Campaigners fighting for the closure of Guantanamo and the release of its prisoners, including  family members of British residents still held at Guantanamo are marking the fifth anniversary on the 11th of Januray 2007 with a protest outside the factory in Birmingham that supplied two hundred years ago to the slave trade and today supplies chains to notorious American prison at Guantanamo and other similar centres of torture and human rights abuse.

Protesters will be dressed in the infamous orange Guantanamo jump suits, ready-shackled, and will dance (or shuffle) as the band performs. A ‘birthday cake’ with a Guantánamo detainee inside will be presented to Hiatts.
 
Hiatts manufacture the shackles used by the US military in the notorious Guantánamo Bay over the last 5 years. Hiatts’ has never missed a business opportunity in over 200 years from supplying “nigger collars” to the slave trade to shackles used during torture to various unsavoury regimes.  

Please join us in the protest. We will update the information as plans for the protest are finalised including transport from various cities of England to the protest.

Assembly point for the protest  Junction of Rocky Lane and Baltimore Road 1.30pm 11th January 2007Arrive : 2 pm at Hiatts Factory A presentation of the Hiatts achievement
                           as supplier to the slave trade and now to the torture trade 


Protest will be followed by a meeting and some refreshment at the University of Central England.

Click Here Directions to the Meeting venue Attwood Building Room 040

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