(photo from May Day parade in Minneapolis)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 21st, 2007
Contact: Natalie Morrison for immediate release
Cell: 651-343-1246
email: [email protected]
Madison Impeachment Coalition and Impeachforpeace.org Madison sponsor street theatre to protest torture
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 23, 24, and 25, between 11:00am and 1:00pm, concerned citizens organized by The Madison Impeachment Coalition and Impeachforpeace.org of Wisconsin will gather in front of the Madison Memorial Library at 728 State Street. Demonstrators will make a powerful visual statement that will bring home the ongoing, heinous acts of torture inflicted on thousands of human beings throughout the world in the name of Americans.
Dressed in the Guantanamo standard of orange jumpsuits, black hoods and chains, demonstrators will be subjected to acts of “torture” by “soldiers” in fatigues. The demonstrators will call for basic human rights, the right of Habeas Corpus, and the protections of the Geneva Conventions.
For three days in a row, using unforgettable images, the demonstrators hope to prompt the hundreds of Madisonians walking through campus during the lunch hour to remember that the Bush Administration is defying U.S. and international laws against torture, disregarding and subverting the Constitution and our Bill of Rights, and showing contempt for human rights and the will of the American people. Demonstrators also hope to remind observers that the majority of Americans support impeachment and accountability for these crimes.
“All elected officials who do not honor their oaths “˜to support and/or defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic’ will be publicized and held accountable,” stated Natalie Morrison, Founder of ImpeachForPeace.org Madison. “If they wish to be complicit in these crimes, we do not want them to work for us.”
Who: Residents of Madison, WI; members of Madison Impeachment Coalition and Impeachforpeace.org Madison
Where: 728 State Street, in front of the Madison Memorial Library
When: Monday, July 23rd through Wednesday, July 25, between 11:00am and 1:00pm
For more information: [email protected]; impeachforpeace.org Madison, WI; Buzz Davis, Cell#: 608-239-5354