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Day of Action for Shaker Aamer, Brit left to rot in Guantanamo - Sat 11 Dec

On behalf of Save Shaker Aamer Campaign | 10.11.2010 14:16 | Guantánamo | Anti-racism | Repression | Terror War | South Coast | World

SAVE SHAKER AAMER, SHUT GUANTANAMO AND BAGRAM

British Resident Shaker Aamer has been held without charge or trial for over eight years in Guantanamo in the harshest of conditions. All the other UK Guantanamo detainees have now returned home. They have all suffered years of cruel and inhuman treatment as victims of the US policy of abduction, rendition to torture and indefinite detention in the so-called “war on terror.” Despite President Obama’s executive order to close Guantanamo by January 2010, many detainees, including Shaker, are still being held there without hope of an end to their ordeal. Meanwhile, the CIA prison at Bagram , Afghanistan , is the new Guantanamo . Hundreds of detainees are locked away, tortured and abused in absolute denial of all their human rights. They have been silenced but it is up to us to demand an end to their detention and torture.

On Saturday 11 December 2010 there will be a day of action for Shaker Aamer, and calling for the closure of Guantanamo, Bagram and other secret US prisons and an end to the US practices of "extraordinary rendition" and indefinite detention without charge or trial in the name of the so-called "war on terror". A demo, public meeting and film showing are already planned in Battersea, south London, home to Shaker's British wife and children, the youngest of whom he has never met.

A DAY FOR SHAKER AAMER

SATURDAY 11TH DECEMBER

DEMONSTRATION - PUBLIC MEETING - FILM SCREENING

12 NOON : DEMONSTRATION

Assemble at Nine Elms, Battersea (Ponton Road, London SW8) - site of the new US Embassy, to demand the immediate return of Battersea resident SHAKER AAMER detained in Guantanamo FOR OVER 8 YEARS

12.30 pm : MARCH to Battersea Arts Centre

2pm : PUBLIC MEETING FOR SHAKER AAMER

Grand Hall, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London SW11

Speakers:

MOAZZAM BEGG, KEN LIVINGSTONE, JEREMY CORBYN MP, KATE HUDSON LINDSEY GERMAN, VICTORIA BRITTAIN, ANAS ALTAKRITI, GARETH PEIRCE, YVONNE RIDLEY, WAYMAN BENNETT

4.30pm “OUTSIDE THE LAW-STORIES FROM GUANTANAMO” new film by Spectacle productions and Q & A with

OMAR DEGHAYES, ANDY WORTHINGTON, POLLY NASH

Stalls and displays welcome in the Grand Hall, Battersea Arts Centre

Further details/ book a stall contact Save Shaker Aamer Campaign

call 07756493877 or email  ssac.contact@google.com

JOIN US ON DECEMBER 11TH FOR A DAY FOR SHAKER AAMER

Bring your banners and messages to tie on the fences (at planned new site of US Embassy)

Demand the immediate return of British Resident Shaker Aamer, cleared for release in 2007 and still held in Guantanamo

Demand the end of “extra-ordinary rendition ” and indefinite detention

Demand the closure of Guantanamo and Bagram and all dark sites used to out-source torture and abuse

SAVE SHAKER AAMER, SHUT GUANTANAMO AND BAGRAM

British Resident Shaker Aamer has been held without charge or trial for over eight years in Guantanamo in the harshest of conditions. All the other UK Guantanamo detainees have now returned home. They have all suffered years of cruel and inhuman treatment as victims of the US policy of abduction, rendition to torture and indefinite detention in the so-called “war on terror.” Despite President Obama’s executive order to close Guantanamo by January 2010, many detainees, including Shaker, are still being held there without hope of an end to their ordeal. Meanwhile, the CIA prison at Bagram , Afghanistan , is the new Guantanamo . Hundreds of detainees are locked away, tortured and abused in absolute denial of all their human rights. They have been silenced but it is up to us to demand an end to their detention and torture..

SAVE SHAKER AAMER - SHUT GUANTANAMO & BAGRAM

Stalls and displays welcome in the Grand Hall

Further details/ book a stall contact Save Shaker Aamer Campaign

call 07756493877 or email ssac.contact [at] google.com

Transport to:

DEMONSTRATION:

Assemble Nine Elms (in Ponton Road off Nine Elms Lane , London SW8) - nearest rail/tube Vauxall or Queenstown Rd Battersea Rail. Buses:344 stops in Nine Elms Lane

PUBLIC MEETING:

GRAND HALL, BATTERSEA ART CENTRE:
Buses: 345, 77, 87, 156 and G1 stop on Lavender Hill outside BAC. 35, 37, 39, 49, 170, 219, 239, 295, 319, 337, 344, and C3 buses either terminate at, or go through Clapham Junction. BAC is then a 5/10 minute walk up Lavender Hill on the left hand side. By Underground: closest tube stations to BAC are Clapham Common on the Northern line or Stockwell on the Victoria line. Either of these stations is approximately a 15 minute bus journey away. The 345 bus departs from outside both these stations and travels along Lavender Hill stopping outside BAC. By Train: BAC is a 10 minute journey from either Waterloo or Victoria station. Take train to Clapham Junction, pass through the shopping centre exit and turn left out of the station. BAC is a 5 - 10 minute walk straight up Lavender Hill. Walk up Lavender Hill past ASDA, the Post Office and Magistrate Courts and cross Latchmere Road . BAC is at the top on the left hand side.

SAVE SHAKER AAMER CAMPAIGN
Further information: 07756 493 877 ssac.contact [at] gmail.com

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  1. For the umpteenth time, he's NOT a "Brit" — Fact checker
  2. Since you're so keen on the facts, troll — Annie Citizen