Not Another Broken Promise! Not Another Day in Guantanamo!
On May 23rd 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 Washington DC, New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Hawaii, Germany, London, Sydney and in many more communities around the world to urge President Obama and Congress to end indefinite detention and close the detention facility at Guantánamo.
Albany, New York
Where: Townsend Park (bordered by Henry Johnson Blvd and Central Ave)
When: May 23, 12PM
Contact Linda LeTendre
Facebook event page
Baltimore, Maryland
Contact Amy and Ted
Boston, Massachusetts
Where: Ramsey Park to Boston Commons
When: May 23, 10:30AM-1PM
Contact Chris Spicer
Facebook event page
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo
Where: Water Tower Park
When: May 23 4:30PM
Contact Marie
Facebook event page
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Contact Deb VanPoolen
Hartford, Conneticut
TBA
Contact: Hartford Catholic Worker
Honolulu, Hawaii
World Can’t Wait
New Haven, Connecticut
Where: Federal Courthouse steps
When: May 23, 12PM
Contact Mark Colville
(203) 415-5896
Facebook event page
New York City
Where: Times Square
When: May 23, 12PM
WCW and The Blue Lantern Project
Facebook event page
Contact: witnesstorture@gmail.com
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
AmnestyUSA/OK/Group #238
Where: Penn Square Mall
1901 Northwest Expressway
When: May 23, 4:30-6PM
Contact John Walters
Facebook event page
Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts
Contact Nancy Talanian
Raleigh, North Carolina
Where: Terry Sanford Federal
New Bern Avenue and South Person ST
When: May 23, 12-1PM
Contact Beth Brockman
Facebook event page
San Francisco, California
World Can’t Wait
Tiffin, Ohio
Project Peace, Tiffin Area Pax Christi, and People for Peace & Justice Sandusky County
Contact Josie Setzler
Toledo, Ohio
Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition (NWOPC)
Contact Dakota Wolf
Tuscon, Arizona
Where: front of the Federal building on the corner of Congress and Granada
When: May 23, 4:45-5:45
Contact Dan Wilson
Washington, DC
NRCAT, Codepink, Amnesty International, TASCC, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
Where: The White House
When: May 23, 11AM
Contact Paz Artaza-Regan
Facebook event page
Worcester, Massachusetts
Noon-1pm, Lincoln Square. Sponsored by Witness Against Torture and the Saints Francis & Therese Catholic Worker community.
Contact Mike Benedetti
Faceook event page
International events:
London, England
Guantanamo London Campaign
Where: Trafalgar Square
When: May 23 12-2PM UTC
Contact Aisha
Facebook event page
Website
Mexico
TBA
When: May 23, 12PM
Contact Alicia Roush
Munich, Germany
Where: verschiedene öffentliche Plätze
When: May 23, 6PM UTC
Contact Anja Mayer
Facebook event page
Sydney, Australia
Film screening- The Road to Guantanamo with David Hicks and Rev. Graham Long.
Where: The Wayside Chapel, 29 Hughes St, Potts Point NSW 2011
When: 24th May at 2PM
Contact Aloysia
Website
Toronto, Canada
Free Omar Khadr Now campaign
Where: Young-Dundas Square
1 Dundas Street East
When: May 23, 12PM
Contact Michael Van Arragon
Facebook Event page
Details about the local actions and other resources will be available soon.
Please email witnesstorture at gmail dot com if you are planning or hoping to plan an action in your community.
Read the call to action in full.
The May 23rd Day of Action is being coordinated by Witness Against Torture in collaboration with:
Amnesty International
the Center for Constitutional Rights
World Can’t Wait
Veterans for Peace
September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
CloseGuantanamo.org
Codepink
Blue Lantern Project
London Guantánamo Campaign
Popular Resistance
No More Guantánamos
The Torture Abolition and Survivor Support
The National Religious Campaign
Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests
Project
Tiffin Area Pax Christi
People for Peace & Justice Sandusky County
Free Omar Khadr Now
The Justice Campaign
Metro New York Religious Campaign Against Torture
North Carolina Stop Torture Now
The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
Pax Christi Metro New York
AmnestyUSA/OK/Group #238
Hartford Catholic Worker
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Northwest Ohio Peace
Saints Francis & Therese Catholic Worker
