We’re grateful for Bishop Thomas Gumbleton’s call to end complicity with war: although addressed to members of his own faith, his words challenge all who long to abolish war and weapons. Bishop Gumbleton traveled withContinue reading
Category: Guantanamo
Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq – Kathy Kelly
“If he’s a good guy, you know, now he’s a bad guy because of the way we treated him.”
Afghanistan, Drones, Guantanamo, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Nonviolent Resistance Actions, Palestine, Syria, Torture, Yemen
Wed Jun 12 FREE TRIP TO EGYPT screenings
Voices for Creative Nonviolence is happy to help promote simultaneous screenings of the documentary FREE TRIP TO EGYPT to occur in 500 theaters nationwide at 6:30pm Central Time this Wednesday, June 12th. The film followsContinue reading
Press Release: Fast for Yemen Dec 29-Jan 12
Photo: from NYC Yemen protest, credit Felton Davis PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: December 28, 2018 TWO-WEEK FAST CALLS FOR AN END TO WAR IN YEMEN AND DRAMATIC MEASURES TO AVOID FAMINE; PARTICIPANTS BEGIN INContinue reading
June 15 Marks 6,000 Days of Guantánamo: Rights Groups Tell Donald Trump to Close the Prison, Say “Not One Day More!”
Today, June 15, 2018, is a depressing milestone in the long history of U.S. detention at Guantánamo Bay. Today the Guantánamo prison, set up after the 9/11 attacks, has been open for 6,000 days. MostContinue reading
Solidarity from Central Cellblock to Guantanamo- by Brian Terrell
On Thursday, January 11, the sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was marked by a coalition of 15 human rights organizations gathered in Lafayette Park, acrossContinue reading
41 Hearts Beating in Guantanamo
Photo: Witness Against Torture protestors march to the White House (Justin Norman) by Kathy Kelly – January 13, 2018 January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjectingContinue reading
Witness Against Torture Activists Arrested
Names of those arrested: Chantal de Alcuaz Jerica Arents Beth Brockman Don Cunning Erica Ewing Ellen Graves Martha Hennessey Sherrill Hogan Kathy Kelly Joanne Lingle Joan Pleune Manijeh Saba Helen Schietinger Eve TetazContinue reading
Witness Against Torture 2017
Photos from Witness Against Torture’s Fast for Justice in January, 2017. Please go to WAT website to see more photos, read stories and listen to activist. For updates go to the ‘News’ tab on theContinue reading
Obama Must Bring Us a Waterfall of Pardons
The U.S. will soon be governed by a president who banked his campaign on vilifying Muslims and undocumented immigrants and on promising to maintain the devalued legal status of Black lives. The next twoContinue reading