MARCH AGAINST TORTURE

Sunday is the 7th anniversary of the interrogation camp at Guantanamo. The last several years, there have been organized protests by Amnesty International, the ACLU, and church groups demanding that it be closed. World Can't Wait has raised a broader demand: "Stop the US torture state," which we continue to push.

This year, there are almost no protests, as most groups are directing their attention at influencing the incoming Obama administration to follow through on a promise to close Guantanamo. Obama will probably do this, over the next two years. But, will he retain the Democratic program of secret rendition, begun under Clinton in 1993? As a column in The New York Times said last month, "A dense bipartisan moral fog surrounds rendition. Former senior Clinton officials can still deny that they sent anyone away in order that he be tortured. Few are as honest and frank as Walt Slocombe, a Clinton undersecretary of defense who once remarked that the difference between Democratic and Republican rendition was that Democrats 'drilled air holes in the boxes.'”

World Can't Wait is not letting this anniversary slide. I'm urging everyone, this weekend to wear orange in protest. Where there are street protests against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, we're going in orange jumpsuits, with the slogan, "From Guantanamo to Gaza, Stop the US war OF terror and torture. The world can't wait!"

TORTURE IS A WAR CRIME!
TORTURE MUST STOP!