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10 Years of detention and torture: Witness Against Torture January actions
From January 2-12 Witness Against Torture will spend two weeks in Washington D.C. leading up to the 10 year commemoration of the Guantanamo prison and along with it a system of indefinite detention and torture that targets Arab, South Asian, and Muslim men and necessitates the spread of rampant Islamophobia that we have seen escalating…
NVA Letters
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Memorial for long-time WRL staff member Karl Bissinger
Karl Bissinger, 1914-2008 A memorial for long-time War Resisters League staff member Karl Bissinger will be held on Thursday, January 29, 6 pm in the Community Room at Westbeth (155 Bank Street) in the west Village. Westbeth, with entrances mid-block at 55 Bethune Street or through courtyard at Bank Street, is on a block…
100 Days to Close Guantanamo
Speakers at WRL Forum on War, Prisons and Torture on Monday, April 27, 2009 Protesters outside the White House on the 100th day, April 30, 2009 See media releases on the 100 Days Campaign: May 1, 2009 – 61 Anti-Torture Demonstrators Arrested at The White House April 29, 2009 –…
Gloria Williams, ¡presente!
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