[Peace-discuss] Protesters Demand Guantanamo Shutdown

[David Green]

This gives me a chance to highly recommend the DVD
"Heir to an Execution," directed by another one of the
Rosenberg grandchildren. It's at That's
Rentertainment.

David Green

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> [More uncomfortable lessons being drawn from the
> celebration
> of American freedom. --CGE]
> 
>    Protesters Demand Guantanamo Shutdown
>    Mon Jul 4, 6:59 PM ET
> 
> NEW YORK - Feminist author Gloria Steinem on Monday
> joined
> about 200 protesters to demand the closure of the
> U.S.
> detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, saying holding
> prisoners
> indefinitely without charging them violates the
> values upon
> which the United States was founded.
> 
> Steinem compared Guantanamo to the kind of
> autocratic rule
> early colonists were trying to flee.
> 
> "They came to escape the very things — detention
> without due
> process, bias, a religious government ... that we
> protest
> today," Steinem said.
> 
> Some detainees have been held at the camp in Cuba
> for more
> than three years without being charged. The U.S.
> government
> contends the prisoners are enemy combatants and are
> not
> entitled to constitutional protections.
> 
> Rachel Meeropol, a lawyer with the Center for
> Constitutional
> Rights that has filed lawsuits in federal court
> challenging
> the detentions, also addressed the crowd.
> 
> The Bush administration "has claimed the power to
> kidnap men
> anywhere in the world and hold them, interrogate
> them, detain
> them without any process of law," said Meeropol, the
> granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who
> were executed
> in 1953 after being convicted of conspiring to
> commit
> espionage for the Soviet Union.
> > _______________________________________________
> Peace-discuss mailing list
> Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>
http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/peace-discuss
> 



		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! Mail 
Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: 
http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html