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<H2 style="TEXT-INDENT: 0in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 0in"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 22pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"> You are invited to the Militant Labor Forum<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></H2>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">Close all <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> detention camps around the world!<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">The links between the growing <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> prison population and military detention camps<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000 face="Times New Roman">The administration of <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> president Barack Obama has said it will close the infamous prison camp at the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> naval base in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Guantánamo Bay</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Cuba</st1:country-region></st1:place>. In recent years that prison has come to be seen as a symbol for the brutal treatment and torture the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> rulers dish out to detainees worldwide—many of whom were simply swept up by the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> military, FBI, or CIA. The decision to close the Guantánamo prison reflects the political liability it has become for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place>. </FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>At the same time the Obama administration insists that the thousands of prisoners from around the world being held at the detention camp at the U.S.-run Bagram Air Base in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place> can be jailed indefinitely without charges and have no right to challenge their detention. </FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT color=#000000> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: black">An increasing layer of working people in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region> can identify with those in <st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State>’s prisons abroad as the number of workers behind bars within <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> borders continues to grow. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> ruling class is trying to set a precedent with its detention practices as they prepare for the class battles they know will come with capitalism’s economic and social crises. This is why working people everywhere should demand that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Washington</st1:State></st1:place> close its prison camps now and end arbitrary detentions! <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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