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    MEDIA ADVISORY: Activists Call on DOJ to End Widespread Teargas Torture in US Prisons before Trump Inauguration
    January 6, 2017
    MEDIA ADVISORY For immediate release 1/6/17 Conect: Ali Issa, Organizer, War Resisters League Cell: (718)310-9968 ali [at] warresisters.org () warresisters.org   Activists Call on DOJ to End Widespread Teargas Torture in US Prisons before Trump Inauguration   New testimony from 21 states – backed by a petition signed by 13,000 – reveals the breadth of…
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    Gloria Williams, ¡presente!
    March 9, 2016
    Gloria Williams, 1950-2016 Gloria Williams, longtime WRL stalwart and former National Committee member, writer, journalist, and videographer, committed pacifist and indefatigable fighter for social justice, died February 29 in Iowa City after a long illness. She was 65.   Gloria wrote about the threat of genetically engineered food and about the detainees at Guantanamo. She…
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    Terrorism and Trump: New Challenges for Social Justice Organizations
    January 4, 2016
    by Bob Wing and Max Elbaum originally published on Znet, 12.23.15 “The wake-up call is right there in the front page headline of the Dec. 11 New York Times: ‘Poll Has Trump Gaining Ground on Terror Fear.’ [ . . . ] Understand that the fight against racism cannot be won just by struggling around domestic…
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    Sojourn to Justice: Action Report from Guantanamo
    December 9, 2015
      From November 22nd through December 1st, a delegation of 14 members of Witness Against Torture–WRLs sibiling organization including three members of WRL–returned to Cuba and brought their demand to shutdown Guantanamo Bay straight to the U.S. naval base and detention center. It’s hard to believe that just 10 years ago, 25 people walked to…
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    Witness Against Torture Marches to Guantánamo
    January 1, 2006
    Nonviolent Activist, January – February 2006 Carrying outrage, compassion, and tourist visas, 25 U.S. activists began an 80-mile-march from Santiago, Cuba, on December 5, in the hopes reaching the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay and visiting prisoners detained there under horrific conditions. The activists, drawn largely from Catholic Worker communities across the United States,…
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