Bassist,
vocalist, composer and bandleader Esperanza Spalding has just
released “We Are America,” a new music video highlighting the injustice
of prolonged indefinite detention at the prison at Guantánamo
Bay:
Spalding
says she was motivated by nagging concerns that grew as she was on tour
with her band. “It was the first time I heard about the hunger strike. I
was touring in Europe, and I was appalled and embarrassed about what
was happening.
When I returned home, I remember I started researching online to see
what I could do about it, and I saw that I could download this action
pack. With that you had some important info to use to call your
representative. And I did, I did call my representative
and Senators. In fact, I got a letter back from one Senator who
basically said that she was not going to proactively deal with it but
that they would ‘keep my comments in mind', or something like that. But I
really wanted to do more. And my band actually came
to me first and said they wanted to do something too.”
Read Spalding’s guest editorial in the LA Times:
Next
week, the U.S. Senate can take a major step toward closing Guantanamo
by passing this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). To
email your Senators now and tell them to vote “No” on any amendments to
the Guantanamo provisions
in the NDAA:
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