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Close Guantanamo! Yes, we can!

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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In Finland despite the snow

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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