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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>TASSC International Hosts U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  UN Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez with TASSC Executive Director Demissie Abebe   It was TASSC International’s honor to host the newly elected United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture on Thursday, January 13, 2011. Dr. Juan Mendez was welcomed with a luncheon followed by an opportunity to address survivors from TASSC, as well as human rights advocates and faith-based groups working to end torture. Dr. Mendez shared with survivors and other gathered at TASSC the mandate he has been given by the United Nations: “By insisting on the absolute prohibition of torture and of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in international law, I hope to make an effective contribution to the enforcement and progressive development of international norms in this area.” Dr. Mendez has dedicated his long legal career to defending human rights and has a distinguished record of advocacy. He recently served as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Genocide under Secretary General Kofi Annan. Before that, he directed the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York, taught international law at various universities, and directed the Washington Office of Americas Watch during the 1980s. Dr. Mendez is currently visiting professor of law at the Washington College of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninth Anniversary of Guantanamo Shames United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press releases 11-01-2011 Today, nine years on from the opening of the United States detention facility at Guantanamo, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) condemned US authorities for their failure to close the camp and to bring to account those who designed and carried out torture there. Since the first prisoners arrived on 11 January 2002, the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay quickly become a symbol of the abuse of human rights and civil liberties occurring within the so-called “war on terrorism”. “The fact that there are still inmates at the notorious camp in Cuba shames the United States. Guantanamo is a symbol of how the self-styled ‘leader of the free world’ disregarded its commitments to upholding the most basic of human rights,” said Brita Sydhoff, IRCT Secretary-General. “The message that has been sent out by the United States is that torture is OK, that it is acceptable in some circumstances. This is as dangerous as it is wrong. And of course, we must remember that the majority of the world’s millions of torture victims are not alleged terrorists or political prisoners, but rather the women, men and children living in poverty and afflicted by corruption,” added Sydhoff. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join Witness Against Torture</title>
		<link>http://www.sicsal-usa.org/2010/01/join-witness-against-torture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>swright</dc:creator>
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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>Suicide Rates Surged Among U.S. Veterans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Jan 13, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Suicides among United States military veterans ballooned by 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to new statistics released by the Veterans Affairs (VA) department. &#8220;Of the more than 30,000 suicides in this country each year, fully 20 percent of them are acts by veterans,&#8221; said VA Secretary Eric Shinseki at a VA-sponsored suicide prevention conference on Monday. &#8220;That means on average 18 veterans commit suicide each day. Five of those veterans are under our care at VA.&#8221; The spike in the suicide rate can most clearly be attributed to the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the high number of veterans returning to the U.S. with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). &#8221;We have now nearly two million vets of Iraq and Afghanistan and we still haven&#8217;t seen the type of mobilisation of resources necessary to handle an epidemic of veteran suicides,&#8221; Aaron Glantz, an editor at New America Media editor and author of &#8220;The War Comes Home&#8221;, told IPS. &#8221;With [President Barack] Obama surging in Afghanistan coupled with his unwillingness to withdraw speedily from Iraq, it means we have more veterans who have served more and more tours and [...]]]></description>
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