NORTH CAROLINA STOP TORTURE NOW
PO Box 12707Raleigh, NC 27605
contact@ncstoptorturenow.org
(919) 834-4478
(eveings and weekends, or messages during business hours)
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TAKE ACTION
Support Hunger Strikers at Guantánamo by Joining a Rolling Fast, or at an Occupation at Duke University
Witness Against Torture is coordinating a "rolling fast" in support of 84 men on hunger strike at the US Prison Camp at Guantánamo Bay.
The vast majority of the 166 men still trapped at Guantánamo have been held for more than 11 years without charge or fair trial. The Obama administration must take swift measures to humanely address the immediate causes of the hunger strike and fulfill its promise to close the Guantánamo detention facility.
In an editorial by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel published by The New York Times on April 15, he pledges:
"I will not eat until they restore my dignity."
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ROLLING FAST, WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE ASKS YOU TO DO THREE THINGS DURING THE DAY YOU SIGN UP TO FAST:
(1) Fast from midnight to midnight; (2) Write to one prisoner at Guantánamoby downloading and sending this letter to a man detained in Guantánamo. Or, send the Arabic version; and (3) Make three phone calls:
(a) Call the White House and insist that President Obama fulfill his promise to close Guantanamo: 202-456-1111, 202-456-1414 or submit a comment online; (b) Call the U.S. Southern Command to decry the conditions at Guantanamo: 305-437-1213; and (c) Call the Department of Defense: 703-571-3343
Talking points: “I am concerned about the expanding hunger strike and I appreciate General Kelly’s (Southcom Commander) recent acknowledgment before Congress of the “devastating” situation at Guantanamo. We are concerned over the costs associated, both financially and what it does to America’s image, and concerned about the repercussions for our troops and what it means to ask young kids to force feed people we admit are innocent. I ask that, in the face of the failure of our elected officials to close Guantanamo, our Military will refuse to participate in force feedings.”
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Locally, students from Duke University and the University of North Carolina are also demonstrating in solidarity with the escalating hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.
Construction of a symbolic prison on the statue quad in front of Duke Chapel began April 22, at 4 p.m.
The goal is for the space will be occupied indefinitely as the students petition for the torture facility's closing. A signup sheet to help out in that capacity is here
DONATE
NCSTN is an entirely grassroots effort.
We have no office and no paid staff.
Volunteers coordinate our efforts, maintain this Web site, develop and maintain contacts with allies, answer phone calls and e-mail inquiries.
Accordingly, donations in support of NCSTN's work are most welcome, make your check payable to:
North Carolina Stop Torture Now
and mail to:
PO Box 12707
Raleigh, NC 27605
Questions:
contact@ncstoptorturenow.org
2-4 p.m., Sunday, May 19, 2013
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh
3313 Wade Avenue
Endorse the Call for a North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture
and
Urge Attorney General Roy Cooper, District Attorney Susan Doyle, and Johnston County Sheriff Steve Bizzell to investigate Aero Contractors.
Simply complete and submit the form below.
Organizational and Individual Endorsements Sought
on Call for North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture
The next steps in seeking accountability for our state's role in extraordinary rendition have begun and your support is needed. Four members of North Carolina Stop Torture Now represent the group on the Organizing Committee for a North Carolina Commission of Inquiry on Torture. For Details. Please get in touch if your organization recognizes the need for formal examination of North Carolina's role in extraordinary rendition and is ready to commit the time and energy of identified individuals to:
The task of building a broad coalition of organizations and opinion-leaders from around the state and among a diverstiy of political viewpoints, communities of faith, ethnic identity, and socio-economic strata will require sustained effort. We are convinced, though, that working to achieve accountability is essential. Our safety, our national ideals, and the integrity of the men and women who risk their lives to defend them depend on it.Present, explain and advocate on behalf of the call to other organizations; and
To receive, discuss and respond to the Commission's report; or
To help build a seed fund to support the staff essential to launch and sustain the work of the commission.
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