3 days

Speak-Out at White House on TORTURE, DETENTIONS, and REPRESSION
Tomorrow, Oct 31 at 5 pm, at the World Cant Wait Encampment

Speakers include:

Edget Betru, Lawyer from Center for Constitutional Rights who represents detainees in Guantanamo

Representative from Torture Abolition Survivals Support Coalition International

Johannes Williams, DC lawyer

Kit Gage, First Amendment Foundation*

Survivors of Torture

"YOUR GOVERNMENT is openly torturing people, and justifying it"
"YOUR GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night"
from World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime National Call

In response to a bill that would put limits on U.S. torture techniques, George Bush said that he would veto any limits on torture that would prevent them from carrying on the war on terrorism. As the detainees in Guantanamo continue their hunger strike to protest being held without charges and in conditions not fit for humans, the U.S military is force-feeding the prisoners by sticking feeding tubes down their noses without adequate sanitation or anesthesia.

On October 31 at 5:00 PM, the World Can't Wait encampment has invited lawyers who have been to Guantanamo and represent the detainees, U.S. organizations who have been exposing the conditions and treatment of detainees from Afghanistan to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo, human rights activists, those exposing and opposing the U.S Patriot Act and the depletion of the right to dissent, and individuals who have been subject to political persecution. This will be a powerful statement right at the steps of the White House against these world class injustices being perpetrated by the U.S. government right now. DC activists will be at the speak-out dressed symbolically as detainees and victims of torture.


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Today, Al, a machinist from Detroit showed up at the encampment after driving 17 hours all night from Detroit to find out if the World Can'tWait White House Encampment was Real.

Al said; "I kept hearing hearing about this thing on Air America and was really excited to find the website. But you know, you can't trust everything you read on the internet. All I want to do is drive out the Bush regime and I wanted to find out if the World Can't Wait was really serious. It is so exciting to be here at the White House with the World Cant Wait. I can't wait to drive back to Detroit tonight so I can start working with our chapter in Detroit tomorrow."

Al is going to take an early retirement in December to begin working to Drive Them Out full-time. As we were packinging up this evening, three teenagers working with Americacorps preparing to go down to New Orleans to do disaster relief wanted to know if it was really possible to Drive Them Out. We told them it is already happening across America in over 100 cities. They volunteered 20 hours of flyering to help us get out the word during the final stretch.