Orange Alert

The folks at Impeach for Peace are organizing a Close Guantanamo Orange Day:

Meet Friday, January 11, 2008@11:30am.

Hennepin & Lagoon Ave in Uptown, in front of the Library.

The ACLU of Minnesota and Impeach for Peace are coordinating a protest on the 6 year anniversary of the first prisoners from Afghanistan arriving at Guantanamo.

Bring Signs, tell your friends, bring your friends, wear orange! Impeach for Peace will have members wearing Guantanamo Bay Orange Jumpsuits and Black Hoods.

UPDATE: Tim from Colorado e-mails to ask:

Wow! The ACLU and Impeach For Peace are really pulling out all the stops to bring attention to Gitmo prisoners marking their 6th year of residency. Castro is coming up on his 50th anniversary in a couple years. I can't wait to see the plans the ACLU and IFP have for that "celebration".

Maybe if we stressed the literacy rates and universal medical care available at Gitmo, they'd lighten up.