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Mark Treeker, an organizer with the organization The World Can’t Wait, led a mock detainee through Sproul Plaza Monday afternoon. Participants rallied against Boalt Hall Professor John Yoo’s role in drafting U.S. legal memos that the group says led to torture in places such as Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. 

The protest was also a lead-up to a nation-wide rally the group is organizing for Nov. 2 to protest the anniversary of the re-election of George W. Bush. 

Sunsara Taylor, a national organizer with the group, said that The World Can’t Wait is asking people to walk out of their jobs and school that day and gather at rallying points in 60 sites across the country, including a noon rally at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco followed by a march. 

“People need to start putting their bodies in front of this juggernaut,” she said. “People are too willing to turn their heads and go to work like normal, go to school like normal.” 

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