waiting on 2026

 

war is over if you want it...

 

Check it out below on YouTube. It’s a very moving film, and beautifully animated. It’s only 11 minutes. Share it with friends and family over this holiday season.

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Sean is also using the film to raise money to help kids in conflict zones this holiday season. This has been one of the deadliest times to be a child in this century. Please join me in donating here to War Child to get these kids (in places like Gaza, Lebanon, Sudan) life-saving medical and mental health aid.

musical interlude

 

Glass Houses. continued....

THANK YOU WELLS!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/opinion/trump-obama-drone-strikes-illegal.html

To the Editor:

Jeh C. Johnson’s condemnation of the Trump administration’s recent strikes on boats in the Caribbean appears to be either ironic or lacking in self-awareness.

While Mr. Johnson argues that Congress gave “implicit” authorization for the Obama administration’s targeted killings in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia — a claim many national security lawyers like me strongly disagree with — it is undeniable that this policy opened the door to what is playing out now off the coast of Latin America.

For the nearly quarter-century since the attacks of Sept. 11, the public has been primed and conditioned by a “global war on terror” to accept war without end or geographic limitation. The incineration of human beings outside areas of active hostilities, who have not been identified or tied to specific threats, let alone tried or convicted of crimes, has been normalized.

Secret legal opinions conjured by creative executive branch lawyers have twisted both domestic and international law beyond its breaking point in order to authorize torture and warrantless surveillance, and to make murder and assassination legal so long as, the public is told, the victims were bad guys who posed a threat to the United States.

Let’s be clear: Drug traffickers are not terrorists or combatants, the United States is not at war with any country in Latin America and the extrajudicial killing of civilians is always murder. Mr. Johnson is correct to condemn President Trump’s strikes, but his attempt to distinguish and exculpate himself and his Obama administration colleagues rings hollow.

J. Wells Dixon
New York
The writer is a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Happy Human Rights day... support the Guantanamo survivors fund.

 

The Guantánamo survivors fund helps the men who are still living on the edge following their years of illegal detention and torture. If you can help please do.

Support the Guantanamo Survivors Fund

Whether Guantanamo torture survivors return home or are resettled elsewhere, most face significant hurdles to resuming a normal life.

Your donation helps the Guantanamo Survivors Fund provide short-term support for survivors’ most urgent needs such as medical care, rent and food, prosthetics, and other vital necessities.

Click here to make a donation.

Ice is copying the torture techniques used on the men at Guantanamo

 Remember when it came to light that my country was stuffing men in little boxes? How about the complaints of bright lights being left on all night so that the men couldn't sleep?The lack of medical care? The refusal to allow attorneys to visit?

If all of this sounds familiar it is because it is. This again is some of the torture we subjected the men at Guantanamo to.... and now ICE is reportedly using this same torture techniques on the men and women being held at detention centers here in the U.S. of A. 

Read more here. (I think this is a gift link.)

Yes, these too are war crimes- but war crimes are a way of life in this government of mine.

The Fitch is Back.

 

Washington Crime Report

Roger Fitch Esq    Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Supreme Court's failure to rein in a lawless president ... A credulous and weak chief justice ... Federal judges critical of Supreme Court ... MAGA fortunes changing ... Revealing off-year election results ... Trump's shakedowns and litigation try-ons ... Urging the military onto US citizens ... Roger Fitch emerges from hibernation

“Everything the Trump Administration Does Must be Presumed Irregular” – Norman Eisen

There’s no doubt that crime is a problem in Washington. The current president, convicted criminal Donald Trump, continually breaks the law through Orwellian edicts, purported  “executive orders”, tracts and brain spasms that are by turns laughable, alarming and downright crazy. Most are without authority.

Since Roger Fitch’s June report, many new EOs have been published with flagrantly lawless purposes; (executive) crime persists in Washington, even if Trump himself is immunised from penal consequences.

Many of the fledgling dictator’s oracular rants have been successfully attacked in federal district courts of the US, struck down or enjoined by judges who were appointed by Democrats, Republicans and Trump himself.

Read the rest here.

DING DONG

 An expression many from my generation revert to when someone "bad" dies.  The expression hails back to the movie "the wizard of oz." When the bad witch dies, the munchkins and everyone else bursts into spontaneous singing:

Well today someone bad died. Dick Cheney. In fact, I think it is fair to say that he led the way for trump. Cheney pushed for the unitary executive theory- expanding the power of the president beyond the constitutional limits. Basically turning the presidency into a monarchy.

