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Close Guantánamo protest outside the White House, Jan, 11. 2016

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Close Guantánamo protest outside the White House, Jan, 11. 2016

On January 11, 2016, I was outside the White House, as I have been on January 11 every year since 2011, calling for the closure of the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, representing Close Guantánamo, the campaign and website I set up four years ago with the US attorney Tom Wilner, as part of an annual protest organized by numerous rights groups, including Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Witness Against Torture.

I also brought with me the giant inflatable figure of Shaker Aamer that was at the heart of the We Stand With Shaker campaign I co-founded with the activist Joanne MacInnes in November 2014, which helped to secure the release of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, in October 2015.

For my US tour, see: http://bitly.com/213c9mk…

For video of me speaking outside the White House, see: youtu.be/bpOK7IhdbPY

Also see me on Democracy Now! with Roger Waters launching my new initiative, the Countdown to Close Guantánamo: http://bitly.com/213caqj…

And see me singing my “Song for Shaker Aamer” here: youtu.be/F_Ct5qbiuDw

For Close Guantánamo and the Countdown to Close Guantánamo, see: http://bitly.com/1KPKfGg

For We Stand With Shaker, see: westandwithshaker.org/

For Witness Against Torture, see: http://bitly.com/213caqn

For my most interesting photos, see: http://bitly.com/1PDS1AM…

Northern Home for Friendless Children by Library Company of Philadelphia

Philadelphia: Robert Newell, ca. 1868. View from across the road in front of the Northern Home for Friendless Children, located between 22nd, 23rd Streets, Brown and Parrish Streets. Designed by Samuel Sloan and constructed by John Stewart, the Home opened in 1854. The organization of the Northern Home for Friendless Children was formed to provided housing and education for orphaned children in 1853 and later became Northern Children’s Services.
P.2011.47.1346

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Bishops of the A.M.E. Church by Library Company of Philadelphia

Commemorative print commissioned by the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in commemoration of the nation’s centennial and the church’s 160th anniversary. Contains a central portrait of First Bishop Richard Allen surrounded by portaits of ten church bishops and six titled vignettes depicting important events, sites, and symbols in the history of the church. Bishops portrayed are: Morris Brown; William Paul Quinn; Daniel A. Payne; Jabez A. Campbell; Thomas M.D. Ward; John M. Brown; James A. Shorter; Alexander W. Wayman; Willis Nazrey; and Edward Waters. P.9508

Engraving, c. 1876

Link to record on ImPAC, the Library Company’s digital collections catalog: lcpdams.librarycompany.org:8881/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&a…

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David Livingstone, 1813 – 1873. Missionary and explorer by National Galleries of Scotland Commons

Thomas Annan

1864

Accession no. PGP 74.2
Medium Carbon print
Size 36.90 x 30.20 cm
Credit Gift by T & R Annan and Sons, 1930

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