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		<title>Witness against Torture Fast to Close Guantanamo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo & Torture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[            Dear Friends, Greetings from Washington, DC and Day Seven of the Fast for Justice. We are 40 or so in Washington, DC and over 100 throughout the country. In this brief note, we hope to share with you some sense of what our days have been like as we pass the halfway mark of the Fast for Justice. We have been getting to know Washington “under the hood”  &#8211; so to speak- as we process in black hoods and orange jumpsuits. It is a strange and revelatory perspective on our Nation’s Capitol. The landscape in DC is studded with monuments to war heroes, epic battles, and larger than life political figures.  Our time here is not as enduring as granite and marble, bronze and steel, but we hope that our impermanent memorials to injustice can be striking and affecting as we render tableaus of silent suffering in black and orange, and interject the humanity of the imprisoned, tortured men through the repetition of their names and recitation of their poetry.  We are a living monument, the injustice we mark is still happening. We began our time together with a day of resistance and our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti: One Year After the Earthquake Killed Over 250,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 17:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    January 9, 2011. By Roger Annis. Of all the commentaries and interviews coinciding with the anniversary of Haiti&#8217;s earthquake, none are likely to exceed in significance the interview granted by OAS Representative to Haiti, Ricardo Seitenfus, to the Swiss daily Le Temps on December 20. The critique he delivered to the newspaper is especially significant for Latin America and the Caribbean because Seitenfus is Brazilian. Sensitivity is running high in the region over the evident failure of the international relief effort led by the big powers &#8211; the United States, Canada and Europe &#8211; whose interventionist policies had already done so much harm to Haiti before this latest catastrophe. Brazil is the leading country of the UN Security Council&#8217;s military occupation force known as MINUSTAH. Eight other countries of Latin America provide foot soldiers to the force, including Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Brazil has also supplied important humanitarian assistance, but Cuba and Venezuela have distinguished themselves by providing massive effective aid that is unsullied by participation in an imperialist-initiated military occupation force. JANUARY 12 As the one-year anniversary of Haiti&#8217;s earthquake approaches, a brutally frank account of the plight of its people has been delivered by a highly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Earthquake #7: As Many as 200,000 Killed</title>
		<link>http://www.sicsal-usa.org/2010/01/haiti-earthquake-7-as-many-as-200000-killed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 18, 2010 Haiti Earthquake, #7 &#8211; ELDERLY AWAIT DEATH AT NURSING HOME Please read and re-distribute these Haiti Earthquake reports and encourage people to make donations to Rights Action and/or groups listed below. BELOW Article:  “Elderly await death at nursing home” Article:  “Haiti quake toll ‘may be 200,000&#8242;” Article:  “The west’s role in haiti’s plight” “U.S. General Keen, running the US military relief effort, when asked about death toll estimates of between 150,000 and 200,000 people, said: &#8220;I think the international community is looking at those figures, and I think that&#8217;s a start point. Clearly, this is a disaster of epic proportions, and we&#8217;ve got a lot of work ahead of us.&#8221; – BBC report “Haiti is routinely described as the &#8220;poorest country in the western hemisphere&#8221;. This poverty is the direct legacy of perhaps the most brutal system of colonial exploitation in world history, compounded by decades of systematic postcolonial oppression. The noble &#8220;international community&#8221; which is currently scrambling to send its &#8220;humanitarian aid&#8221; to Haiti is largely responsible for the extent of the suffering it now aims to reduce.” – Peter Hallward Re-distribute this information all around To get on/off our list-serv: http://www.rightsaction.org/lists/?p=subscribe&#38;id=3 For more information: Grahame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join Witness Against Torture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo & Torture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CALL TO ACTION: Join Witness Against Torture January 11-22, 2010 in a Fast and Vigil to Shut Down Guantanamo, End Torture and Build Justice “I believe strongly that torture is not moral, legal or effective.” Guantanamo is “a damaging symbol to the world… a rallying cry for terrorist recruitment and harmful to our national security, so closing it is important for our national security.” Admiral Dennis Blair. January 2009. On January 22, 2009, after signing the Executive Order to close Guantanamo, President Obama said &#8220;This is me following through &#8230; on an understanding that dates back to our founding fathers, that we are willing to observe core standards of conduct not just when it&#8217;s easy but also when it&#8217;s hard.&#8221; Obama committed his administration to closing the prison—long a symbol of U.S. terror and lawlessness—within a year. Since that time, the process of releasing or relocating or prosecuting the 200 plus men still detained at Guantanamo has become mired in bureaucratic machinations, Congressional grandstanding and fear-mongering, and legal foot-dragging. In the meantime, the president seems to have lost interest in the issue altogether. And what of the imprisoned men themselves &#8211; those still detained, still separated from their families after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Earthquake #6: Reject Their “Blame the Victims” Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 17, 2010 Haiti Earthquake, #6 Sign-on letter to the New York Times.  Reject their “Blame the Victims” analysis Dear friends, we are still only beginning to grasp the extent of death and destruction.  Please continue to read and re-distribute these Haiti Earthquake reports and encourage people to make donations. The estimates of people killed are over 100,000 Mass graves are being dug and filled with bodies and covered up, with no identifying process Watch CNN television news for daily reporting from Haiti (though CNN provides misleading analysis of the underlying causes of so much death and destruction) SIGN-ON LETTER Many have heard the racist, denigrating and harmful comments of Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh, blaming the Haitians for their own misery.  Pat and Rush speak for conservative, right-wing sectors of the republican party and U.S. society. Below, an opinion piece by David Brooks, of the New York Times and a regular on NPR (National Public Radio). ‘Blaming the Haitians’ speech perpetuates ignorance about the underlying causes of death, destruction and vulnerability in Haiti, turning a blind eye to how the “international community” (including the governments of the USA, France, Canada, including the United Nations, Inter-American Development Bank) directly contributed [...]]]></description>
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