Cheney also push for the use of torture in the "war on terror." 

As a dear friend said to me today "Cheney died today but thanks to trump, none of us can enjoy it,"

I am trying my best to enjoy it - but yes, we are in such bad times that it is hard to celebrate this particular war criminals death.

I hope to find time to say more about this awful human being in the future.

Stay tuned.

Halloween in Chicago while under siege.

 Halloween is a big holiday in this here country of mine. And it is especially popular in my neighborhood in Chicago. People decorate their houses and the atmosphere is festive as kids and adults dress up in costume. Kids from all over the city come to the neighborhood that I live in. It is safe and lots of good candy passed out.

This year we took precautions to continue keeping the neighborhood as safe as possible. The ICE thugs were all around us in the morning and our neighborhood set up a system with spotters relaying information and armed with whistles to alert everyone. I did my part. The ICE thugs stayed away from our neighborhood but we were just lucky. They were busy terrorizing other neighborhoods.

Back to the Gitmo playbook....again

 It was less than a month ago when I posed the question as to whether the criminals in my government would resort to bounties for capturing supposed drug dealers. Today I learned I was not far off. Seems the criminals are offering bounties for "illegal immigrants." I guess it doesn't matter if they are selling drugs, it only matters if they might be here in this country without the proper paper work.

At least they are not dropping leaflets yet- because with the economic hardship of so many people in this country that could work as well as it did in Afghanistan and Pakistan- and of course it would mean rounding up a lot of people that should never have been rounded up just so people could get the bounty. [This is not to suggest that people without the proper paperwork are legit targets.]

EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS

 These killings have been a factor in the history of this country of mine - killing people suspected of being terrorists was okd by the Bush administration and even by the Obama administration (shame on Barrack). However, our current criminal president has taken these extrajudicial killings to a new level. Clearly the criminals in our current administration have the goal of regime change in Venezuela. Unfortunately we also have a history of just killing people without any process- now we are killing people in boats on the guise that they are trying to bring drugs to the U.S. 

According to the U.N. these actions by my government violate not only Venezuela's sovereignty but also the U.N. charter:

GENEVA - Covert action and threats of using armed force against the Government of Venezuela by the United States violate Venezuela’s sovereignty and the UN Charter, UN experts* said today.

“These actions also violate the fundamental international obligations not to intervene in the domestic affairs or threaten to use armed force against another country,” the experts said. “These moves are an extremely dangerous escalation with grave implications for peace and security in the Caribbean region.”

read more here.

But things get more complicated when the people attacked are not who our government claims they are (not to even mention the impossibility of traveling in a small boat the thousands of miles to reach the U.S.). Two survivors are not Venezuelan: one is from Ecuador and the other from Columbia. oops?

Funny how just last month trump was begging for the nobel peace prize.

Chicago tells the criminal to get the hell out of our city.

 

NO KINGS DAY....WHILE UNDER SEIGE HERE IN CHICAGO

 

and keep an eye on the U.S. activities in and around Venezuela

 While the trump criminals are, on the one hand, busy attacking U.S. cities and doing their best to undermine our democratic republic, do not lose focus on what is going on to our South. 

We have an undeclared war against Venezuela and we are attacking ships in the Caribbean because they might be carrying drugs. The U.S. war on drugs on steroids. 

At the same time we have unleashed the CIA into Venezuela to attempt a coup and now we have prisoners of "war" from our latest ship attack. Since everything that comes out of the mouths of the administration is propaganda we must take everything they say as suspected lies.

Here are a few articles worth exploring:

Exclusive: US Navy warship holding survivors from strike on Caribbean vessel, sources say | Reuters

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-confirms-cia-authorization-venezuela-2025-10-15/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/16/trump-approves-cia-operations-in-venezuela-what-we-know-and-whats-next

Trump’s Disappearing Migrants at Guantánamo - Articles - Welcome to "Close Guantánamo"

CHICAGO UNDER SEIGE

 Ice has been very aggressive in Chicago this past week- targeting peaceful communities and rounding up both citizens and non citizens. Protests have remained strong, well attended and peaceful. I expect a huge crowd at Chicago's "no kings day" event. Unlike the earlier protests (at the federal building and the state court house) this will be held at Grant Park. A space that can accommodate the expected hundred thousand people. We will not be intimidated and we will stand firm. AND WE WILL WIN.

 

THE GUANTANAMO PLAYBOOK AGAIN....

