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Audio: Procession to mark seven years of detention and torture at Guantanamo

Tue, 01/13/2009 - 1:38am

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Audio from the January 11 event. Beginning of a nine-day fast for an end to torture. Speakers are Michael Macleod-Ball, chief legislative and policy counsel for the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office; Njambi Good, the Campaign Director for Amnesty International’s Counter Terror with Justice project and Valerie Lucznikowska, with September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. MC is Frida Berrigan.