Filed under: ethical, politics | Tags: guantamano, human rights, human_rights, politics
In 2006, the UN Human Rights Commission called on the US government to shut down Guantánamo Bay.
Two years after the UN report and six years after the first prisoners arrived at Guantánamo, there are still 290 prisoners awaiting trial and/or release.
To date, only one of the nearly 800 prisoners at Guantánamo has been tried. Of those 800 prisoners, only 14% were captured by US military and coalition forces – the remaining 86% were brought to US custody through awarded bounty.
After six years of trumping civil liberties under habeus corpus and the Geneva Convention, its time to demand to shut down Guantánamo!
Sign a petition here or join in the protests and demonstrate with Amnesty outside the US Embassy in London, or if you can’t make that then Wear Orange on January 11th!
Wherever you are on January 11th, we encourage you to wear orange to raise public awareness and strengthen the movement to demand an end to torture and indefinite detention. Consider wearing Witness Against Torture’s Orange “Shut Down Guantánamo” t-shirts, an ACLU arm band, or even an orange jump suit.
Filed under: documentary | Tags: director, documentary, human rights, human_rights, indigenous, peak oil
idocs…create the change
Here is a blog from a friend of mine. Ajay Rai. Check out his website if you are interested in making films that can effect social change, or if you just want to think about change…
CRUDE
The new documentary from director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek (One Day In September)
