#GTMO200 Twitter storm Package!
ATTENTION!!!!!
** DO NOT BEGIN TWEETING UNTIL 13:00 EST/ 12:00 CST/
18:00 BST/ 19:00 CET **
Objective:
Raise awareness through social media that the current
Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has now reached the 200-day mark. The mainstream
media has overlooked the seriousness of the issue and the US government has
responded with increased violence and repression of prisoners held without
charge and trial for almost 12 years.
Date & Time: Sunday, 25 August: 13:00 EST/ 12:00 CST/ 18:00 BST/ 19:00 CET
Length: 1 hour
Instructions:
Copy + Paste these tweets. Do NOT retweet, the hashtag will
not trend.
If you are writing your own tweets, make sure to include the
#GTMO200 hashtag!
Suggested Tweets:
#GTMO200 @BarackObama close Guantanamo or give back your
Nobel peace prize
#GTMO200 Guantanamo is a crime against humanity
#GTMO200 200 days of #GitmoHungerStrike – how has it come to
this?
#GTMO200 @barackobama show us a change we can believe in -
shut down Guantanamo, make good on your promises
#GTMO200 @David_Cameron @FCOHumanRights why is #ShakerAamer still
held without charge or trial at #Guantanamo after
almost 12 years?
#GTMO200 having lunch with @BarackObama at #Guantanamo
these days ain't no picnic #closegitmo
pic.twitter.com/Mk6z4PKlG5” #London
#GTMO200 "‘US support for human rights merely a show’ –
relatives of Yemeni Gitmo detainee" http://rt.com/news/gitmo-detainee-yemen-relatives-244/
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 Adnan Latif deceased hunger striker died due to
"Widespread Breakdown of Safeguards at Gitmo" http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/07/20137324426228887.html
#GTMO200 hunger strikes can lead to long-term health
problems, organ failure and fatalities #GitmoHungerStrike #CAHungerStrike
#GTMO200 “Guards are sexually assaulting me, says the last
Briton in Guantanamo Bay” #ShakerAamer http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/guards-are-sexually-assaulting-me-says-the-last-briton-in-guantanamo-bay-8740739.html
#GTMO200 ‘#Gitmo is Killing Me’ #SamirMoqbel http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=0
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 ‘I will not eat until they restore my dignity.’
#SamirMoqbel http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=0
#GTMO200 ‘I have never been charged with any crime. I have
never received a trial.’ #SamirMoqbel #Gitmo http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=0
#GTMO200 ‘I can’t describe how painful it is to be force-fed
this way.’ #SamirMoqbel #GitmoHungerStrike http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=0
#GTMO200 ‘I would not wish this cruel punishment upon
anyone.’ #SamirMoqbel #GitmoHungerStrike http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?_r=0
#GTMO200 'I hope that because of the pain we are
suffering,the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantánamo before it is
too late.'
#GTMO200 ‘Death is Preferable to Life at Obama’s Guantanamo’
http://www.marjoriecohn.com/2013/05/death-is-preferable-to-life-at-obamas.html
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 hunger strikes can kill: 8 of 9 deaths of prisoners
at #Guantanamo were
previous hunger strikers,died in "suspicious circumstances"
#GTMO200 @BarackObama ‘I don't want these individuals to
die’… so I will force feed them instead #GitmoHungerStrike #CAHungerStrike
#GTMO200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-23583123
Grandmother's hunger strike for Guantanamo Bay's #ShakerAamer @widowsforpeace
#GTMO200 'I am meant to sleep on concrete, and when I say
alone, I mean alone in a very lonely world' #ShakerAamer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319550/Guantanamo-Bay-British-inmate-Shaker-Aamer-describes-torture-humiliation.html
#GTMO200 ‘When you’ve not eaten for two months or
more, having any food sit around in the cell is pure torture’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319550/Guantanamo-Bay-British-inmate-Shaker-Aamer-describes-torture-humiliation.html
#GTMO200 #ShakerAamer ‘I often quote 1984 by George Orwell
‘Torture is for torture, the System is for the System.’’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319550/Guantanamo-Bay-British-inmate-Shaker-Aamer-describes-torture-humiliation.html
#GTMO200 ‘I do sometimes worry that I am going to die in
here.’ #ShakerAamer http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2319550/Guantanamo-Bay-British-inmate-Shaker-Aamer-describes-torture-humiliation.html
#GTMO200 Gitmo hunger striker: 'What more can they do to
me?' http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/26/world/europe/uk-guantanamo-hunger-shaker-aamer
#ShakerAamer
#GTMO200 PJ Harvey Releases New Track 'Shaker Aamer' for
Guantanamo Detainee http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pj-harvey-releases-new-track-shaker-aamer-for-guantanamo-detainee-20130804
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 PJ Harvey’s Harrowing & Brilliant Protest Song
in Support of Guantanamo Prisoner Shaker Aamer http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/08/07/pj-harveys-harrowing-brilliant-protest-song-in-support-of-shaker-aamer/
#GTMO200 @FrankieBoyle goes on hunger strike to support
#ShakerAamer - the last British detainee in Guantánamo Bay http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/frankie-boyle-goes-on-hunger-strike-to-support-shaker-aamer--the-last-british-detainee-in-guantnamo-bay-8720221.html
#GTMO200 @FrankieBoyle hunger strike in support of
#ShakerAamer http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23389757
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 Judge: Only @BarackObama has the power to end the
force feeding at #Guantanamo #GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 #ThankManning for the#Guantanamo Files www.wikileaks.org/gitmo
#GTMO200 #NabilHadjarab, un triste anniversaire: a birthday
while on hunger strike http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/Nabil-Hadjarab-un-triste-anniversaire-522209
#GTMO200 Guantánamo Bay: the US was dead wrong, but no one
can admit it #JohnGrisham http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/12/john-grisham-guantanamo-bay-us-wrong
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 Obama a failli ; la France, elle, faillit : le cas
de #NabilHadjarab http://www.newsring.fr/monde/250-fermer-guantanamo-obama-a-t-il-failli/48689-obama-a-failli-la-france-elle-failli-le-cas-de-nabil-hadjarab
#GTMO200 @BarackObama this is a hunger strike, not
Weightwatchers; it’s not about the numbers, it’s the years of indefinite
detention & torture
#GTMO200 don’t forget the prisoners on hunger strike at
#Guantanamo and in #California #GitmoHungerStrike #CAHungerStrike
#GTMO200 more than half of remaining 166 #Guantanamo
prisoners cleared for release – why not let them go home?
