Q: What was the meaning behind those orange bracelets I saw several people wearing at the recent Academy Awards?

A: Post-Gazette staff writer Tim McNulty, who was reporting from the Oscars and also noticed the orange ribbons and rubber bracelets, said they were part of a campaign by an organization titled “World Can’t Wait” to protest torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis, who wore a ribbon while his wife, Deborah, sported a bracelet, said: “The ribbons are the color of the jumpsuits at Guantanamo Bay and our secret detention camps, where prisoners are kept indefinitely and tortured.”

The bracelets are inscribed with “Torture + silence = complicity.” You can find out more about the organization, established in 2005, at worldcantwait.com.

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