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DESCRIPTION:Andy Worthington speaking from London on America's Torture Colony: 19 Years 
 of Guantanamo...It Must Be Closed NOW!  \nWatch live on YouTube 
 https://www.youtube.com/user/RevolutionBooks1 and FaceBook 
 https://www.facebook.com/revbooksnyc/live/\n    \nAndy Worthington, the 
 British journalist and co-founder of Close Guantanamo, will be giving a 
 virtual talk from London this coming Sunday on the history and continuing 
 horror of the Guantanamo detention camp.​\n\nHe will be joined by Shelby 
 Sullivan-Bennis, lawyer for several Guantanamo prisoners and victims of 
 U.S. drone strikes outside of war zones.\n\nIn January 2002, President 
 George W. Bush set up the military prison within the Guantanamo Bay Naval 
 Base in Cuba. The vast majority of those held there from its beginnings 
 were picked up without any incriminating evidence. Guantanamo prison is a 
 shameful icon of torture, including water boarding, and of indefinite 
 detention without charge or trial. It violates basic human rights -- and 
 has been a vital tool of U.S. imperialism’s “wars without end” in the 
 Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of Africa. \n \nAndy sent RB these 
 thoughts: "After four long and horrible years in which Donald Trump 
 essentially sealed Guantanamo shut, the arrival in the White House of Joe 
 Biden offers a glimmer of hope that prisoner releases will resume, and that 
 there will be movement towards the eventual closure of the prison. However, 
 as with Obama, it may well be a struggle to get the administration to 
 prioritize the expenditure of political capital doing what is right and 
 necessary."\n\nGuantanamo has now been open for 19 years! Anyone of 
 conscience must demand it be closed.\n\nAndy Worthington is a writer and 
 musician who, since 2006, has tirelessly exposed the barbarous conditions 
 of Guantanamo and brought to public attention the stories of those who have 
 been detained there and who died there -- and the terrible conditions 
 encountered by those released and scattered to different parts of the 
 world.    \n\nFollow Andy at CloseGuantanamo.org 
 https://www.closeguantanamo.org/\nRead revcom.us AMERICAN CRIME:  The 
 Guantanamo Torture Chamber 
 https://revcom.us/a/518/american-crime-case-number-54-the-us-detention-center-at-guantanamo-en.html\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/13/18839376.php
SUMMARY:Andy Worthington on America's Torture Colony: 19 Years of Guantanamo Online Event
LOCATION:Revolution Books, 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/01/13/18839376.php
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