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Anti-War Activists Reflect on several days, some of whom handed Human Rights Defenders Call
in organizing events over the past
Martin Luther King Jr’s Legacy out pamphlets to passersby advocat- for Closure of Guantanamo
ing their positions on stopping all
wars and other related issues.
Among their slogans are “Stop
n Report and pictures olence and peace have inspired and Washington’s war moves toward Rus-
by Phil Pasquini
influenced people the world over. In sia and China! Stop endless US wars:
his quest of utilizing non-violence Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, Ye-
WASHINGTON: On what would as a tool for change he issued many men.... everywhere! No to NATO!
have been Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s warnings about the dangers and con- Money for human needs, not war!
94th birthday, sev- sequences of war. Not one more penny for Ukraine!”
eral ceremonies to Among them he made the pro- Citizens’ Covid Origin Inquiry
honor the fallen Civil foundly dithyrambic proclamation (covidorigins.org) addressed their
Rights Era icon and that “It is no longer a choice, my concerns over bioweapon develop-
his legacy were held friends, between violence and non- ment, especially “gain-of-function”
at the King Memo- violence. It is either nonviolence or (GoFR) research on dangerous
rial on January 17. At nonexistence.” His foreboding of pathogens. The group highlighted
the base of the massive and impos- nuclear war was summed up in 1968 King’s denouncement of bioweapon-

n By Elaine Pasquini to close the prison and torture site.
Washington, DC Activists wore orange prisoner jump-
Photos by Phil Pasquini suits and black hoods while holding
signs displaying a prisoner’s name.
WASHINGTON: Twenty-one years Since the US government
after the opening of the US detention opened the Guantanamo Bay Deten-
center at Guantana- tion Center on January 11, 2002, 779
mo Bay, activists are Muslim men and boys have been in-
still calling for its clo- carcerated there, said Herb Geraghty
sure. On January 11, of Witness Against Torture. “Since
as they do every year, then, nine of them have died.”
human rights defend- Maha Hilal, co-director of the
ers gathered in La- Justice for Muslims Collective, a
fayette Square across from the White group dedicated to closing the US

Dr King’s wisdom, impact and enduring legacy along with his espousing universal values of non-violence and peace have inspired and
influenced people the world over

ing white granite statue of Dr King, when he observed that “…our earthly ry and use of biological weapons. Dr
attendees of the various programs habitat would be transformed into an King noted in 1959 at the Thirty-sixth
reflected on his life and all that he inferno that even the mind of Dante Annual Dinner of the War Resisters
achieved before he was cut down by could not imagine.” League in New York that “…through-
an assassin’s bullet in 1968. As a national holiday, Martin out the nation and the world, we live
Dr King’s wisdom, impact and Luther King, Jr Day this year falls on in an age of conflict, an age of biologi-
enduring legacy along with his es- a Monday, creating a three-day week- cal weapons, chemical warfare, House to demand that President Joe prison in Guantanamo, noted after
pousing universal values of non-vi- end that anti-war activists have taken (Continued on page 15) Biden uphold his campaign promise (Continued on page 15)

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