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

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No Surprises Here

 Seems our mentally ill president is reconsidering (once again) whether it makes sense to use Guantanamo 

as a detention location for undocumented individuals. 

"Last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt labeled reports that the administration planned to send thousands of migrants, including nationals from Western European countries, to the controversial detention facility at Guantánamo Bay as “fake news.”"

Today (or maybe yesterday, it is not clear), a handful of Haitians that were actually held at Guantanamo,

were sent back to Haiti.

Read more here.