[WAT] June 22-25: Join us in Washington, DC

[Matthew W. Daloisio]

Hello friends!

A final reminder about our gathering in Washington DC this week to join 
with TASSC (Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition) and 
others as *WE REMEMBER: The Names. The Faces. The Souls of the Tortured. 
The Disappeared. The Lost. So They Are Not Forgotten.
*
Our planning meeting tomorrow evening (Wednesday) at 6:30pm will be at 
the*TASSC Office, 4121 Harewood Road, NE, Washington DC*.  We will 
carpool from St. Stephen's where we will meet at 5pm for dinner.  Let us 
know if you are coming, and we hope to see many of you this week.

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When it comes to Guantanamo Bay, the politics of fear and cynicism have 
won out over any promised hope or change.

- Letter to the Editor 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/guantanamo-and-the-politics-of-fear/2011/04/26/AFW15X9E_story.html> 
in the Washington Post on April 28, 2011 by Matthew W. Daloisio
CALL TO ACTION - JOIN US ON JUNE 22-25, 2011

<http://blip.tv/file/4600027>
Fast for Justice, January 21, 2011
We must continue to speak and act against the ongoing crime of Guantanamo!

We walk in shame and grief and anger.

We walk mindful of broken promises, hollow words, and bankrupt 
institutions.

We walk for men torn from their families and homelands, tortured and 
abused by this nation, still detained without charge or trial after all 
these years.

We walk because we know that torture is wrong, that the indefinite 
detention of people without charge is wrong, and that vilification of 
South Asians and Muslims is wrong.

We walk because we cannot and will not accept injustice, forsake hope, 
and forget the humanity of the men detained by the United States at 
Guantanamo, Bagram, and other detention sites.

*From June 22-25, 2011, Witness Against Torture will return to our 
nation's capitol. Please Join us.* *

22 June 2011: DAY OF PREPARATION

    12-2 vigil @ the Department of Justice
    5pm dinner @ St. Stephen's
    6:30pm action planning at TASSC

23 June 2011: DAY OF ACTION

    11am Solemn procession from the White House to the Department of
    Justice to the Supreme Court to Congress 

24 June 2011: DAY OF FASTING

    12pm-2pm vigil @ the Department of Justice 

25 June 2011: DAY OF SOLIDARITY

    7am-7pm vigil @ the White House with the Torture Abolition
    Survivor's Support Coalition as part of their week for survivors of
    torture
    <http://tassc.org/blog/2011/04/tassc-june-survivor-week-june-19-26-2011/>


Additional information will be posted in the coming weeks at 
www.witnesstorture.org <http://www.witnesstorture.org>. You can let us 
know you are coming by writing to fast at witnesstorture.org 
<mailto:fast at witnesstorture.org>. Please DOWNLOAD 
<http://witnesstorture.org/sites/witnesstorture.org/files/WATMay2011Flier.pdf> 
and distribute our new flier!

*"THE ONLY WAY OUT OF GUANTANAMO IS IN A COFFIN"*

Awal Gul 
<http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/782-awal-gul>From Andy 
Worthington 
<http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/05/21/the-only-way-out-of-guantanamo-is-in-a-coffin/>: 
"The last living prisoner to be released from Guantánamo was Farhi Saeed 
bin Mohammed <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhi_Saeed_bin_Mohammed>, an 
Algerian who was repatriated against his will in January. Since then, an 
Afghan prisoner, Awal Gul <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awal_Gul>, died 
in February, and on last week the US military announced that another 
Afghan prisoner, Inayatullah 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inayatullah_%28Guantanamo_detainee_10029%29>, 
who was 37 years old, "died of an apparent suicide," early on the 
morning of May 18."

ALSO SEE

    * Hunger strikes
      <http://www.truth-out.org/guantanamo-detainees-hunger-strike-protest-confinement-conditions/1304092655>
      continue at Guantanamo to protest conditions of confinement and
      President Obama's indefinite detention order.
    * Witness Against Torture's response
      <http://www.witnesstorture.org/pr-wikileaks-4-25-11> to the latest
      Wikilieaks
      <http://wikileaks.ch/gitmo/%29%20release%20on%20Guantanamo> about
      Guantanamo.
    * Witness Against Torture's latest letter
      <http://witnesstorture.org/stonewalled-by-DOJ> (April 7, 2011) to
      the Department of Justice.
    * Read Kathy Kelly's
      <http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-6?page=1> and War
      Resisters Leagues's
      <href=%22http://www.warresisters.org/binladenmurder> statements on
      the murder of Osama Bin Laden.

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     Matthew W. Daloisio
     daloisio at riseup.net
     New York Catholic Worker - Maryhouse
     55 East 3rd Street, NY, NY 10003
     Witness Against Torture -www.witnesstorture.org
     War Resisters League -www.warresisters.org
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