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Hello to all our Amnesty blogger friends -
A very happy new year to you. We’re starting 2008 with a bang at Amnesty and I wanted to let you know about it (admittedly at the last minute). Friday 11 January (this Friday!) marks the sixth anniversary of illegal detentions at Guantanamo Bay and to mark it, we are holding a demo outside the US embassy in London, calling on the US to close Guantanamo and either give the 300+ detainees still held there a fair trial or release them.
There will also be demos in Edinburgh and Belfast. We will have hundreds of people outside the embassy dressed in orange boiler suits, with Amnesty staff dressed as US guards –with real guard dogs – shouting instructions at them.
It should be quite an event. We need more people to come along so we have more impact! Last year we had around 400 people and were all over the news; this year we want to be bigger, bolder and louder so please, come along if you can and let people know on your blogs.
All the details are here: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=10226 If you’d like to come, please let Vanessa know at
We did something similar last year and it looked great – have a look at some of the pics at: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/359734.html http://musefulreminiscence.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html
We’re asking people to assemble at Grosvenor Square, London W1 at 9.30am on Friday 11 January, where they’ll be given an orange boiler suit and instructions on how it will all work.
The demo starts at 10.30 and finishes at 11.30. Here’s a link to a map of the location: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=528300&y=180730&z=1&sv=grosvenor+square&st=1&tl=Grosvenor+Square,+W1&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf Hope to see you there, and to read all about it online!
Until next time,
Steve
From Amnesty’s Project Blog team
