Dear Chris,
It is up to each and all of us to spread those reliable and good news,
going on all the time, as you rightly wrote.
Abrazos
Azril
👍

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Chris McAlister <
chris.mcalister360@...> wrote:

> Thanks for this Azril.
>
> Such events and activities are going on all over the world all the time
> but the media as we know refuse to acknowledge it.
>
> I wonder how long they can hold out?
>
> Love,
> Chris
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Azril Bacal <bazril@...> wrote:
>
>> Dear Paul and Ramona,
>> Even if it is too early in the morning to say "good morning" on this
>> sunday morning, muchas gracias a mis querid@s Paul y Ramona, for their
>> positive news about the "some wonderful people" still working for our
>> survival in this (our) world - visibly absent in the conventional media,
>> mercileesly and wittingly negative, spreading hopelessness to keep us under
>> control.
>> Gracias, querid@s Paul y Ramona, hoping that you understand that much
>> Spanish 😇
>> Abrazos
>> Azril
>> _________
>>
>> Good morning all,
>>
>> Some positive news for Thanksgiving.  There still are some wonderful
>> people working for our survival in this world, although you would never
>> know about them if you read only the "popular press."
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> *Subject: **[PsySR-humanrights] Fwd: [INTERNAL NYCAT] Fwd: [wat] US
>> Human Rights Advocates Hold Protest at Guantánamo Naval Base. **Reply-To:
>> *psysr-humanrights@...
>>
>> Passing on news about good work being done on Guantanamo and Islamophobia.
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> US Human Rights Advocates Hold Protest at Guantánamo Naval Base
>>
>> Demand Release of Detainees, Closure of the Detention Center and US Base
>>
>> Activists Decry Islamophobia in the US Following Terrorist Attacks
>>
>>
>>
>> As people in the United States enjoys Thanksgiving with their families,
>> 14 human rights activists with Witness Against Torture are in Cuba
>> protesting the ongoing operation of the US prison at Guantánamo Bay.  At
>> an encampment outside the base, the delegation demands that the prison
>> close and that it not simply be moved to North America by holding men
>> without charge or trial in federal prisons.  The group returns November
>> 30 from Guantánamo to Havana, where it will request a meeting with the US
>> ambassador.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Forced-Feeding, Not Feasting at Guantánamo *
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 26), the delegation will hold a vigil outside
>> the base under the banner “Forced-Feeding, Not Feasting at Guantánamo.”  The
>> vigil highlights the continued forced-feeding of hunger striking prisoners,
>> as well as the separation of the detained men from their families.  The
>> US activists are fasting in solidarity with the prisoners.
>>
>>             “While most people in the US are enjoying meals with their
>> families,” says Marie Shebeck, a social worker in Chicago, Illinois, “I am
>> fasting at the site of one of our country’s greatest shames.  If the
>> detained men can’t have a homecoming, we must bring our humanity to them.”
>>
>>             With its vigil, WAT seeks to bridge the distance between
>> their encampment and men like Tariq Ba Odah, detained without charge since
>> 2002. Tariq weighs 74 pounds after years of hunger striking. “Our actions
>> are a simple act of solidarity,” says Chris Knestrick from Cleveland, Ohio.
>> “We are here to say: We know you are suffering; we have come to stand with
>> you.”
>>
>>             “There is real power in showing compassion to Guantanamo
>> prisoners,” says Omar Farah, an attorney representing Tariq Ba Odah. “I saw
>> firsthand when I visited him a week ago the impact of his learning that
>> there are people beyond the prison wires who bear witness to his torment.”
>>
>>
>>
>> *Time is Up: Close Guantánamo Now*
>>
>>
>>
>> Witness Against Torture, which visited the detention camp in 2005, is
>> returning after 10 years. “We are impatient. That is the understatement of
>> the century,” says Frank Lopez, an educator from New York City. “Obama
>> promised to close Guantánamo in 2008, calling it a moral outrage. But there
>> are still 47 prisoners who have been cleared for release.  It’s great
>> that Shaker Aamer and a couple others have been freed recently.  But
>> whole prison must shut down.”
>>
>>             The protestors carry a stern message for President Obama and
>> for those in Congress who have stood in the way of the prison’s closure.