 Bush and his war criminals came up with the idea of classifying people they had no authority to "detain" as "unlawful enemy combatants." And they declared them to be outside of the Geneva conventions and therefore not subject to any rules or laws. That gave them the "permission" to detain those men at Guantanamo. It led to 100's of men being held for literally decades without charge. I wrote about one of these men for Huffington Post almost twenty years ago. Many people in this country still do not understand the grave harm this caused to the U.S.  and the rule of law.

The trump war criminals understand the license that this gave them. Now they are taking it to another step and declaring supposed drug dealers as "unlawful enemy combatants." And killing them- not only to provoke a war - but to give them free reign to round up people here in this country under the guise of the "terrorist drug war."

In the early days of the "war on terror" we dropped leaflets on Afghanistan and Pakistan offering bounties for "terrorists."  Will that be next? Will we offer bounties for turning over supposed drug dealer  "terrorists."

Stay tuned.

Chicago Under Siege

 The ICE thugs are roaming Chicago streets- randomly picking up mostly non white people who don't have proper ID. Chicago has a big and active biking community and this man taunted the ICE thugs--

I think it is fair to say that Chicago will not go quietly in the night....

THE OPPOSITE OF "WOKE" IS ASLEEP

 We are in dangerous times here in the good old U S of A. Unfortunately many people here are not paying attention or just don't care. Next week will be pivotal on many levels and I hope Americans are ready to take to the streets to try to save our democracy.

Stay tuned.

meanwhile:

 

Paper Clip Protest Joyce Vance Sep 20   On Thursday, E. Jean Carroll started it: Paper Clip Protest. “Comely Reader! I suggest we all start wearing the paper clip. Subtler than a red hat, more powerful as a CONNECTION,” she wrote, explaining they were also worn during World War II as a sign of resistance against the Nazis. Norwegian teachers and students wore paper clips to signal their opposition to Nazi occupation. They attached them to their lapels and wore them as jewelry, a symbol of solidarity binding them together as paper clips did with papers. It was a quiet act of defiance, expressing that Norwegians remained united against Nazi rule. Friday, when I signed on to tape the #SistersInLaw Podcast, Jill Wine Banks had a clip delicately attached to the collar of her shirt. It made me smile. In that moment, I knew E. Jean was onto something. Our defiance can and must be loud and public at this point. But the quiet symbol of solidarity on someone’s collar when you walk into a crowded room? Genius. And much better than a red hat. You probably have a paper clip in your desk or junk drawer that you can put on straight away. You can be a subtle signal of support for people who need that right now. You can be a conservation starter. Jill tells me she’s having special paper clips made for the occasion—very fitting for a woman known for wearing pins—and has promised to send me one. Small efforts can bear fruit when we’re all in on them. I’m going to find a paper clip before I head out to the farmers’ market. We’re in this together, Joyce

Lift every voice and sing...

 The Black National Anthem

(h/o to Walt)

LEST WE FORGET

Apartheid police always maintained that the Black Consciousness Movement leader died after accidently hitting his head against his prison cell wall. Now the South African government wants to establish what really happened in "room 619," where Biko spent almost a month in custody naked and shackled in leg irons.

On Friday, the 48th anniversary of the liberation icon's death, the government reopened the inquest into the 1977 case, in what Luxolo Tyali, a spokesman for South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), said was an effort "to address the atrocities of the past and assist in providing closure to the Biko family and society at large."

 

The Talking Dog on 9/11

 

On this day I always turn to my friend the talking dog who was in NYC - not far from where the towers of the WTC once stood.

9.11 + 24.0

And so we’re back. It’s 24 years on. Almost 10% in the life of our relatively young republic, almost 40% of my own life, since that fateful day (it was a Tuesday, and quite sunny, not unlike today in downtown N.Y.C., where I sit a few hundred yards from the WTC, as I did on the day itself; but I digress).

Given how traumatic 2024 was in Stately Dog Manor (I am pleased to report that the Loquacious Pup appears to have come through with a good recovery from her extremely unpleasant illness and has resumed her studies in graduate school), I have very little to say about 2025. Political violence, including but certainly not limited to the improper use of federal military personnel on the streets of American cities, has now been normalized, as has the use of “executive orders” at odds with statutes and the constitution, all while a supposed “opposition party” appears to have disappeared. The murder of a [Republican] political troll is an occasion for national lowering of flags to half mast, unlike the murder of [Democratic] lawmakers and legislative leaders.

READ THE REST HERE.

CHICAGO UNDER SIEGE

 

The Artists who Carried Guantanamo in their hands...

 Find the link below...

