By Adrienne Fong
PROTEST
VP KAMALA HARRIS
END US AID TO ISRAEL! STOP THE GENOCIDE!
Wednesday, June 5
Oakland & San Francisco
OAKLAND
11:30am
Ocean View Dr. & Manchester Dr.
Oakland, CA 94618
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SAN FRANCISCO
12 Noon
Valencia & 19th St.
San Francisco, 94110
Text “Gaza” to 833-633-0604 for updates
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C70jpWyOlvz/
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Close Gitmo Global Vigil
Wednesday, June 5
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Harry Bridges Plaza
(across from the San Francisco Ferry Building)
San Francisco
Please join Amnesty International, World Can’t Wait, and human rights defenders around the globe for the monthly 1st Wednesday of the month Close Guantánamo Global Vigils calling on Biden to release the 16 men cleared for release and stop the ongoing Islamophobic human rights abuses: CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO NOW!!!
June is torture awareness month. Every year, human rights organizations like Amnesty International, Torture Abolition and Survivors, National Religious Campaign Against Torture and other groups recognize June as Torture Awareness Month. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) entered into force on June 26, 1987, that’s why June 26 is marked as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
In October, 11 Yemeni men were set to be released and resettled in Oman. The transfers were suddenly halted after October 7th because of “political optics”
As a reminder, 30 Muslim men are still languishing at Guantánamo, most without charge, none having received a fair trial. Many detainees, like Toffiq al-Bihani and Khalid Qasim were brutally tortured by the U.S. government. Of the eleven men who were about to be released in October, al-Bihani and Qasim though cleared for transfer for years, remain detained indefinitely at the unfathomably expensive forever prison.
See Andy Worthington’s updates & reports: https://www.closeguantanamo.org/
Info: Close Gitmo Global Vigil First Wednesday of the Month! : Indybay
