Pax-salon Mailing List: Fwd: [WAMM] ACTION ALERT - Call your senators - NDAA Guantanamo provisions

[Patty Guerrero (pattypax]

Hope you all can act on this alert.   patty

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> From: Coleen Rowley <rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net>
> Date: November 19, 2013 9:36:12 PM CST
> To: Gary King <g5king [at] msn.com>, James Roth <jim52roth [at] yahoo.com>, 
> Thomas Dickinson <tgd108 [at] usiwireless.com>, Patty Guerrero <pattypax [at] 
> earthlink.net>, charles turchick <cturchick [at] hotmail.com>, 
> "ssonjaajohnson [at] msn.com" <ssonjaajohnson [at] msn.com>, "reneets2 [at] 
> juno.com" <reneets2 [at] juno.com>, Roger Cuthbertson <rojo [at] visi.com>, 
> Suzan Koch <suzykoch [at] comcast.net>
> Subject: FW: [WAMM] ACTION ALERT - Call your senators - NDAA Guantanamo 
> provisions
> 
> WAMM sent out this action alert today.  We need to share it and repost it as 
> much as possible.  Coleen
>  
> From: wamm [at] mtn.org
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:29:41 -0600
> To: wamm [at] lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [WAMM] ACTION ALERT - Call your senators - NDAA Guantanamo provisions
> 
> We need a big push on Guantanamo NOW!
> 
> Senators will soon debate and vote on new and improved detainee transfer 
> provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2014 (NDAA). The 
> 2014 defense authorization bill (S. 1197) includes 3 provisions that can help 
> close Guantanamo. If we lose, we may face yet another year of human rights 
> violations at the prison.
> The vote will be before Thanksgiving. 
> 
> The bill as approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee on a 23-3 vote 
> contains provisions giving the President broader authority to responsibly 
> wind down the Guantanamo detention facility. Among the bill’s provisions are 
> ones that allow detainees in need of urgent medical care that is not 
> available at Guantanamo to be brought to a military medical facility in the 
> U.S. temporarily for treatment; a streamlined process for the Secretary of 
> Defense to transfer detainees to third countries; and authorization for the 
> Secretary, if he determines it is in the national interest and can be done 
> safely, to transfer detainees to the U.S. for trial. See more information 
> about the bill and see a transcript of today's plea by Sen Carl Levin on the 
> provision. 
>  
> Here's what you can do!
> 
>   Urge your 2 Senators to support the new & improved transfer provisions:
> 
> Sign
>  and share this new online petition that goes directly to your Senators: 
> www.amnestyusa.org/ndaa
> 
> Tweet 
> your 2 Senators, for example: Dear @_____ (your Senators) I live in _______ & 
> urge you to support closing #Guantanamo amnestyusa.org/ndaa
> 
> Call
>  your 2 Senators via the Senate Switchboard (202.224.3121) and say "I live in 
>  (state)________ and I urge the Senator to support the Guantanamo transfer 
> provisions in the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1197, as 
> introduced by the Senate Armed Services Committee. The specific sections to 
> support are 1031, 1032 and 1033. These provisions will help ensure that each 
> detainee is either safely and fairly tried in US federal court, or 
> transferred to other countries, as appropriate."
> 
> Thank you, 
> Tackling Torture at the Top (T3) Committee of Women Against Military Madness
> 
> http://tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com/
> 
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