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Home » Projects and Campaigns » Guantanamo & Military Commissions
| The Place for Justice
by Barbara Fyfe & Jim Fyfe
November 25th, 2009
Op Ed in the News and Observer by Jim & Barb Fyfe -
We have watched the cases of the accused become clouded by secrecy and tainted by the last administration's disregard for the law. We, and many other 9/11 family members, support the Obama administration's decision to move these cases to federal courts where they can finally move forward instead of being caught up in the legal obstacles of the Guantanamo fiasco... |
| An Open Letter to Congress
November 18th, 2009
We, who have most acutely felt the effects of the greatest terrorist attacks on US soil, ask our Congress to reject legislative language that will bar Guantanamo detainees accused of terrorism from traveling to and being incarcerated in this country. |
| On Trying Guantanamo Detainees in the Federal Courts.
November 17th, 2009
We, the members of September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, support the Attorney General's decision to bring the trials of the five individuals currently accused of plotting the attacks of Sept 11, 2001 to a New York federal court... |
| True Justice and the Rule of Law
by Colleen Kelly
June 26th, 2009
...Justice requires a system that is fair and factual; not based at all on emotion. 9-11 family members have every right to be emotional - angry, enraged, and grief stricken. I'm certain that staff who met with family members two weeks ago got a taste of that emotion. We lost people we loved dearly. But justice requires that our legal system turn a blind eye to that emotion, and try an accused individual based on evidence and factual account... |
| Peaceful Tomorrows Member Joins other 9/11 Relatives Meeting with President Obama
February 6th, 2009
Valerie Lucznikowska, a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows will Join other 9/11 Relatives In Meeting with President Obama at the White House to Discuss Closing Guantanamo. Ms. Lucznikowska will be delivering a letter signed by over 100 people who lost relatives on 9/11 who support the President's actions to shut down Guantanamo. |
 | The War on What, Now?
by Eric Leinung
January 28th, 2009
In her book, The Dark Side, Jane Mayer recounts how the so-called “War on Terror” quickly became a challenge to American values. Mayer states that when it came to “fighting to liberate the world from Communism, Fascism, and Nazism, and working to ameliorate global ignorance & poverty, America had done more than any nation on Earth in the name of human rights.” She claims that, in the past seven years, the country has moved further from that sentiment than it has during any point in history. |
| New York Close Guantanamo Vigil
by Talat Hamdani
January 14th, 2009
Speech by Talat Hamdani at Amnesty International and ACLU Vigil in New York
"...America has lost all moral standing in the world because of the Bush administration's policies of detention and torture at GITMO, and Abu Ghraib. Thousands of Muslim males have been incarcerated since 9-11. The oldest detainee is 95 yrs old, and the youngest was 13 when arrested. This is racial and religious profiling and then the media ask me:
Why do the Muslims hate America? |
| Close Guantanamo Vigil, Boston, MA
by Terry Rockefeller
January 14th, 2009
Speech by Terry Rockefeller at Amnesty International and ACLU Vigil in Boston, MA
"...After 7 years, we have a legacy of extraordinary renditions and torture that may make it impossible for those responsible for the 9/11 attacks to ever be brought to justice. And at the same time, many falsely accused, innocent people have been swept up in this corrupt and malignant system, detained without due process, denied fair trials, their lives ruined in ways from which they may never recover..." |
| Close Guantanamo in the First 100 Days
by Valerie Lucznikowska
January 11th, 2009
...After that happened I wanted two things – justice and safety. Guantanamo... and the use of torture itself, have not served to make us safer. These practices have disgusted people all over the world and turned them away from us. Worse, they have energized deep-seated resentments and created new dangers. |
 | In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts
by Valerie Lucznikowska
September 17th, 2008
Some critics have argued that federal criminal courts are simply not equipped to handle the challenges posed by international terrorism cases. Some endorse the use of the military commissions or creating “national security courts,” or detention without charges or trials.
Human Rights First holds that the federal criminal courts offer the best line of judicial defense against extremist terrorism. |
| 9/11 Victims' Families Send Letter Decrying Politicization Of Guantánamo Military Commissions
Many of us learned for the first time this week that only one relative of a 9/11 victim was invited to attend the proceedings at Guantánamo Bay. The Defense Department’s belated disclosure that only a staunch supporter of this administration and the military commission system, was secretly invited to attend the arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is but the latest example of a covert, politicized military commission system that has little hope of bringing any legitimate outcome. |
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