#GTMO200 in almost 12 years of #Guantanamo, only a handful
of charges and even less convictions and even those can be appealed
#GTMO200 @BarackObama you know #Guantanamo is not working,
so why not close it down?
#GTMO200 200 Days of Shame http://onesmallwindow.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/100-days-of-shame/
#GTMO200 This little girl’s father is also on hunger strike
in Iraq http://onesmallwindow.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/starved-of-justice-in-iraq-american-prisoner-on-hunger-strike/
#GTMO200 the system ain’t work and the hunger strike has now
spread to #California #GitmoHungerStrike #CAHungerStrike
#GTMO200 @BarackObama do you even know what the
#GitmoHungerStrikers’ demands are?
#GTMO200 They are artists of torture, They are artists of
pain and fatigue, They are artists of insults and humiliation - #Adnan Latif
1/3
#GTMO200 Where is the world to save us from torture? Where
is the world to save us from the fire and sadness? - #AdnanLatif 2/3
#GTMO200 Where is the world to save the hunger strikers? -
#AdnanLatif 3/3
#GTMO200 #AdnanLatif died at #Guantanamo September 2012,
former hunger striker http://witnesstorture.org/survivors/adnan-farhan-abdul-latif/
#GTMO200 Shock video ft. Mos Def re-enacts gruesome
Gitmo-style force-feeding http://rt.com/news/gitmo-forced-feeding-video-846/
@mosdefofficial
#GTMO200 Mos Def Force-Fed Gitmo
Detainee Style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK6syRI7R20
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 Yasiin Bey (aka Mos
Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure – video http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/jul/08/mos-def-force-fed-guantanamo-bay-video
#GTMO200 How we marked 100 days of the #GitmoHungerStrike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_5YQv9KjB4
#GTMO200 100 days ago…outside US Embassy #London http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll2Fi36bIz4
#GTMO200 @chunkymark on the #GitmoHungerStrike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhuqkjJ4FcI
#GTMO200 Still Starving for Justice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AONNMwej8Yk
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 How we marked 3 months of the
#GitmoHungerStrike…now day 200!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW_vq20W-k4
#GTMO200 speaking on day 100 of #GitmoHungerStrike this
little girl’s father is still on hunger strike in Iraq http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtOpPRm9CKU
#GTMO200 And what about the prisoners at #Bagram
@BarackObama?
#GTMO200 The hunger strike song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKFqCI6bIs0
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 @BarackObama end the hunger strike & #closegitmo
#GTMO200 that’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into
@BarackObama #GitmoHungerStrike #CAHungerStrike
#GTMO200 force feeding is torture, says the UN http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/02/guantanamo-bay-force-feeding-inhuman-un
#GTMO200 almost 12 years without charge or trial &
indefinite detention? This is a hostage crisis
#GTMO200 @BarackObama the prisoners at #Guantanamo who you
hold without charge or trial or evidence have families too
#GTMO200 Guantánamo Bay 'is a two-finger salute to the rest
of the world' http://wp.me/p2xnH0-3S
#GitmoHungerStrike
#GTMO200 How we marked 100 days of the #GitmoHungerStrike in
the UK: http://londonguantanamocampaign.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/britains-got-compassion-round-up-of.html
#GTMO200 Revised Guantanamo force-feed policy exposed http://www.aljazeera.com/humanrights/2013/05/201358152317954140.html
#GitmoHungerStrike
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Why this Twitter storm?
Saturday 25 August marks day 200 of the current hunger
strike at Guantánamo Bay. A protest that started in February 2013 against
worsening conditions of detention and perpetual indefinite detention without charge
or trial that has already lasted almost 12 years for almost all the prisoners,
the response was first denial, followed by repression and torture, through the
use of solitary confinement, the removal of personal items from cells,
beatings, physical searches tantamount to rape, the use of plastic bullets,
force feeding by nasal tube and other forms of disproportionate pressure
against debilitated prisoners.
While the number of prisoners reported to be on hunger
strike more than six months later has fallen to around 40, with several dozen
being force fed, this does not mean that the hunger strike is any closer to
ending. Promises made by President Obama to look into the issue and the
detention of prisoners again have yet to produce any concrete results three
months later. Although he recently appointed an official within the State
Department to look into the release of prisoners, he had fired the person he
had previously chosen to do this job in 2009 a week before this year’s hunger
strike started.
Many people are still unaware of this hunger strike and the mainstream
media has played down its importance, focusing mainly on the process of force
feeding and the use of force and less on the reasons for the hunger strike and
the prisoners’ legitimate demand to know why they are still held there after
almost 12 years without any charges against them or prospects of release.
Hunger strikes can be fatal and cause long-term serious health problems.
Please join us to raise awareness and show solidarity with
the Guantánamo hunger strikers. Follow us on Twitter @shutguantanamo
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