Close Guantanamo NOW Rally

Start: Wednesday, January 11, 2023• 4:00 PM

End: Wednesday, January 11, 2023• 6:00 PM

Close the US torture camp at Guantanamo NOW

Wednesday January 11

4:00 - 6:00 pm on steps of NY Public Library, 42nd Street & Fifth Avenue

Sponsored by: World Can’t Wait and World Beyond War with
Witness Against Torture; NYC War Resisters League; Peace Action NY State; Veterans for Peace NYC Chapters 34, 90 and 113; Rising Together; Brooklyn for Peace; Pax Christi New York State; NYC-DSA Anti-War Working Group; Granny Peace Brigade, Broome County Peace Action, Metro Raging Grannies; Defending Rights & Dissent. {list in formation: write info@WorldCantWait.org}

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The Bush regime set up a detention camp on Guantanamo in January 2002, designed deliberately to be out of reach of US and international laws, as part of their “war on terror." 779 Muslim men were detained, almost all held for years with no charges. 9 died there; 735 have been released without apology or reparations. 21 of the remaining have been “cleared” for release, many of those when Obama was president. 3 of the remaining are called “forever” prisoners who the government will never charge, nor release, because to do so would reveal the torture methods the government developed on them. Very few were ever found guilty of a crime, and none received legal due process.

The open violations of human and legal rights of those detained — secret “renditions,” torture by third country allies, “enhanced interrogation," via the CIA -- shocked the world; and yet, the US has upgraded Guantanamo.

We gather on the 21st anniversary of this torture camp to say:

Close Guantanamo NOW
End indefinite detention without trial; allow prisoners to defend themselves
Immediate release and repatriation to join their families for 21 men who have been “cleared” for years
Health care & financial support for those men who have been “freed” but unjustly denied years of their lives through detention outside the law

This event will benefit the Guantanamo Survivors Fund which provides money for medical care, rent, language classes, tuition, and job training for those prisoners "freed" but left without resources after being unjustly detained by the US.
>> Bring cash/checks or make donations on line at the rally.

Join us to hear from experts on the prisoner’s situation, to participate in street theater and song.

Outdoors on the street. Steps are accessible by ramp

Additional Sponsors

World Beyond War

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