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http://www.masslive.com/news/index.s...egory=Politics

From news article:
AMHERST -Town Meeting this fall will consider only one citizen petition - a resolution to help in the resettlement of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp detainees in Cuba.
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Part of the resolution urges Congress to repeal the ban allowing resettlement in this country. The resolution asks the town to assist in the safe resettlement of cleared detainees in the area once that happens. It is being brought to the meeting by a group called No More Guantanamos, said Town Meeting member Ruth F. Hooke.

She said the group has been working with lawyers and has two particular detainees in mind - one from Russia and from Algeria - who they would like to aid.
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Hooke said the town has welcomed many refugees in the past from such places as El Salvador and Guatemala.

About 50 detainees have never been charged and have been cleared for release but are unable to go home because they would be persecuted or killed, she said.

The petition was signed by 140 registered voters - the signatures of 100 voters are needed for the petition article. She said organizers could have collected more signatures, but didn't want to overburden staff having to verify them.

Town Meeting member Larry J. Kelley said he'd want to "see in triplicate" that the detainees are in fact cleared and "if they're cleared and innocent then I'd have no problem" with resettlement here.

He said that there was some overreaction after the Sept. 11 attacks "and if they got swept up" in that and "they're innocent, I'll actually support it (the resolution.)"