Guantanamo

Earlier this year, on the sixth anniversary of the day that the first group of prisoners were incarcerated at the Guantanamo Bay camp in 2002, a couple hundred protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Thirty-four of them then walked up the steps and engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience. They were arrested, and when that happened they did not provide the Capitol Police their "given" names but rather the names of individuals who have been held at Guantanamo for years and who have never received trial. They sought to be names and faces for the nameless and faceless.

January 11, 2008 Shut Down Guantanamo

Two great news items for peace activists came from the Pacific Northwest this past weekend, just as I was preparing to attend a Veteran's Day event organized by the Granny Peace Brigade. One story, shared around our peace community, was that a judge in Washington State had struck a major blow against the U.S. military's effort to re-try courageous Lt. Ehren Watada.