>> “Failing to close Guantánamo will be a terrible stain on Obama’s legacy,”
>> says Jeremy Varon, a Professor of History in New York City. “Those
>> lawmakers who worked to keep scores of innocent men imprisoned will be
>> judged harshly by history.”
>>
>>
>>
>> *Close, Don’t Move Guantánamo*
>>
>>
>>
>> The Obama administration is developing a plan to move the men in
>> Guantánamo to prisons in the US, while detaining some indefinitely without
>> charge or trial. “Simply moving Guantánamo is no solution,” says Helen
>> Schietinger of Washington, D.C.  “That would mean holding on to the
>> barbaric practice of indefinite detention.  Besides, the entire domestic
>> system of ‘correctional’ institutions is a travesty, poisoned by racism.
>> We need to overhaul the US justice system, not add Guantánamo to it.”
>>
>>
>>
>> *Say No to Islamophobia*
>>
>>
>>
>> In the wake of attacks in Paris, Lebanon and Mali, Islamophobia rages in
>> the US, evident in anti-Muslim violence and the bigoted statements of
>> presidential candidates and others in positions of power. Witness Against
>> Torture denounces this surge of xenophobia and hatred. “Our presence at
>> Guantanamo is more important than ever,” says Jerica Arents, a professor
>> from Chicago. “Guantanamo is the bitter legacy of the US’s devastating
>> reaction to 9/11, which has meant the unjust detention and torture of
>> Muslim men. This is a disgrace we can’t repeat.”
>>
>>
>>
>> *Many Faiths, One Message*
>>
>>
>>
>> Two Muslim Americans are on the trip.  “It’s important for me to come to
>> Guantánamo,” says Maha Hilal, Executive Director of the National Coalition
>> to Protect Civil Freedoms, “to protest a ‘war on terror’ that has so
>> callously and indiscriminately targeted Muslims.  My identity as a
>> Muslim obliges me to pursue justice, while my identity as a US citizen
>> demands that I challenge my government’s role in the dehumanization and
>> torture of Muslim prisoners.”
>>
>> The delegation includes Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists,
>> and atheists.  Many members are affiliated with the Catholic Worker
>> movement, whose founder Dorothy Day was praised by Pope Francis during his
>> US visit. “Jesus teaches us that what we do to the least of us, we do to
>> him,” says Frida Berrigan of New London, Connecticut. “As Pope Francis'
>> radical call for compassionate action breathes new life into the Catholic
>> church, we are putting that call into practice by reaching out to the men
>> in Guantánamo.”
>>
>>
>>
>> *US Military Out of Cuba*
>>
>>
>>
>> Witness Against Torture began this trip by participating in the
>> International Seminar for Peace and Abolition of Foreign Military Bases on
>> Nov. 23-25. The conference was held in Guantánamo Province, where the US
>> has controlled a huge swath of territory for more than a century. Witness
>> Against Torture is calling as well for the closure of the entire US Naval
>> base in Cuba. “The military base itself is an unwelcome symbol of US power,
>> which houses a torture chamber,” says Enmanuel Candelario, an artist from
>> the New York.  “No country should endure this breach of its sovereignty.”
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ***
>>
>>
>>
>> The delegation in Cuba will make photographs, video, and statements
>> available to the media during its trip, and be available for phone
>> interviews.  It is supported by solidarity efforts in the United States
>> and the UK, including a rolling fast, a prayer chain, and a vigil at the
>> White House on November 30th and at the US embassy in London on November
>> 26. For solidarity actions, contact: Beth Brockman,
>> <brockman.beth@...>brockman.beth@.... For updates, please
>> visit <http://www.witnesstorture.org/> <http://www.witnesstorture.org/>
>> www.witnesstorture.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Witness Against Torture formed in 2005 when 25 US citizens went to
>> Guantánamo and attempted to visit the detention facility. Back in the
>> United States, the group began to organize more broadly to shut down
>> Guantánamo, working with interfaith, human rights, and grassroots
>> organizations. The group established an annual gathering—with days of
>> fasting, demonstrations, vigils, and direct action —around January 11, the
>> date when the first men were brought to Guantánamo in 2002.  The trip to
>> Guantánamo builds towards the annual fast and vigil in Washington, DC in
>> January 2016.
>>
>>
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