Update on Guantanamo Bay Supreme Court Trial
May 26th, 2008
Tuesday, May 27th – January 11, 2008 Guantanamo Bay Supreme Court trial. Approximately 35 of those people arrested at the Supreme Court in a nonviolent act of civil disobedience on January 11th will go on trial. If you have a few hours on the morning of May 27th to support these individuals, please join a march from the Supreme Court building to the District Court at 500 Indiana Ave., NW, Washington, DC (Indiana Ave. and 5th Streets) and/or be outside the District Court building to join a press conference where there will be continued call to close down Guantanamo (and all other prisons where people are kept indefinitely without rights and where they are subject to torture. For more information, contact Jean Athey (jlathey@hprg.com) or Bob Cooke (cooker@ppnpf.com) or go to http://www.witnesstorture.org/node. For additional background, please read “Guantanamo’s Day in Court” by James Carroll, published in the Boston Globe on May 26, 2008.
