Close Guantánamo

Hey, remember Guantánamo? The US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba where hundreds of "war on terror" detainees were delivered in January 2002, hooded and shackled?

There was a bit of an uproar when the news first leaked, but although Guantánamo doesn't make it into the media spotlight very often anymore, there are still hundreds of people there, detained indefintely without a fair trial. Bush has actually finally admitted that the US has been resorting to secret detentions and enforced disappearances, which are crimes under international law. Wow. I imagine that fifty years from now, people will shake their heads, bewildered at how the citizens of the world could have allowed this facility to continue to operate.

If you want to hear a little more of the debate about Guantánamo, listen to this segment from the Diane Rehm Show, which includes a phone-in. Guest host Susan Page talks with Carol Elder Bruce (an attorney in private practice currently representing two Guantanamo prisoners) and John Bellinger (Legal Adviser to the US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice).

Please take a minute to join the Amnesty International campaign to close Guantánamo. Just one minute to make a difference.




"I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." (Helen Keller)