Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: Tomorrow! Protest Dick Cheney! Close Gitmo alerts & other peace events

[Patty Guerrero (pattypax]

Come and join .   patty

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> From: "Rowley Clan" <rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net>
> Date: May 6, 2013 1:22:11 PM CDT
> To: <rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net>
> Subject: Tomorrow! Protest Dick Cheney! Close Gitmo alerts & other peace 
> events
> Reply-To: <rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net>
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> Please come on May 7th to help us hand out flyers and ask the Thoracic 
> Surgeons why, after all their elaborate efforts, they still couldn’t fix Dick 
> Cheney’s heart! 
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> WARNING:
> The “honored speaker” at the May 7th American Association for Thoracic 
> Surgery’s Annual Meeting in Minneapolis is a
> War Criminal
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> *  Conspiracy to torture is a felony in the U.S. Code, in both Title 18, 
> Section 2340 and Title 18, Section 2441.
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> * The Convention Against Torture requires the criminal prosecution of 
> complicity in torture.
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> And mark May 23rd on your calendar to ask Legal Aid why they would want to 
> hear from Condi Rice who ordered illegal torture. 
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> If you need ideas for signs, check out the ones below that we used for our 
> “death march” outside the Bush Lie-Bury last week---these should inspire us 
> to make our own messages to hold outside the Cheney-Condi events here! 
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> The situation is desperate.  Please make calls and write to close Guantanamo 
> now to end the torture, the lawlessness and horrible hunger strikes.  I.e., 
> what are our MN Senators who sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee doing?  
> Ask them! Ask Obama too!  Without more US citizens’ input, Obama seems to 
> lack the political will to keep any of his promise(s). Add your name to 
> Morris Davis’ petition and to Code Pink’s symbolic “hunger strike.”    
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> President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay
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> By Morris Davis, former Guantanamo               Military Prosecutor.
> Gainesville, Virginia
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> Sign Colonel Davis's Petition
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> I served 25 years in the US Air Force, I was the Chief Prosecutor for the 
> Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, and now I need 
> your help.
> I personally charged Osama Bin Laden’s driver Salim Hamdan, Australian 
> anathema David Hicks, and Canadian teen Omar Khadr.  All three were convicted 
> … and then they were released from Guantanamo.  More than 160 men who have 
> never been charged with any offense, much less convicted of           a war 
> crime, remain at Guantanamo with no end in sight.  There is something 
> fundamentally wrong with a system where not being charged with a war crime 
> keeps you locked away indefinitely and a war crime conviction is your ticket 
> home.
> As of April 29, 2013 – 100 of the 166 men who remain in Guantanamo are 
> engaged in a hunger strike in protest of their indefinite detention.  
> Twenty-one of them are being force-fed and five are hospitalized.  Some of 
> the men have been in prison for more than eleven years without charge or 
> trial.  The United States has cleared a majority of the detainees for 
> transfer out of Guantanamo, yet they remain in custody year after year 
> because of their citizenship and ongoing political gamesmanship in the U.S. 
> That is why I am calling on Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel to use his 
> authority to effect cleared transfers from Guantanamo and on President Obama 
> to appoint an individual within the Administration to lead the effort to 
> close Guantanamo. Obama announced on April 30 that he plans to do his part to 
> close Guantanamo, but he has made this promise before.  Now is the time to 
> hold him to his promise and urge him to take the steps necessary to dismantle 
> Guantanamo Bay Prison. 
> If any other country were treating prisoners the way we are treating those in 
> Guantanamo we would roundly and rightly criticize that country.  We can never 
> retake the legal and moral high ground when we claim the right to do unto 
> others that which we would vehemently condemn if done to one of us.
> It is probably no surprise that human rights and activist groups like the 
> Center For Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture and Amnesty 
> International have been outspoken critics of Guantanamo.  It may surprise you 
> that a former military prosecutor and many other retired senior military 
> officers and members of the intelligence community agree with them. 
> The Patriotic thing, the American thing, the Human thing to do here is to 
> Close Guantanamo.  Please join us in the fight by signing this petition.
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> Sign Colonel Davis's Petition
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> May 4, 2013
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> Dear Coleen,
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> Join Deepak Chopra and send us your solidarity photos!
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> Join the Global Hunger Strike: Take the Pledge Now!
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> Tweet this at President Obama!
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> Share it on Twitter!
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> Share on Facebook!
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> Join the urgent call to save the lives of 130 prisoners on a hunger strike in 
> Guantanamo by agreeing to fast (preferably in a public place) for at least 24 
> hours. We already have over 600 people signed up. Help us reach 1,000! Sign 
> our pledge to join the global hunger strike and actions for justice for 
> Guantanamo prisoners by fasting. 
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> Today, 130 of the 166 detainees in Guantanamo are engaged in a hunger strike 
> that started in February. Even though President Obama promised to shut down 
> Guantanamo when he ran for president and continues to say he wants to close 
> the prison, his failure to do so has prompted us to take further action by 
> organizing a global hunger strike. Join us by signing the pledge now!
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> All over the world, people are outraged by the indefinite detention of 
> prisoners at Guantanamo and their cruel and degrading treatment. Join the 
> fast with high-profile global figures such as holistic healer Deepak Chopra, 
> playwright Eve Ensler, and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Send us a 
> picture of youself with a message you would like to share with the world and 
> we will post it in our growing Flickr set.
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> After 11 years protesting in orange jumpsuits at the White House, in 
> Congress, at the State Department and even making a trip to Guantanamo, we 
> realize it is time to make this bigger than ever. Join us, wherever you are, 
> today!
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> Onward toward justice for all,
> Alli, Candice, Dooler, Jodie, Medea, Nancy, Noor, Rooj, Tighe
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> P.S. Tweet this: Hey @BarackObama, keep your promise: Close Guantanamo! 
> #CloseGitmo @WhiteHouse #Fast4Gitmo
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> P.P.S. Join CODEPINK in Fort Meade, Maryland on June 1st as Bradley Manning’s 
> trial kicks off!   * a van from Minneapolis may be going and airfares on 
> Southwest are not much more than $200 round trip.
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> Also see: 
> http://news.yahoo.com/american-medical-association-questions-guantanamo-force-feedings-195833521.html
> American Medical Association questions Guantanamo force-feedings 
> By Jane Sutton MIAMI (Reuters) - The Navy sent extra medical personnel to the 
> Guantanamo detention camp because of a growing hunger
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> 'Torture Reinforcements' Not 'Medical Personnel' Arrive to Combat Gitmo 
> Hunger Strike
> US Military Calls in 'Force-Feeding Teams' as Guantanamo Hunger Strike 
> Continues
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> US Military Calls in 'Force-Feeding Teams' as Guantanamo Hunger Strike 
> Continues
> www.commondreams.org
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>  Subject: Take Action for COMPASSIONATE RELEASE FOR LYNNE STEWART NOW!
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> I have just sent messages to President Obama, Attorney General Holder, 
> Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Samuels, Congressional leaders, and 
> members of the media asking for COMPASSIONATE RELEASE OF LYNNE STEWART NOW!
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> Please take the time to do the same by clicking on the link at the bottom of 
> this email message.
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> Thanks!
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> http://www.iacenter.org/LynneStewartPetition  (if you are unable to click on 
> this  link, copy it and paste it into your browser)
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> Peacestock 2013---Mark your calendar for Saturday, July 13!
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> See attached flyer!


No more hurting people----PEACE
Martin Richard