3 opportunities to end torture!
I.STAND UP TO:CLOSE GUANTANAMO DEMAND AN END TO TORTURE RESTORE HABEAS CORPUS
Friday January 11, 2008
CANDLELIGHT VIGIL
6 - 7 PM
McMurran Hall Lawn German St. Shepherdstown
Join others worldwide to mark the 6th anniversary since the first person was thrown into Guantanamo detention facility.
If possible, wear orange and bring a candle.
Organized by Amnesty International Upper Potomac Chapter (a student-community organization) and the Eastern Panhandle ACLU.
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II. (Earlier in the day, carpool from Eastern Panhandle for 11 AM protest on Mall in Washington, DC. Link.)
III.
You can take action today.
EMAIL YOUR SENATORS
Background
• In December, the House voted for an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization conference report that would restrict every agency and US agent, even the CIA, to the interrogation techniques permitted by the Army Field Manual.
• The manual specifically prohibits several of the techniques alleged to have been used by the CIA in secret prisons, including waterboarding, sexual humiliation and the use of dogs.
• With the use of waterboarding by the CIA being publicly confirmed, and the refusal of the Attorney General to state that simulated drowning is torture, it is imperative that the Senate vote for this amendment in order to stop the use of torture by any US agent, anywhere in the world.
Go to here to write your Senator.
If you're from WV: Because both Senators Byrd and Rockefeller have been working hard on the issue, if you're from WV, use your own words
to modify the message to thank our senators for all their efforts to end torture. (As Chair of the Senator Intelligence Committee, Senator Rockefeller is in a position of influence.)
• Urge them to do all they can to ensure that the Intelligence Authorization conference report amendment, providing for uniform interrogation standards for anyone in US custody or control, anywhere in the world, regardless of which agency is holding them, be part of the final bill.
"Silence is the voice of complicity." - Latin proverb
