Global Day Of Action To Close Guantanamo & End Indefinite Detention

By Witness Against Torture, www.witnesstorture.org

May 9, 2014
Resist!

Over 25 Cities Participating in May 23rd Day of Action

For a full listing of the over 25 cities in 5 countries participating on May 23, click here. For a Tool Kit and Resources for planning your own May 23 event, click here.

Not Another Broken Promise! Not Another Day in Guantanamo! On May 23^rd of last year, President Obama again promised to close the detention facility at Guantánamo. His pledge came in response to the mass hunger strike by men protesting their indefinite detention and to the renewed, global condemnation of the prison. One year later, far too little has changed: few detained men have left the prison and hunger strikes and forced feeding continue. Join us in over 25 cities across the US and around the world to urge President Obama and Congress to end indefinite detention and close the detention facility at Guantánamo. So far, demonstrations, fasts, and vigils are planned in Chicago, Raleigh, New York City, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Buffalo, and Boston. Please email WitnessTorture@gmail.com if you are planning or hoping to plan an action in your community. The May 23^rd Day of Action is being coordinated by Witness Against Torture in collaboration with Amnesty International, Blue Lantern Project, Center for Constitutional Rights, CloseGitmo.net, Code Pink, London Guantanamo Campaign, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition, Veterans for Peace, World Can’t Wait, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows,No More Guantanamos, and others. Contact WitnessTorture@gmail.com if your organization would like to sign-on as an endorser. Find the Facebook event listing here. Click here to read Witness Against Torture’s full Call To Action.

SAVE THE DATES – June 27-30 in Washington, DC

Join Witness Against Torture June 27-30, 2014 as we gather together in Washington, DC to commemorate Torture Awareness Month. Our time together will include public witness with members of the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition (TASSC), community building, and planning for future events. Email witnesstorture@gmail.com if you are interested in participating and/or helping to organize the gathering.

WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE FRIDAY FAST FOR JUSTICE

Please consider joining WAT’s Friday Fast for Justice. If you join the fast, we would ask you to: · Fast on Friday, in any form you like; · Make three phone calls; (click here to see who we are currently focusing our call on) · Write to a prisoner at Guantánamo. (click here for instructions on how) If you are already participating in or are interested in participating in the Friday Fast for Justice,please sign up here. You can commit to fasting on a specific Friday, on May 23^rd, the Global Day of Action to Close Guantanamo and End U.S. Torture; weekly for a particular time period; until Guantánamo is closed; or whatever works for you.