Today, Jan 11 at 11:00 a.m. SLT the American Civil Liberties Union is holding a launch event in Second Life related to their Close Guantánamo campaign. The new SL space, called "Gone GITMO" is intended to focus attention on the detention of prisoners and the conditions at Camp X-Ray. ACLU's program incorporates a virtual Guantánamo program begun last September by Nonny de la Pena and Peggy Weil, a joint effort of USC Institute of Media Literacty and Seton Hall Law School of Law.
This virtual launch coincides with the sixth anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo, and several real world demonstrations in Washington, DC, Boston, Philadelphia and Boise, ID; protests in San Francisco and Tampa; a discussion in Pittsburgh; a vigil in Raleigh, NC; and a rally in St. Louis, according to the ACLU press release.
Second Life location is Progressive Island: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Progressive%20Island/135/152/35/
More information and a schedule of events is at the campaign web site.
January 11, 2008
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