October 2024 Group 37 Meeting

Sunday, October 20, 2024 | 2:00pm to 4:00pm CDT

IN-PERSON

First Congregational Church 
500 SE 8th Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55414

ZOOM

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84898872899?pwd=elc4eWdEZVI2dFlWb2NZTVN4RzUzZz09

Meeting ID: 848 9887 2899
Passcode: 680930

Meeting Notes and Agenda

Google Doc - Group 37 Meeting Agenda

Regular Meeting 2-3pm CDT

Introductions - Letter Writing action - be ready to write!

News/Events

IOPT - Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Close Guantanamo

Tabling

MMIW - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Death Penalty

Philippines

Lobbying

Guest Speaker - Andy Worthington

3-4pm CDT

Andy Worthington is an independent journalist, author and activist, who has been researching, writing about and campaigning to get the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed since 2006. He has worked with the United Nations, WikiLeaks, and Amnesty International, and is the co-founder of the Close Guantanamo campaign, established in 2012.

See his website here: https://www.andyworthington.co.uk

And the Close Guantanamo website here: https://www.closeguantanamo.org

Andy will discuss the history of Guantanamo and its persistent lawlessness, and will also address the current situation at the prison, where 30 men are still held. 16 of these men have long been approved for release by high-level US government review processes, three are "forever prisoners" - still held without charge or trial, and without ever having been approved for release - while the rest are caught up in the broken military commission trial system.