Guantanamo Action

Peavey Plaza, Minneapolis. May 5-6, 2006

At around noon on Friday, May 5, 2006, Laura Winton entered a mock cell in Peavey Plaza, downtown Minneapolis, and remained there through the night, the next day, and well into the second night. Over the course of the two days, "guards" monitored the cell while Amnesty International volunteers distributed leaflets and detailed actions to passersby.

Her goal was simple: To remind people that for over five years, about 500 people from over 35 countries have been held without charge or trial, without contact with their families or their lawyers, without any recourse to the courts, at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

During the event, roughly 500 informational flyers and several detailed actions & case sheets were distributed.

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guantanamo_flyer.pdf (96 KB) - Download the flyer summarizing Amnesty's concerns about US facilities at Guantanamo Bay.

If you or your Amnesty group is interested in using this flyer for similar actions, we would be happy to tweak our source file or provide it to you. Just contact Group 37 here.

guantanamo_release.pdf (116 KB) - Download the press release distributed before the event.