Shut Down Gitmo! First ever protest march on USSOUTHCOM Hdq
by Peter Graves-Goodman Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 at 4:10 AM
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On Friday, January 11th, for the first time ever, activist marched on the United States Southern Command Headquarters of the US military, known as USSOUTHCOM. SOUTHCOM is located right in our own back yard, Doral Florida. It is the military's command and control facility for all of Central and South America as well as the Caribbean (including Guantanamo). Friday January 11th marked the 6th anniversary of the first detainees at GITMO, detainees who have been held with out due process of law and who have been tortured. The protesters message, “It’s time to put an end to the American Gulag and shut it down.”

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The US government maintains that the detanees at Guantanamo are dangerous terrorists, but the real truth is being told by activists such as Col Ann Wright, Professor Mark Falkoff.

Here is an example:

- Of the 770 men that have been sent to Guantanamo, 440 have been sent home or to third countries. Of that 10 have been charged with a crime. Only 1 has been convicted. And that was Australian David Hicks, who will serve only 9 months. His legal team attributed his acceptance of his guilty plea bargain to his desperation for release from Guantanamo.

- Only 5% were captured on the battlefield. The rest were bought for thousands of dollars. People were mis-identified as being Al Quaeda or Taliban only so informants could collect the US military rewards.

- Only 8% have been accused of having any Al Quaeda affiliation. One was picked up in Cairo, another in a university dorm.

- And of the men in Guantanamo, the vast majority have been charged with NO CRIME!!!

- 770 men have been sent to Guantanamo, 440 have been sent home or to third countries. The US govn't refuses to admit it has made any mistakes. If these men are really the worst of the worst -- as Cheney said, these men had to be blindfolded and gagged for the 20+hour plane ride to Gitmo so they wouldn't gnaw through the wires, how is it that they are no longer a danger?


* Read Professor Marc Falkoff of Northern Illinois University blog article (Behind the Scenes at Guantanamo Bay) at
http://allierambles.blogspot.com/2007/12/behind-scenes-at-guantanamo-bay-its-not.html

* Read what Col Ann Wright has to say about Guantanamo detainees in her Truthout article “Five years of Infamy: Close Guantanamo!” at
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/67/24674

* Want to know more about Col Ann Wright go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Wright

* Read Carol Rosenberg's article "Doral protesters target Guantánamo"
http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2008/01/10166_comment.php#10186

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CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin, Camilo Mejia-IVAW, Col. Ann Wright
by pggoodman Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 at 4:10 AM
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Sam Feldman - Vets for Peace
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Jolly Jack- SFPJ, Camilo Mejia- IVAW, Nancy Mancias- Code Pink SF
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Random Photo
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Hillary Keyes- Code Pink & Warren Hoskins- Miami for Peace
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Col. Ann Wright & Linda Belgrave
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Julie Gouldener-Emerge
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Mr. Clucky & Mark Buckley
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Rae Newman
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Random Photo
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Random Photo
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March on SOUTHCOM
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Protestors at SOUTHCOM
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Warren Hoskins (Miami for Peace) speaking to protestors
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Stand for Peace
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Amnysty
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Vets for Peace
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Meet with SOUTHCOM
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World Peace
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