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letter of august to the President Obama

2011-08-01T11:23:32Z

Mr President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
Ten years ago, on June 8th 2001, the Miami Court declared as guilty five Cubans - Gerardo Hernández Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino and René González. Several days later, on June 17th 2001, while these five patriots were still imprisoned in Miami, they wrote a message to the people of the United States. The censorship imposed on them at the time, and which is (…)

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letter of july to Obama

2011-07-01T19:57:59Z

Mr President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
The five Cubans Gerardo Hernández Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and René González, are imprisoned in your country for almost thirteen years now. They came to Miami to infiltrate the terrorist underworld in order to avoid the terrorist attacks that were increasing against tourist facilities in Havana during the eighties. The documents that the Cuban (…)

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letter of june to Obama

2011-06-01T14:33:18Z

Mr President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
Last month, your country distinguished itself when a commando squad of U.S. Special Forces assassinated Bin Laden, not far from Islamabad. After the September 11th 2001 terrorist attack, Bin Laden became the United State's most wanted terrorist. According to Pakistani authorities, neither the members of the commando squad nor the C.I.A. agents who planned this operation declared (…)

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Israel's Masada Attack Palestinian Prisoners

2011-04-22T08:58:59Z

Hundreds of Palestinian have died inside Israeli prisons and now an Israeli television channel has aired shocking footage of Israel's so-called Control and Restraint unit, or Masada, attacking Palestinian prisoners.
Activists have demanded people in charge of the operation, carried out in 2007, be charged and the family of one of the victims told Al Jazeera that they would consider suing Masada.
Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh reports from Seida in the occupied West Bank. (17 Apr 2011) (…)

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letter of april to Obama.

2011-04-02T16:17:46Z

Mr President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500.
Mr President,
The little village where I live with my family is situated at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains, in Bearn.
Chiefly at the end of the nineteenth century, a number of people from Bearn, just as their neighbors the Basques, immigrated to Argentina, to Uruguay, to Cuba and to (…)

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Letter of march to Obama.

2011-03-03T07:39:13Z

Mr President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500.
Mr President,
I would like to begin this letter with a poem written by one of the Cuban Five, Antonio Guerrero, when he was locked up in solitary confinement at the Oklahoma Federal Prison, waiting for his next transfer. This was one year ago.
A poem of hope, that pays homage to the international solidarity movement that is growing ever stronger, asking (…)

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Letter of february to Obama.

2011-02-02T17:23:48Z

Mister President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mister President,
In my letter of the month of November 2010, I recalled the arrest of Francisco Chavez Abarca.
This Salvadorian terrorist had been arrested in Caracas July 1st 2010 while attempting to enter into Venezuela with false identity papers. As he later admitted, his objective was to evaluate the possibility of creating, in connection with radical opposition members, unrest and acts (…)

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Video: Human Rights Activists Demand: “Uphold the Rule of Law, End Torture and Close Gitmo!”

2011-01-13T16:19:59Z

Human Rights Activists Demand: “Uphold the Rule of Law, End Torture and Close Gitmo!” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 11, 2011, scores of Human Rights activists demonstrated outside the U.S. Justice Department, in Washington, D.C. They were staging “a day of action,” directed at closing Gitmo and ending torture. There were no arrests. Featured in this video are: Author Andy Worthington; activists Ruth Hooke, Justin Norman, and Ray McGovern; and Peace Poet, Luke (…)

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Video: Author Andy Worthington on Closing Gitmo

2011-01-12T15:50:37Z

On Monday evening, Jan. 10, 2011, author Andy Worthington discussed the need, on moral and legal grounds, for the U.S. government to close the “illegal prison” at Guantanamo. He is the author of the acclaimed book: “The Guantanamo Files.” Mr. Worthington was speaking in Baltimore, MD, at a book signing event for the author of “War Is a Lie,” David Swanson. Activist Diane Wittner coordinated the program.

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Video: Peace Poet Luke Nephew: “There's a Man Under that Hood!”

2011-01-12T12:53:10Z

On Jan. 11, 2011, outside the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C., Peace Poet Luke Nephew recited his poem, “There's a Man Under that Hood!” The demonstration was directed at Closing Gitmo and ending torture. To learn more, go to: http://www.witnesstorture.org/

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