Edited by Spencer Ackerman

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SPENCER HERE. Longtime subscribers will remember our occasional contributor Mansoor Adayfi, who spent 15 years caged at Guantánamo Bay. Mansoor recently reconnected with two friends from Guantánamo who were part of the Biden administration's final detainee release. His friends, Moath al-Alwi and Khalid Qassim, were known within the detention camp for their artwork and solidarity. When Mansoor sent me the piece that follows, I wanted to make sure you got to know Moath and Khalid as well. 

The Artists Who Carried Guantánamo in Their Hands

From our friends down under at Justinian

 Fitch claims he is retiring.... I hope not. read the whole Fitch here.

Wither the Republic

Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Justinian in Donald Trump, Murdoch, Roger Fitch Esq, US Supreme Court, US politics

Twenty years of Roger Fitch ... He says this is his last column from Washington ... A brief history of American law and governance since Bush II ... The Roberts' court and reshaping the Constitution ... Hollowing out the Bill of Rights ... Murdoch's malign influence ... Shakedowns and bribes 

 

The American republic that followed the revolution is gone, overthrown, not by a subsequent revolution, but following an election, by the autogolpe of a fascist. 

 

History will record that the coup had the passive assistance of congress and the active support of a supreme court that, especially during its last two terms (here and here), exploited constitutional weaknesses, effectively abandoning the rule of law established by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The federal republic launched by North American colonies in 1789 lasted 236 years, more than any other modern republic. France, which began its initial republic about the same time, is in its Fifth Republic.

The American constitution was novel and superior, despite allowing the continuation of slavery in some states (slavery was at that time countenanced in many nations), and notwithstanding the fact that it was set-up by a non-representative group of white male property-owners.

There are many reasons the Americans' constitution eventually failed: the unplanned party system and bad faith of party members; the rude understanding of its basic tenets by the citizens; and ultimately, by indifferent or (as now) openly hostile supreme courts.

It's fitting that Roger Fitch has appeared in the pages of a legal journal like Justinian, as the decline of the US is closely associated with perverse actions of institutional lawyers. Under George Bush, they were incompetent (e.g, Alberto Gonzales), immoral (e.g, the Torture Memo lawyers) or simply unethical; under Donald Trump they are dedicated lawbreakers.

We've seen it before. This column began in August 2005, at the birth of the Roberts Court, with your columnist writing about the Australian David Hicks and Guantánamo, the illegal offshore detention camp set up by GW Bush in January 2002. 

Guantánamo was and remains a blot on the rule of law, with invented "enemy combatants" and kangaroo military commissions for prosecuting civilian terrorists and, sometimes, lawful belligerents. It prefigured Trump's due process-free migrant detention at Guantánamo and abroad, and officially-sanctioned torture, now outsourced to foreign despots like El Salvador's Nayib Bukele.

Bukele: running Trump's offshore prison

In August of 2005, the supreme court's chosen president, George Bush, had recently obtained a second term in an election he actually won. The supreme court's "swing vote" in decisions, the Reagan-appointed Sandra Day O'Connor, had announced her retirement. O'Connor had been one of two members of the Bush v Gore majority with no ethical conflict, and was the only one of the five majority justices to regret, if not repent, that case.

The present chief justice, John Roberts (then a DC Circuit judge) was being considered for O'Connor's position, and then, when CJ William Rehnquist died, for chief justice. Cynics said he auditioned for appointment through his role in a pending DC Circuit case, one of two Guantánamo Cases of utmost concern to the Bush administration, treating, as they did, the legality of Bush's Guantánamo scheme to imprison newly-invented "enemy combatants" in his figurative "war on terror", men apprehended, not just in Afghanistan, but as far away as the Gambia, and Bosnia, where "combatants" were abducted by the US despite rulings by that country's highest courts. 

Helpfully, Roberts ruled against habeas.

When Roger Fitch took up his pen 20 years ago this month, early in the second Bush administration, he thought the republic had already been fatally injured by the judicial coup of December 12, 2000, the supreme court's unprecedented and partisan intervention on specious grounds in a presidential election in order to install a mediocrity as president, apparently based on the brand he was wearing. 

With that president's appointments to the court, a new majority faction of conservatives coalesced with a  mission to reshape the constitution. It depended largely on altering the precedents previously established by justices of every hue, and entailed constitutional alterations that hollowed-out and subverted some of the most important protections of the Bill of Rights. 

Roberts CJ: Trump's man

Over time, the Roberts Court converted those amendments into tools and playthings of corporations, religious zealots, gun fanatics, and other corporate or religiously-badged special interests. 

