Justice fasters at Holder AG hearing
Thu, 01/15/2009 - 10:27am
A small group of "Fast for Justice" participants were inside the Eric Holder Attorney General Hearing, carrying small "TORTURE IS A CRIME" and "WATERBOARDING IS A CRIME" signs. Code Pink folks were also in the audience.
AP: Obama's AG pick breaks from Bush on torture, GTMO:
"Waterboarding is torture," said Holder, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to run the Justice Department.
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The answer also sent a wave of approval through the public viewing gallery where protesters, dressed in orange prison scrubs like those worn by detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, held signs calling for an end to torture.

AP photo: Media Benjamin and the Code Pink folks, with justice fasters in orange behind them.
Most of the other fasters in DC processed to the Russell Senate Office Building and stood outside during part of the hearings.

Photo by faster Nancy Mancias: Vigil outside the Senate.
We later went inside and talked with visitors and staff, and shouted at a few senators.
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