Time To Tear Down Guantanamo - Your Help Needed

[Kevin Spidel]

Dear DU'ers,

For over five years, the United States has detained nearly 700 men in Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial. Conditions in this facility have declined precipitously in the last year; four men have already died of apparent suicides since its opening. It is time to close this facility and either charge or release the detainees.

To end the flagrant abuses of due process and human rights —it’s time to Tear it Down!

http://www.tearitdown.org

Habeas Corpus—an individual’s right to be heard in court—is the most basic and fundamental protection against arbitrary detention and other human rights abuses. Congress has taken it away from any non-US citizen or lawful permanent resident alien designated by the President as an "enemy combatant." For more than five years, men have languished in Guantánamo, unable to get any substantive review of their detention.

I ask you to become one of hundreds of thousands of Americans who will take the pledge to Tear it Down, to move toward ensuring that the United States reclaims our place as a moral leader for human rights worldwide, and to restore Habeas Corpus.


The U.S. has abandoned this rule of law. We have become a country that can hold people without charge, without hope and without end. I know this is not the America you believe in.


Please, sign the pledge and tear a pixel down: forward it to friends and family and have them tear a pixel down. Let’s “Tear it Down” and restore freedom and human rights today!

http://www.tearitdown.org


In solidarity,

Kevin Spidel
Program Manager, Denounce Torture - Amnesty International, USA

Kevin Spidel is a co-founder of Progressive Vote, and the former Deputy Director of Progressive Democrats of America.

[Kevin Spidel]

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[Kevin Spidel]

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