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Two Boston DemonstrationsJanuary 11, 2007 Featuring Veteran and Historian Howard Zinn, Guantanamo Attorney Jeffrey Gleason, Amnesty International's Josh Rubenstein and other patriotic Americans who won't sit still as our nation is attacked from within...by our Government. |
January 11 in Washington D.C. |
Stop The Troop Surge
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Shut Down Guantanamo
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Copley speakers are Introduced by Amy Hendrickson of Brookline Peace Works
492 Cafe's famous SoniKart, a self-powered mobile sound system, amplified and recorded the voices of Historian Howard Zinn, Amnesty International's Joshua Rubenstein, Guantanamo Victim Attorney Jeffrey Gleason, and lots of other folks. The recordings posted below begin at Park Street Station at around 4:30.
The demo was called by The Stop The Wars Coalition, United for Justice with Peace, Move on and other organizations in response to the Idiot Emperor's escalation. The goal has become one of lobbying Democrats to defund the escalation, and to force an order for withdrawal.
MBTA Police keeping the nearby transit station's entrances clearFormer MBTA Police Chief Tom O'Loughlin explained to me in an interview in 2000, that this is the point of their presence. However, in 2002, Officer Brian Harer took it upon himself to forbid my photography of a demonstration unilaterally for the second time. He abused his authority, committing several crimes in the process, hence, work now includes keeping tabs on the often misguided and pooly trained MBTA Police. (more here ...and here) -Freeman Z |
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Mark Lipman sang his "Dear Mister President."The SoniKart allows for multipe microphones and central control, facilitating live verbal exchanges appropriate for a people's movement. This fellow has appeared at another rally on Boston Common for which 492 Cafe provided sound amplification and recording services. "Drive out The Bush Regime" The SoniKart was in police hands at the time, so we used the massive 24 channel console and recorded it in multichannel, with ProTools. Even the audience was recorded, in stereo.
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The Stop The Wars Coalition table offered materials including flyers for upcoming demonstrations and Peacework Magazine, to which 492 Cafe's Freeman Z has contributed photographs (From demonstrations in Quebec City and Boston) as well as quotes. |
The Militant, published by the Socialist Workers PartyMany Socialists and Communists see Capitalism as the root problem of American social ills manifested through greed and imperialism. Imagine that.
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George and Owen, from revolution Books of Harvard Square |
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Call to Action- Around 500 people from 35 countries continue to be held without charge or trial as of January 2006, four years after the Bush administration began locking up detainees at Guantanamo Bay. |
The ProtestProtestors marched from the earlier event on Boston Common to Copley Square. The SoniKart was quickly prepared for service. The 20" diameter horn provided a rich, mellow sound, and two smaller speakers filled out the remainder of the protest area. Sofia Jarrin-Thomas of WMFO Radio at Tufts University, also recorded the event. We heard from Attorney Jeffrey Gleason of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who spoke on his experiences defending so-called Enemy Combatants, a term he describes as "legally fictitious." |
"I'm a litigator here in Boston and I have been working on representing six men detained in Guantanamo Bay Cuba since January 20, 2002." "I had the opportunity to go down to the base. I met with these guys. I looked into their eyes. I have spoken with them and have spoken extensively with their families" "Guantanamo represents the use of torture in dealing with detainees. It represents the unchecked usurpation of power by the executive. It represents great injustice and it needs to close..." -Attorney Jeff Gleason |
Josh Rubenstein of Amnesty International |
"Torture is illegal, it's illegal under U.S. law, it's illegal under international law. And whoever uses torture, whoever supervises the use of torture, whoever orders the use of torture is breaking the law. And we are a country of laws and no one is above the law. And when the Bush administration decided that the prohibition against torture should be diluted, in Afghanistan, in Abu Ghraib, in Guantanamo, they were breaking the law..." "Guantanamo needs to be closed and the individuals there need to be charged or released. That's what we expect for every other individual in this country and we should expect no less for prisoners our government is holding today in Guantanamo..." -Josh Rubenstein |
Three hundred hooded people in orange suits marched through the streets of Washington D.C. and into the Supreme Court. At least 90 people were arrested at the Federal Court and submitted the names of Guantanamo detainees to the police instead of their own, as a symbolic and strategic move to pressure the government to re-adopt habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainees and all prisoners in the U.S. "war on terror."
In Cuba, a 15-person delegation including former prisoners and family members of Guantanamo detainees, got as close as they were able to the detention camp and demanded it be immediately shut down, asking for fair trials, the overturn the Military Commissions Act, and for government officials to restore habeas corpus. (Sofia Jarrin-Thomas for Indymedia. Read the article Here)
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Thanks to Sofia Jarrin-Thomas for transcribing the quotes provided above. Sofia also wrote the linked Indymedia article and recorded the Copley event. that recording is available as a link from the Indymedia article. |
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