Mona Shaw from the Des Moines Catholic Worker House and the School for Moral Courage passed this my way from the Washington Post.
More than 24 hours after he was arrested while kneeling on the steps of the Supreme Court in an orange prisoner jumpsuit and a hood, Tim Nolan stood before a judge yesterday in D.C. Superior Court Room 202 and said the word he'd come to Washington to say:
"Fazaldad."
Nolan, of Asheville, N.C., was one of 75 people arrested Friday -- the sixth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison -- for illegally protesting at the Supreme Court. Sixty-seven members of the group were held until late yesterday, most because they wouldn't give their real names and instead identified themselves by the names of Guantanamo detainees.
As the protesters were led, one after the other, before Judge Robert I. Richter to be charged, all stated their real names and added, "I am here on behalf of . . ." -- then named one of the 275 suspected terrorists held at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba. More
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