“President Biden should decide to ending what former President Obama didn’t do: placing an finish to this human rights atrocity by instantly transferring detainees not charged with crimes to nations the place their human rights shall be revered, offering honest trials to anybody charged, with out resort to the dying penalty, and at last shuttering this discriminatory and illegal detention facility as soon as and for all.” […]
On January 11, 2021 Amnesty Worldwide launched a report highlighting ongoing and historic human rights violations on the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, as detentions there entered their twentieth yr and as a brand new President ready to enter the White Home. The report referred to as for renewed urgency on this concern, accompanied by a real dedication to fact, accountability and treatment, in addition to a recognition that indefinite detention at Guantánamo should not be allowed to persist any longer.
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“You may be for the rule of legislation or you possibly can vote to acquit Mr. Trump. However you possibly can’t be for each.”
~~Michael McFaul (Feb. 11, 2021)
On this date at Day by day Kos in 2004—Pure and Easy: Equal Rights:
Thirty years in the past this month, Proper-to-Life activists in Boulder, Colorado—scurrilously egged on by the native, chain-owned day by day newspaper—challenged one of many nation’s earliest tendrils of what they referred to as the “homosexual agenda.”
Then, as now, the homosexual agenda was a quintessential American agenda— the acquisition of equal authorized safety by yet one more group of our nation’s second-class residents. At concern in Boulder was not homosexual marriage or civil union, however one other fundamental proper: non-discrimination in employment. Shortly earlier than Christmas, 1973, the nine-member metropolis council—with its two-year-old liberal majority on the helm—handed one of many first 4 or 5 such ordinances within the U.S. Some homosexual activists and progressives to the left of the council had wished one thing extra: a clause proscribing non-discrimination in lodging.
The laws was initiated by Mayor Penfield Tate II, elected by the unpaid council as the primary Black mayor in Colorado historical past, chosen in a metropolis with lower than 2% African-People. A lesbian acquaintance advised Tate she had been fired particularly due to her sexual orientation. Tate knew about injustice first-hand. And he noticed the matter fairly merely: an abrogation of the constitutional proper of each American to not be legally diminished for background or perception or biology.
