www.witnesstorture.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\nOn Wednesday, January 11, 2012, ICUJP is organizing two actions to protest Guant\u00e1namo: <\/p>\n
9 AM Vigil and Tableau, 10 AM Press Conference; Downtown LA Federal Building (Temple and Los Angeles streets);<\/p>\n
4 – 5:30 PM Rally and Vigil; Westwood Federal Building (Wilshire and Veteran)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The US government is getting ready to free 5 men, reportedly Taliban leaders, held in Guant\u00e1namo Bay prison in Cuba in exchange for bringing the Taliban into peace talks over the on-going Afghanistan war. Guant\u00e1namo, or Gitmo, as it’s often called, symbolized the worst excesses of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy. Ten years ago this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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The US government is getting ready to free 5 men, reportedly Taliban leaders, held in Guant\u00e1namo Bay prison in Cuba in exchange for bringing the Taliban into peace talks over the on-going Afghanistan war. Guant\u00e1namo, or Gitmo, as it’s often called, symbolized the worst excesses of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy. Ten years ago this Wednesday, eleven men were brought to the prison – the first contingent of detainees that enabled the government to deny basic legal and human rights to prisoners of war on the basis that they were not on American soil. A total of 775 men have passed through the prison – some of them children – and been subjected to harsh interrogation techniques: a euphemism for torture techniques like water boarding. Over the years, many went on hunger strike to protest their conditions and their on-going imprisonment. Hundreds attempted suicide, and at least 4 succeeded. One of President Obama’s first acts after taking office in 2009, was to announce that the Guant\u00e1namo prison would be shut down. However, he has yet to fulfill that promise. Today, 171 men remain at Guant\u00e1namo. Many of them remain because no nation will now accept them. <\/p>\n