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Time to Take Action about the Guantánamo Hunger Strike
The LGC held the first demonstration anywhere about the current hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay on 17 March outside the US Embassy in London. While the US Department of Defense currently puts the number of hunger strikers at half of the 166 prisoners still held there and the mainstream media decided that it would only acknowledge the hunger strike more than 2 months after it started when military violence entered the picture on 13 April, the LGC has supported the position of the prisoners' lawyers throughout this non-violent protest, that since 6 February, almost all the prisoners have been on hunger strike
The LGC has held further actions, including a "hunger games" action to raise awareness of the issue and highlight the mainstream media's failure to do so across London on 6 April.
The LGC also held a solidarity demonstration on 18 April in response to the reports of violence that emerged on 13 April. At this demonstration, we were joined by Medea Benjamin from US organisation Code Pink and the 20 or so people attending held a discussion on what WE can do about the hunger strike. Many people have already raised this question to us.
http://londonguantanamocampaign.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/time-to-take-action-about-guantanamo.html