Posted in Guantanamo & Torture, Torture & Human Dignity, Witness Against Torture on January 17th, 2010 Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted in Iraq & Afghanistan War, Obama's First 100 Days on October 7th, 2009 Comments Off
By Howard Zinn
May 16, 2009,
The Progressive
We are citizens, and Obama is a politician. You might not like that
word. But the fact is he’s a politician. He’s other things, too – he’s a very sensitive and intelligent and thoughtful and promising person. But he’s a politician.
If you’re a citizen, you have to know the difference between [...]
Posted in Colombia, Militarization & Globalization on October 7th, 2009 Comments Off
Photo by Jim Harney
By Gary Leech
Colombia Journal
Tercer Milenio Park is located only a few blocks from Colombia’s presidential palace in the center of Bogotá and offers respite from the chaotic city to local residents. But for the past four months, it has also been a refuge from the country’s rural violence for more than one [...]
Posted in Colombia, Militarization & Globalization on October 7th, 2009 Comments Off
By John Lindsay-Poland
Fellowship of Reconciliation
The United States is negotiating for the use of five military facilities in Colombia, in an agreement whose objectives include “filling the gaps left by the eventual cutting of [military] aid in Plan Colombia,” according to sources in Washington and Bogotá cited by an explosive article published July 1 in the [...]
Posted in Guantanamo & Torture, Human Rights, Torture & Human Dignity, Witness Against Torture on October 7th, 2009 Comments Off
By Scott Wright
TASSC Event Coordinator
For the 12th consecutive year, the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition (TASSC International) gathered in the halls of Congress and the streets of Washington DC to call out to the U.S. government and governments of the world: “Torture Never Again!” the theme of this year’s gathering.
More than 75 survivors of [...]