National on-line Guant ánamo teach-in! 10-6pm Eastern

From: abeltranjurisdr@aol.com
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 07:46:04 -0400
Subject: {Disarmed} [tupocc] Today: National on-line Guant ánamo teach-in! 10-6pm Eastern

 

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"Guantánamo: How Should We Respond?"

 

Tomorrow, at 200 law schools, universities and other locations; and you can also view & hear it directly online:

www.guantanamoteachin.com. More resources and info are also available at that site.

 

10am-6pm Eastern

 

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Stand Up on October 15 & 16: Support Lynne Stewart!

 

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 Friends & Americans-- 
 
Throughout American history, a number of attorneys have placed people's needs and human rights before personal desire for wealth and position. Most toil in obscurity, defending the indigent in criminal cases that few lawyers care to touch, others support mothers and children in the least glamorous of civil cases, helping them to remain in their homes and to put food on the table. 
 
A few, like the late Bill Kunstler, rise to fame, devote themselves to people's movements, and live their later days, with no lack of stress, but in the comfort of family and friends. 
 
Rarely does an attorney find herself in a controversy as notorious as that of her best known clients; rarely does a grandmother, suffering from cancer, disbarred from her livelihood, ever-vigilant for the rights of all of us, face the fate of a political prisoner, face the abyss of the American (could it happen here?) gulag. 
 
I do not think that I overstate the case when I make the claim that one school-teacher-turned-lawyer has become exemplary in the history of people's movements for her singular dedication to the rule of law, democratic principles, and the human rights of the powerless, poor and reviled. 
 
Lynne Stewart is not now, nor has she ever been, a terrorist. 
 
Lynne Stewart has been tried and convicted for her sheroic devotion to the American Constitution. 
 
Lynne Stewart has been tried and convicted by a government that has relentlessly transferred power from the American people to a seemingly conscienceless coterie of neo-cons, con-artists and enablers (nominal dissenters better known for being nowhere when we need them). 
 
Please read "The Case of Lynne Stewart" by Heidi Boghosian and Ian Head, a publication of the National Lawyers Guild, and visit the website, www.lynnestewart.org. Please investigate this case further on your own. I think that you will be convinced that Lynne's case is a watershed in our ongoing struggle for human rights. 
 
It is not for Lynne alone that I ask you to stand up, but for yourself and for your friends and for all those who stand up to injustices known and unimaginable. After all, who is going to defend all of us? 
 
Please prioritize your schedule for Sunday, October 15 and Monday, October 16. Please add the following information to your calendar. 
 
SUNDAY, October 15, 4:00 PM 

RALLY AND TRIBUTE 

Riverside Church, between 120 & 122nd Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan 
(#1 or 9 to 125th Street)

On the eve of the sentencing, show your support and love for Lynne Stewart. A tribute to her legal career and to her political life. Speakers and Entertainment include Vinie Burrows, Michael Warren, Raging Grannies, Peace Grannies, Howie Hawkins, Michael Smith, Michael Ratner, Professor Louie, Ralph Shoeman, Jeff Mackler, Black Waxx, and more! 
 
MONDAY, October 16, 8:00 AM

RALLY AND SENTENCING 

Tom Paine Park (Foley Square) Centre St and Worth St, Manhattan 
(#6, J, M to Brooklyn Bridge or Chambers Street)

Rally to accompany Lynne Stewart to Court. Demonstrate your support. You cannot be too "busy" for this historic moment. One to tell your grandchildren about. Crucial to the atmosphere of outraged citizenry we need. Be there for the early rally. Go with Lynne to court. If there's no room... rally outside the courthouse in the square. 

 
Thank you. 
 
--zool 
 
Paul H. Zulkowitz 
The Art & Politics of Justice & Joy 
1068 Highland Place 
Woodmere NY 11598 
zoolTheArtandPolitics@hotmail.com 
646-549-1615

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/03/141259

 

Democracy Now!

 

Legal Group Challenges Military Commissions Act

The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed the first legal challenge to the new Military Commissions Act passed by Congress last week. The legal group has filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of 25 detainees held at Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan. The petition demands that the men be released or be charged with a crime. Some of the detainees have been held for years without ever receiving a hearing. Under the new bill - prisoners have no right to challenge their detention. On Monday, Bill Goodman, the legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, warned about the dangers of the new law.

• Bill Goodman: "No one can be held indefinitely, and if they are, they have a right to go in front of a magistrate or a judge and demand that the judge make a determination as to whether they're charged with a crime and whether there's any real evidence to hold them. And if there is not, the magistrate, the judge, can order the king, the police, the FBI, or anyone, or George W. Bush, the President of the United States, to let him go. That's what habeas corpus is. Without it, we are virtually slaves to a police state."

Bill Goodman spoke last night in New York at a rally sponsored by the group World Can't Wait. On Thursday, World Can't Wait is organizing emergency protests in over 170 towns and cities to condemn the government's sanctioning of torture.

 

 

 

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for local  World Can't Wait   events

 

see - http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2418&_event=14

 

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World Can't Wait!

 

Come join in this dynamic protest and march!!!

 

Thursday, October 5, at 12:00 p.m.

 

 

 

Gather at Noon at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza- E. 47th St. btwn 1st & 2nd Ave. (Across from UN)

 

Then March to Union Square

 

 

 

courtesy - Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
339 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10012
www.wilpfnymetro.org

 

 

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Subject: GREAT video short on "Yellow Ribbons, Iraq, Iran..."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8
 

 

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Democracy Now!

 

http://www.democracynow.org/

 

First Member of SHAC 7 Heads to Jail for Three Year Sentence

 

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AWOL Purple Heart Iraq Veteran Surrenders at Fort Knox

...a US soldier who spent nearly two years in Canada rather than re-deploy to Iraq turned himself in Tuesday at Fort Knox in Kentucky. Specialist Darrell Anderson, a Purple Heart Veteran, just returned from Canada this week. At a news conference shortly before his surrender, Anderson said: " I feel that by resisting I made up for the things I did in Iraq. I feel I made up for the sins I committed in this war." He'll be held at Fort Knox where he could face charges.

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/29/150217&mode=thread&tid=25

 

Venezuela Asks UN Security Council to Take Up Carriles Extradition

Venezuela is pleading for international help in its bid to extradite a former CIA operative wanted for the killing dozens of people. On Thursday, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said his government has asked the UN Security Council to intervene in the case of Luis Posada Carriles. Carriles is wanted for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger flight that killed seventy three people. He's been detained in the United States after illegally entering last year. Carriles could soon be freed but the Bush administration says it won't send him back to Cuba or Venezuela.

 

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/21/1538247&mode=thread&tid=25

 

Thirty Years After the Assassination of Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier, His Son Francisco is Still Seeking Justice
Thursday, September 21st, 2006

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