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Your gift will help No More Guantánamos build a nationwide grassroots coalition and provide them with technical support and resources with which to educate their communities about the men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; Bagram, Afghanistan; and secret offshore prisons around the world.  We help local chapters to engage their communities in a constructive dialogue about the issues and obstacles involved in closing Guantánamo Bay prison with justice.

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Press Contact:

Nancy Talanian, Director
No More Guantánamos
ntalanian@nogitmos.org
413-665-1150

Press Releases

10/26/11, Berkeley City Council Adopts Resolution Supporting Guantánamo Prison Closure and Justice for Detainees

10/14/2010
Code Pink of Berkeley urges Guantanamo Bay detainees be welcomed in Berkeley
Examiner
02/09/2011
Guantanamo Bay detainees may get invite to Berkeley
San Francisco Chronicle

Pioneer Valley No More Guantánamos

Western Massachusetts group

Location

Northampton, MA, 01060
United States
See map: Google Maps

On Wednesday, March 30, our two programs on U.S. Detention Policies a Decade After 9/11: Two Perspectives on Security drew more than 200 people.  See the story on the first presentation, at Western New England College School of Law, here.

About Guantánamo Bay Prison

“Sometimes, we just didn’t get the right folks.”

— Brigadier General Jay Hood, the top American officer in Guantanamo, to Wall Street Journal, 2005
 
On January 11, 2002, the first 20 prisoners picked up in Afghanistan arrived in Guantánamo, where the Bush administration believed they would be out of reach of U.S. courts. News photos show the men dressed in orange jumpsuits, shackled, with gloves, goggles, surgical masks and headphones for sensory deprivation.. [photo] Hundreds more prisoners followed.
 
But who are they, and were they really the so-called “worst of the worst”?
 

Our Staff

Nancy Talanian is NMG's Director.  Nancy has more than 25 years of grassroots organizing experience. Before founding and leading the organization, she founded, directed, and grew the national Bill of Rights Defense Committee from a local volunteer coalition to a national organization with a staff of five, hundreds of volunteer affiliates, and thousands of subscribers. BORDC earned national recognition through the passage of more than 400 local government resolutions and eight statewide resolutions upholding the constitutional rights of more than 85 million U.S.

North Carolina Stop Torture Now

North Carolina Stop Torture Now

Location

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Raleigh, NC, 27650
United States
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For more information about this group, visit their website.

Resources

See the menu to the left, and as your group moves forward, contact us to request other resources you would find helpful AND to share the fliers and other resources your group develops with the national No More Guantánamos community.

Sources for Researching Detainees

  • Website of Andy Worthington, author and journalist, who writes almost daily about Guantanamo issues and detainees.  He has also published a book, The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison (2007, Pluto Press)

About the No More Guantánamos (NMG) Project

The Problem

The U.S. government’s detainee policies and practices over the last seven years have denied hundreds of innocent men their freedom and have made the U.S. and the world less safe. The American public and the U.S. Congress are currently split on whether and when the Guantánamo Bay prison should be closed and what should replace it. The administration’s positive moves toward closing the prison have been threatened by counter reactions, such as bills filed in Congress to stop the closing or to outlaw the prisoners’ relocation within the U.S.