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:
The 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.
I had the great pleasure of meeting and attending a workshop of Deepa Fernandes at last summer’s Allied Media Conference. Her workshop, like much of her work, focused on immigration policy and immigrant rights in the US. I have yet to meet someone as informed on immigration policy and as dedicated to immigrant rights as Deepa Fernandes. In addition to going through the immigration bureaucracy herself, Deepa emigrated to the US from Australia, she has actively engaged in her investigative reporting. Like much of the new media movement, Deepa has shrugged off the false notion of objective reporting and has been involved in the movement for humyn rights and has done much to bring light to struggles for humyn rights around the world.
As if being an award-winning documentary producer and host of Wake Up Call weren’t enough, Fernades has just published a book at Seven Stories Press called Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration. The book seems to be the extended version of the workshop i attended and i can guarantee you, if its anything near as informative as the workshop (and i’m sure its multiple times as informative), this is a book that anyone concerned about humyn rights should read. Fernandes is wonderful at highlighting the connections between humyn rights, immigration policy, homeland security, and corporate profiteering.