The winners have been mostly conservative groups allied with and depending upon the venality of Republicans, whose election successes and fund-raising have been turbocharged, respectively, by the court's Shelby County and Citizens United decisions. The final blow: the Rucho decision greenlighting partisan gerrymanders.

The Republicans used to be the party of the establishment and upper-crust, their voices heard in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, a party that included liberal and independent voices. Sadly, after Eisenhower, and under Richard Nixon's cynical Southern Strategy, the "Grand Old Party" was taken over by special interests who had not previously played the leading role.

It was the time when the old class system in the US began to crumble under the assault of television and popular culture, when the nouveaux riche arrived on the partisan scene, when the polemicist William F Buckley and subversive economist Milton Friedman introduced a new and edgier conservatism where corporations and (conservative) Catholics began to more openly ally with monopolists and the previous untouchables: evangelicals, and the dregs of white southern segregationists. 

The finishing touches to today's Republican party were provided by the malignant influence of Australian blow-in Rupert Murdoch and his fanatical rightwing News Corp, which now owns the Wall Street Journal. 

Murdoch: fanatical

Many of the party participants in the December 2000 Putsch are still around, including two of the Bush v Gore rogue justices (Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas), the present chief justice, John Roberts, and two Republican lawyers who have since joined the court, appointed by Donald Trump.

2000 also entrenched the Republican Party in the rising sunbelt states of Florida and Texas, with the results we have seen, both nationally and in other ex-Confederate states.

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In 2025, the US may have the trappings of a government, but Trump's administration is a giant protection racket, a MAGA mafia presided over by the Capo and chief gangster, the convicted fraudster and felon Donald Trump, supported by a supine congress and neo-fascist popular movement. Cruelty, greed and revenge are the ruling passions of this corrupt, illegitimate regime.

Trump's shakedowns are working. Large "settlements" have been extorted in claims with no legal basis (e.g, foreign tariffs, Big Law threats and media intimidation), and Trump's crude ransom demands are being met by universities (e.g, Columbia and Harvard).

Trump and his Project 2025 minders still have a to-do list, involving destruction of various parts of the US constitution, most notably the separation of powers, by usurping the powers of congress and the judiciary. 

Trump is meanwhile flouting the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments, ignoring Article I's prohibition against bills of attainder, and emasculating civil rights in general.

Roger Fitch bids farewell to all that.

RIP Tom Lehrer

 

RIP Tom Durkin

 Fellow Chicago Guantanamo attorney Tom Durkin, died yesterday. Tom was my friend and a legendary defense attorney in Chicago -- even before he took on Guantanamo cases. You can read more about Tom here.

“We’re having a two-tiered system of justice in the federal criminal courts,” Mr. Durkin told a Sun-Times reporter during Daoud’s case in 2014. “We have cases in the war on terror, which we allow secret proceedings in because it’s so sensitive, and then we have our regular old justice system, and I think that’s … very frightening.”

Rest in peace Tom.

MEN IN CAGES

 I hope the American people are more alarmed about the men in cages today than they were in January 2002: a time when my government opened Guantanamo to the men who were randomly picked up in its "war on terror." Those men, who as we later learned were primarily innocent of any crime, were also put in cages- subjected to the elements and with buckets for toilets. 

Camp X-Ray was ultimately closed when the men were moved to a "more sheltered" prison setting (but similarly inhumane). However, if you look at the photos from Wikipedia (at the link) setting up Camp X Ray was eerily similar to the scene at today's Internment Camp being set up in Florida.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was the umbrella organization for the Guantanamo attorneys. At one point CCR moved to preserve Camp X Ray, so that we here in the U.S. do not forget our inhumanity.

Unfortunately, it seems the trumpers have not forgotten. 

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, these goons are continuing to follow the Guantanamo rule book. One big difference, is that they are now doing this on U.S. soil.  

The only question is, will they get away with this too?

I hope CCR will pick up the mantle and enlist a cadre of attorneys to fight this new battle.

Please donate to CCR NOW.

DC Circuit Court rules against plea deal

 On Friday the federal court of appeals for the district of columbia ruled that the Sec'y of Defense (under Biden) had the authority to scrap the plea deal for the men subject to the military commission and held at Guantanamo (note only 7 of the men currently held at Guantanamo are subject to the military commissions the other 6 men still being held at the base have never been charged with anything!). The deal, which was being negotiated over a period of two years, was for 3 of the men to plead guilty in return for not facing the possibility of a death sentence.  Biden's sec'y of defense Benson, who in theory should have had no say in the deal, tried to cancel it. The military court said Benson had no authority to stop the deal. However, the majority of the Court, in what the dissent called a "stunning" decision, agreed majority that Benson had the authority. It will be interesting to see if the en banc court will take the case.

