[Peace-discuss] Fwd: 21 Arrested, Including Voices' Brian Terrell, for Protest at US Capitol

[Paul Mueth via Peace-discuss]

Code pink not arrested at Cheney's house. 
But large arrest in the people's house. 
Are is that the lobbyists' lobby?

 

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> From: Voices for Creative Nonviolence <info at vcnv.org>
> Date: January 13, 2015 at 4:51:06 PM CST
> To: <paulmueth at yahoo.com>
> Subject: 21 Arrested, Including Voices' Brian Terrell, for Protest at US Capitol
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> 21, including Voices' Brian Terrell, Arrested for Protest at US Capitol
> 
> 
> BREAKING: Witness Against Torture members confront state violence at the Capitol.
> Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_LbxFvBA6s&f
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Guantánamo Is Killing Me
> By Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel
> 
> A prisoner in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
> 
> ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity.
> 
> When I was at home in Yemen, in 2000, a childhood friend told me that in Afghanistan I could do better than the $50 a month I earned in a factory, and support my family.
> 
> Read More
> 
> 
> History’s Most Necessary Writer
> 
> By Luke Nephew
> 
> The hunger that the Samir feels
> Is no longer knowing at his stomach
> It grates over his entire being,
> Shredding his peace into pieces
> Beating salt into his mind’s open wounds
> Most of the time he must focus on just breathing
> In
> And out
> Don’t begin
> To doubt
> Just in and out of now, out of here
> Traveling as far as memory and imagination can take him
> He leaves
> He breathes- this how he escapes from the most powerful military in history
> An innocent man versus marines, sergeants, racist privates,
> His hungry stuttering breadth is the extent of his riot
> Can no longer waste fury on the injustice of his engagement
> He can only breathe in and out the belief this hunger strike will change it,
> He is dying
> His pain enflaming
> His anguish knotting him tighter and tighter
> Today he has become
>      History’s most necessary writer
> 
> Read More
> 
> 
> UPCOMING
> Protest in Chicago
> 
> Thursday,
> January 15
> 4:30 pm
> 
> The Art Institute
> 111 S Michigan Ave
> 
> Guantanamo Bay Prison will enter its 14th year of shameful existence. As force feeding, isolation confinement and torture continue to pervade the daily lives of those detained in the
> that prison, we continue to stand with them in their courageous demand to be freed, and we join our voices with theirs to demand their freedom.
> =====
> Join us after the protest for hot beverages and a speaking event featuring journalist Andy Worthington and attorney Candace Gorman, a defense lawyer for one of the detainees.
> 
> Grace Place
> 637 S Dearborn
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