Next week is the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the torture prison at Guantanamo. There are several events if you would like to participate in protesting the continuation of the prison:
Thursday January 11: 22 years since the Bush/Cheney regime set up the U.S. torture
camp on Guantanamo, to imprison people outside the law. We demand it be closed now! Join us in
cities across the U.S.
Join Vigils and
Rallies Across the U.S. January 10, 11, 12 and 13
Sponsors: World Can’t Wait,
Amnesty International US, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Victims
of Torture, CloseGuantanamo.org, CODEPINK, Muslim Counterpublics Lab, National
Religious Campaign Against Torture, No More Guantanamos, September 11th Families
for Peaceful Tomorrows, Witness Against Torture.
We will protest this terrible anniversary, knowing that even the close of the
prison will not bring justice. Mansoor
Adayfi, released in 2016 from Guantanamo, has become an
energetic and eloquent advocate for released prisoners, many of whom are still
not "home," still separated from their families, never having
received the tiniest acknowledgment of their illegitimate imprisonment, or the
means to carry on their lives. Mansoor wrote in Common Dreams.org on New Year's Day:
"...Despite the fact that the transfer out of Guantánamo was
supposed to offer survivors some reprieve from the abuse at the prison, many of
those who have been repatriated to their home country or resettled in a third
country have found themselves in either another prison or in what we call Guantánamo 2.0. Those of us who
remained in Guantánamo while our brothers were released heard shocking stories
about their predicaments. This includes Uyghur prisoners being released to a
refugee camp in Albania and having their beards forcibly shaved by the Albanian
police; a prisoner who was resettled in Slovakia and beaten by police so
severely he had to be hospitalized; and many
former prisoners who have simply disappeared
in prisons where they were abused, tortured, and killed..."
Wednesday January 10
webinar: From Gaza to Guantanamo: Resisting State Violence & Occupation
View a
presentation by Katherine Gallagher, presenter in the webinar above, to the UN
Friday January 12 webinar: Guantanamo, Where Do We Go From Here?
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