, including secret CIA detention facilities.
Sponsored by the End the Occupation of Iraq Committee of the Dallas Peace Center and local chapters of Amnesty International, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Code Pink and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Hear poetry written by Guantanamo prisoners and view scenes of last year’s Dallas demonstration to shut down Guantanamo on the home page of http://www.dallaspeacecenter.org/
Photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeemilyplay/sets/72157603694946085/
Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avz6U9yKL0U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzTH4oRNLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI3-6GvPv-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHDnPL8CIE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO4UeisUS2s
Thanks to EmilyC for these fantastic images !