I discussed the military court's decision here.

Read more about Friday's decision here. 

And on more direct routes from Ireland to the U.S.

 Both of my grandmothers are Irish descendants. My grandmother on my father's side was first generation. Her father fought for Irish independence and fled on the heels of the british. My mother's mother, from all I have gleaned, (long story) was also first generation. This is dedicated to my grandmothers.

THOSE NOT NATIVE BORN ARE IMMIGRANTS

 The U.S. is a nation of immigrants. Both of my grandfathers came to the U.S. from  Canada. My father's father was second generation Canadian after his grandfather came from Ireland to Quebec. i still have family in Quebec. The last song posted here is "Ma Liberte" and sung by a famous Quebecois folk singer. With that song I honor my father's father and that side of the family on their journey to the US from Ireland through Quebec. 

My mother's father's family came to the U.S. on an unknow route from Ireland to Nova Scotia. However, we also know now that my grandfather's roots included roots to Nigeria, Africa. This song is saluted to my Nigerian roots. Of which I am equally proud.

musical interlude

 

The New Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

 "We the billionaires, and our King, in order to deform and sicken our Union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our peoples defenses, undermine our general welfare, and reserve to ourselves and our posterity staggering debt servitude for eternity, do herby instruct the Republicans in Congress to strip 17 million people of their healthcare, increase copays, premiums and deductibles for everyone else, cut 42 million people off of nutritional assistance, increase the national debt by 4 trillion dollars, trash renewable energy systems, increase our electric bills for the carbon kings, all to weaken and destroy the Constitution of the people of these United States of America." 

h/o to congressman Raskin.

Happy 4th of July.

TRUTH Pt. 4 (updated)

 The most dangerous part of this NO LONGER  proposed budget but the actual budget passed by our congress- is not the fact that we will be taking health insurance (and food assistance) away from millions here in this country-- but is the fact that we will officially be turning our country into a police state.  100 Billion dollars is earmarked for ICE. The amount of money being targeted for ICE should make everyone shiver. 

TRUTH Pt. 3

 

My country is as racist as they come and a majority of the voters (who happen to be white) are willing to give up a lot of their freedoms and their health insurance to hurt black and brown people.

TRUTH pt. 2

 The dumbing down of the American people started with Reagan and his cuts to education- with the help of a republican congress.

TRUTH

 

Tomorrow is UN torture awareness day- Give generously to the Guantanamo torture victims...

 

Remember the Guantanamo Survivors     Hello, WAT Community, For the UN Day to Support Victims of Torture -- June 26 -- here are 2 great opportunities:  I.  Sign up for the webinar on Wed June 26 at noon: Guantanamo to CECOT: Abuses by the US Government in the Name of “National Security” II.  Give generously to the Guantanamo Survivors Fund Over the years, we've been amazed at the resilience of Guantanamo survivors as they work to build new lives under challenging circumstances: disabled, stigmatized, and often without documentation in the countries where they have been sent. Their worlds were truly stolen from them.  In June the Guantanamo Survivors Fund raises funds to help ease their struggles.  If you've already donated, thank you!  If you haven't, now is your opportunity to express your solidarity through a generous contribution to GSF, where your entire donation goes directly toward grants.    Donate to GSF   Help GSF raise funds for grants to 4 more Guantanamo survivors by June 26! Donate now!   In peace and solidarity, The WAT Organizing Team   Donate to support our work Please consider a donation to help fund WAT's expenses.  We are completely volunteer-driven and run. We have no paid staff; all of the money you donate goes to funding the work we do together.   Click here to donate to WAT.  WAT centers the men transferred out of Guantanamo through the Guantanamo Survivors Fund (GSF), also volunteer-run. Click here to donate to Guantanamo Survivors Fund. Who we are Witness Against Torture was formed in 2005 when 25 Americans went to Guantánamo Cuba and attempted to visit the detention facility. They then began to organize to shut down Guantánamo, end indefinite detention and torture and call out Islamophobia. We lift up the words of the detainees themselves, bringing them to public spaces they aren't permitted to access. We will carry on our activities until torture is decisively ended, its victims are fully acknowledged, Guantánamo and similar facilities are closed, and those who ordered and committed torture are held to account.   www.witnessagainsttorture.com