Clarification of Thought Friday, May 3rd @ 7:30pm

Join us this Friday for our next Clarification of Thought event celebrating 80 years of the Catholic Worker Movement and the 45th Anniversary of Viva House Catholic Worker of Baltimore, MD with guest speakers Willa Bickham & Brendan Walsh of Viva House.  Click here for more details about the event!

May 3rd Vigil to Support Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

Vigil at White House to Support the Guantanamo Hunger Strikers–Close Guantanamo & End Indefinite Detention

 

100 Prisoners on Hunger Strike, 21 Force Fed, 5 Hospitalized

When: Friday, May 3, 2013, Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Where: White House  (North Side on Pennsylvania Ave.)

 

“Where is the world to save us from torture? Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? Where is the world to save the hunger strikers?”— Adnan Latif, Yemeni Guantanamo prisoner held for ten years without ever having been charged with a crime and cleared for release on four separate occasions, found dead in his cell on September 8, 2012.

 Right now, the men detained at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo are engaged in a large-scale hunger strike, which began in early February. Two weeks ago guards used excessive force and rubber bullets onprisoners who resisted being forcibly moved from communal to individual cells. This was done in an attempt to stop the hunger strike. The hunger strike has now escalated and, as of April 30, lawyers for the prisoners say over 100 are now on a hunger strike, with about one-fifth of the prisoners  being  force fed.

 

The vast majority of the 166 men have been held for more than 11 years without any charge or fair trial, with no end to their detention in sight. The Obama administration must take immediate measures to address the causes of the hunger strike and fulfill its promise to close Guantánamo 

without further delay. And we demand an end to the illegal policy of indefinite detention.

 

Raise your voice! Please join this important vigil to help save the lives of the prisoners.

 

Sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker and Witness Against Torture

(For more info about the campaign to Close Guantanamo and End Torture and Indefinite Detention see www.witnesstorture.org.)

The Prophets of Oak Ridge

Transform Now Plowshares in Washington Post

“They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore” Isaiah 2:4