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December 16, 2005
Fasting in Solidarity with Witness Against Torture
In case you didn’t hear about the Witness Against Torture, please have a look at their website:
witnesstorture.org
Twenty-five Catholic Workers went to Cuba on December 6 to march from Santiago to Guantanamo Bay. They hoped to be allowed inside the prison to observe conditions and bring some comfort to the prisoners, many of whom are hunger striking. Many prisoners have been there for over three years—none have been charged with crimes. The US government has been playing both sides of the fence, treating them like criminal prisoners or military enemy combatants, but in reality, adhering to neither international nor US legal standards for either type of prisoner.
The Witness Against Torture people were not allowed into the prison, once they arrived on December 10, Human Rights Day. So, they vigiled, fasted and prayed outside the prison for three days. Most have returned as of today. I have been fasting in solidarity with them
Tomorrow morning I will be interviewing Jackie Allen-Doucot, one of the 25. She runs the St.Martin de Porres Catholic Worker with her husband Chris (who led the first Voices in the Wilderness delegation I went on). The interview will be aired on Saturday, on WSCA-LP, my local community station. As always, I will be dropping the audio file out on radio4all.net. Search “Joe Public” or “Tom Jackson” and links to all the radio interviews I’ve done will come up. (That includes Kathy Kelly, Denis Halliday, John Perkins, to name a few.)
Posted by Joe Public at December 16, 2005 03:22 AM
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