Kevin over at BlogSchmog informed me (via twitter) of a creative petition drive from Amnesty International call TearItDown.org.

Rather than simply sign an online petition, the site will take away one of the 500,000 pixels of the image and assign it to you. I was the 82,823rd signer of the petition. Here is some more info from BlogSchmog:
Share ThisThe pixels belong to an image on the front page of the web site. The photo was staged—owing to the difficulty in obtaining any pictures from Gitmo, let alone ones capturing abuse—but the facts about the facility are real:
* There are approximately 355 people in custody.
* The approximate size of a cell is 52 square feet. Tall people could lie down in one direction but not another.
* Hundreds of people have been held for over 2000 days without charge or trial.
* 55% of detainees have not committed any hostile acts against the United States.
* 8% of detainees are characterized as Al Qaeda fighters.
* 66% of detainees were captured by Pakistani authorities, the result of a bounty campaign that paid for arrests.
* Ten people in Gitmo have been charged with a crime.
* There were 350 incidents of self-harm in Guantanamo Bay in 2003, including 120 “hanging gestures.”The first detainees arrived on January 11, 2002.






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