Monday, December 22, 2008

Help is needed for the 100 Days Campaign

 Frida Berrigan is seeking people who are willing to make phone calls on behalf of Witness Against Torture to activists who may be interested in being outside the White House on January 11.  This is the beginning of the 100 Days Campaign, which is calling for an end to torture and the closing of the Guantanamo detention center.  If you are able to make some calls, contact Frida at frida.berrigan@gmail.com.

 

Another need we have is for folks to help us create images on January 9 and 10, and to know that we have a work space and accomodations for anyone who might come to help. I've put out the word to my puppet list, but haven't heard from anyone.  I hope someone is willing to commit or recruit puppetistas? Sue at littleflowercw@wildmail.com.

 

January 11 - Seven Years of Gitmo

The Fast: January 11-20

The Inauguration: January 20

The 100 Days: January 20 April 30

 

JANUARY 11 SEVEN YEARS OF GITMO

DuPont Circle, 12:45pm.

Procession, Puppets & Street Theatre

Launch of the “Fast for Justice.”

 

THE FAST: JANUARY 11-20

We have about 40 folks who have signed up to participate in the fast.

Most will come to DC, and others will be fasting in their local communities.

There will be 2 conference calls for all who plan on participating in the fast:

Monday, December 29 @ 7pm & Tuesday, January 6 - 7pm I will send out the call in info sometime this week to those signed up for the fast, and if you are interested in signing up, you can e-mail

daloisio@riseup.net.

 

THE INAUGURATION

We will break our fast on the morning of the inauguration, and we are in the process of discussing what our inauguration presence should look like. If you are interested in being part of this conversation, let me know at daloisio@riseup.net.

 

THE 100 DAYS: JANUARY 20 APRIL 30

The full calendar with groups that have signed up is below. Our weekly schedule is as follows:

Daily Vigil: 11am-1pm, M-F for the 100 Days.

Lobbying: every Tuesday

Speaker & Film Series: every Monday and Wednesday confirmed speakers include; James Yee, Kathy Kelly, John Dear, S.J.

Creative Action: every Thursday

 

LOGISTICS

Our Logistics team is in the process of finalizing housing and food details for January 11, The Fast, and the 100 Days. All those signed up for J11, The Fast, or any part of the 100 Days will be provided with information soon.

 

WEB / MEDIA

The Website for the campaign is up at www.100dayscampaign.org, and will be updated very soon with the latest information, fliers, press materials, etc… For those of you on Facebook, join the Witness Against Torture group, and sign up for the 100Days Campaign Cause.

 

CALENDAR WITH CONFIRMED GROUPS

Email daloisio@riseup.net to sign up*** Jan 20-25: New York Catholic Worker Jan 26 Feb 7: open Feb 8-12: Worcester Community Feb 13-16: open Feb 16-18: 8th Day Center for Justice, Chicago Feb 20-28: NJ Communities March 1-7: Kairos Community of Chicago March 2-8: Cleveland Community March 2 - 6: College Spring Break March 7 - 15: College Spring Break March 16-20: St. Peter's College March 20-29: Saratoga & Upstate NY Peace Community March 30 - April 3: Southern Life Community April 4-11: open April 9-12: open April 12-18: Ana & Pierce & the Teachers April 19-26: War Resisters League April 27-30: Ohio Community

 

Peace-

Matt

 

***NEW WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE BOOK! - go to http://www.yellowbikepress.com/node/3.

 

Matthew W. Daloisio

daloisio@riseup.net

New York Catholic Worker - Maryhouse

55 East 3rd Street, NY, NY 10003

100 Days to Close Guantanamo & End Torture www.100dayscampaign.org

Witness Against Torture - www.witnesstorture.org

War Resisters League - www.warresisters.org

Friends of 339 www.peacepentagon.org

 

Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218.  Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net

 

"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs

 

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