Washington DC: On a chilly January 11, 2009, Amnesty International USA joined with Witness Against Torture for a very orange rally to shut Guantanamo. Approximately 250 people took part.
On Tuesday, January 13th during the evening rush hour, the New York Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International USA held a candlelight vigil to close Guantanamo in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. Approximately 50 people attended.
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Close Guantánamo action in Belgium
Just a little feedback on the demonstration we made yesterday in front of the US embassy in Brussels.
As you can see on the banner (in the picture), our key message was “Let them go or try them according international standards”.
We built a big cage and had big hellium ballons in the shape of orange jumpsuits. We were not received by US authorities but three belgian EP joined us. 60 persons were present at the action. Wa also had some images on the TV noon news and the main belgian press agency (Belga) made a PR.
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En el séptimo aniversario de la llegada de los primeros presos al centro de detención de Guantánamo, Amnistía Internacional se ha concentrado frente a la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Madrid.
Bajo los lemas: “Bye Guantánamo” y “Cómo cuándo”, los activistas de la organización han pedido el cierre de este símbolo de la “guerra contra el terror”.
Visita la página web de Amnistía Internacional en España.
It was a VERY cold afternoon in central Bern on Saturday, January 10, when 30 activists took turns kneeling in one of the gray prisoner cages; to representing one of the Gitmo prisoners in orange chained to a column at the entrance to the railway station, holding a sign with name and fate of selected prisoners; to approaching people and asking them to sign our postcard to Obama and a letter taking up the recent urgent action for Omar Khadr.
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Our action in Helsinki went really, really well!! We got over 550 names on the petition-boilersuit and people were very interested in the cage and the topic. Finnish media did lots of coverage and we will be featured on the evening news of virtually every TV channel tonight.
Here you have some photos. There are more on Flickr.
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