Since September 11th, 779 men and boys have been held at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay, mostly without trial.
And T-Mobile is helping Guantánamo stay open by providing phone service to this site of human rights abuse.
Every prisoner there has been Muslim, and the Islamophobic abuse they received included U.S. soldiers desecrating Qurans and force feedings during Ramadan.
T-Mobile has proclaimed itself a leader among corporations "committing to racial justice". Call on the telecom company to live up to its values.
Tell T-Mobile: Cancel all Guantánamo contracts now.
Both Obama and Biden pledged to shut down the prison, but after ten years, dozens remain detained indefinitely at Guantánamo.
Detainees have are largely the survivors of CIA torture, subjected to brutal interrogation techniques that included sleep deprivation, stress positions, waterboarding, and more.
T-Mobile champions itself for holding anti-racist values and they have acted before on the right side of justice. In June 2020, CEO Mike Sievert said the company would no longer run ads on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show due to his persistent racism. During the 2020 uprising following the murder of George Floyd, their VP Jon Frier stated: "Allies have realized that it’s not enough to not be racist. You have to actually be anti-racist…Being neutral is actually part of the problem.”
So if enough of us call on T-Mobile to stop keeping a prison that, the ACLU has said, is a global "symbol of racial and religious injustice”, it will listen.
Demand T-Mobile end all Guantánamo Base contracts now.
When members like you take action about prisons, we can win.
SumOfUs members signed petitions and stormed public meetings to push the Canadian Pension Plan to divest private prison companies GeoGroup and CoreCivic for their roles in supporting Trump’s border policy, we won. And in 2020, SumOfUs members like you helped launch a campaign calling on TD Bank to divest GEO Group, we won within 24 hours promising to recommit to never investing in GEO again.
Sign the petition calling on T-Mobile to stop providing services to Guantánamo.
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