NoMoreVictims Held a Special Evening on Tuesday, March 14th with Medea Benjamin – Global Exchange, Code Pink Blase Bonpane – Office of the Americas, KPFK Cole Miller – NoMoreVictims Alan Pogue - NoMoreVictims, Veterans For Peace Faiza Al-Araji - Iraqi Engineer, writes a blog called “A Family in Baghdad” Chad Hetman - Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace Hector Aristizabal - Theater of the Oppressed Jane Bright - Gold Star Families For Peace To raise money for NoMoreVictims and Alaa' Kahlid Hamdan and her father, Khalid Hamdan Abd Alaa’ is a 3-year old Iraqi girl who was blinded in a US mortar attack on her home in May of 2005
JUST FOUR DAYS before the Bush administration named John G. Roberts Jr. to fill retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court, the District of Columbia federal appeals court decided a case called Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. In a crucial victory for the administration, the court upheld President Bush's creation of special military tribunals for trials of alleged terrorists and denied them the protection of the Geneva Convention. Roberts was one of the judges who decided that case, but he should have recused himself.
Alert 3/14/05: Stop Detention Abuses, Cover-Up (tags)
Action Alert March 14, 2005: Nine Days After Assault on Immigration Detainee at San Pedro: Attacker Still on Duty; Detainee Punished with Transfer, Segregation
Immigration Detainees Abused in San Pedro (tags)
On March 5 at the San Pedro detention center, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent M. Lopez attacked Iranian immigration detainee Mohammed Mirmehdi, dragged him into a storage room and repeatedly punched and choked him.